MANCHESTER, N.H
FBI agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombing have repeatedly questioned Musa Khadzhimuratov, a Chechen refugee and former separatist who says he had a social relationship with one of the bombing suspects.
Agents searched his family’s apartment here Tuesday, scouring his computers, subjecting him to a polygraph and taking a DNA sample.
The hours of FBI questioning in more than a dozen meetings illustrate the FBI’s intensive effort to identify possible accomplices and test its theory that suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were radicalized on the Web and acted alone.
Khadzhimuratov said a visit from Tamerlan Tsarnaev in March, when they drank tea and talked about family, was like their handful of previous meetings. “We talked about family, not religion or politics,” he said. Investigators have found no link between the bombing and foreign militant groups.
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