Federal authorities are not focused exclusively on the sspect in custody but Katherine Russel Tsamaev, the wife of deceased Boston Bombing suspect Tamerlane Tsamaev, is wanted for questioning by them. The widow says she learnt her husband and brother-in-law were the accused Boston Marathone bombers the same way as most Americans on TV. A lawyer for Katherine, also the mother of Tamerlan 3-year daughter, Zahra claims she had no clue her husband plotted the bombing. Federal investigators visited 24-year old at her parent's home in Kingstown R.I. Her attorney says she is "Decidinh how we want to approach this". Tamerlan Tsamaev, 26, died after a shootout with cops Friday after officials say he and brother Dzahkhar Tsamanaev,19, fatally shot an MIT officer. Dzhakhar rtemains inBoston hospital, but is unable to speak, according to some sources, due to a self-inflicted throat wound. Dzahkhar was somewhast miraculously captured alive and in custody Friday night after a massive, city-wide manhunt that lasted nearly 24 hours. Authorities want to speak with Katherine as they are trying to piece together a motive, and whether the pair had ties to any Islamic cell. The brothers, ethnic Chechens, left Russia with their family in 2002, and became legal US citizens. Dzahkhar later became citizen of US. Investigators are focusing on the six-month Tsamaev spent in predomenently Muslim province in Dagestan and Chechenya. They want to know that if vhe was radiculized by militants in the area who had waged a low-level insugency against Russaian security forces for years. The suspects' parents moved to Russia.
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