The story is being denied now, but still, how would Saudi Arabia even know anything about Tsarnaev to begin with??
I don't know. How did Russia know there was something suspicious about him, such that they warned the FBI? Are they spying on the internet viewing habits of every single expatriot of the Caucasus? That's the part that I still don't get.
So the Russian security services read the email of everyone who emigrates from that region or what? What did he do to get on their radar, such that they realized there was a problem, enough to warn the FBI about him?
Well, it was an international phone call they wiretapped.
And I bet Russia profiles its people, and tries to keep tabs on any Muslims, especially people in the Chechnya/Dagestan region.
Not saying it's right, just saying it's Russia. You kind of expect it of them. So of course it makes sense for Russia to have info on the Tsarnaev brothers. I think their father used to get in confrontations with the KGB in Soviet times too.
But there's absolutely no reason for Saudi Arabia to know anything in the first place, unless they were in contact with people the Saudi's were keeping an eye on.
