I think the father of IT is confused and thinks they went after his son because of the Boston bombings:
http://ruptly.tv/vod/view/1392/russ...pect-shot-dead-in-us-was-innocent-says-father
Grozny, Russia
May 22, 2013, 19:41 (GMT)
SOT: Abdul-Baki Todashev, Father of Ibragim Todashev (Russian): "He had a ticket for a flight back in May 24. They had his plans changed by killing him. That man lived in Boston, and my boy lived in Florida. He moved a year ago. When he still lived in Boston, they just attended the same gym, as it now turns out. If you didn't provoke him, he would never attacked anyone, he was very quiet. From what I heard, five or six police officers entered his house. I don't know much, really. How could he have attacked anyone, and a police officer in particular, with a knife, if there were five or six of them, and they were in his house? While in Florida, he underwent surgery to fix an injured knee, so it was impossible for him physically to be present anywhere.
So when those bombings took place in Boston, he was still either in hospital or at home recovering from the surgery. He couldn't take part in the terror act because it wasn't physcially possible. After the surgery he had to learn how to walk anew. Like all Chechens, he practiced Islam, that's it. He never had any radical or extreme views. Before he came to the US, he lived and studied in the city of Saratov. When he completed his third year of studies, we moved to Grozny. Life had imrpoved in Chechnya so we repaired our house and moved back. So he moved too and began studying here at the local university. When he completed his fourth year, he asked me to let him go to the US to practice the English language which he studied here. When he spent some time there,
he asked me if he could stay in the US because he obviously took a liking to the place. I told him he needed to complete his studies first. He replied he would come back in a few years' time, apply for the university again and complete the only year remaining."
I'm not sure he knew about a connection to the Waltham murders. And, I thought earlirr he said his son had not worked.
I don't know why IT was seeking political asylum if his father is saying he simply wanted to stay here because he liked it. But, here's the kicker....
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The Tsarnaev's mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, has said that Todashev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev saw each other regularly in Boston."