Bomb Suspects' Home Split Over Religion

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BY ALAN CULLISON IN MAKHACHKALA, RUSSIA, PAUL SONNE IN MOSCOW, ANTON TROIANOVSKI IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS., AND DAVID GEORGE-COSH IN TORONTO
After last week’s Boston Marathon bombings, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva phoned her son Tamerlan in Massachusetts to make sure he was safe.
“Mama, why are you worrying?” Tamerlan replied from Boston, laughing.
Days later, it was the son who phoned his mother. The two, in recent years, had shared a powerful transformation to a more intense brand of Islam.
“The police, they have started shooting at us, they are chasing us,” Mrs. Tsarnaeva says Tamerlan told her. “Mama, I love you.” Then the phone went silent.
Soon, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 years old and a prime suspect in the bloody marathon bombings, was …
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