In an interview with the Voice of Russia, the lawyer of Abdulbaki Todashev, Zaurbek Sadakhanov, qualified what the FBI agents did with Ibragim Todashev as a deliberate murder. “Today, we saw photos of the killed Ibragim,” Mr. Sadakhanov said. “Judging by these photos, they shot at him 7 times. One of these shots was at the back of his head, so, this shot was obviously unexpected by him. It is hard to say which shots were made earlier and which later.”
“This incident raises many questions,” Zaurbek Sadakhanov continued, “and I hope that all of them will be thoroughly investigated. Thus, it looks very strange that the FBI agents came to Todashev’s place instead of ordering him to come to a police office. Then, why was he integrated without a lawyer, although this was already his third interrogation? Todashev was going to leave for Chechnya on May 24, and he already had a ticket, but the FBI did not allow him to leave the US, saying that he will have another interrogation. Then, why did they shot at him as many as 7 times? There were 5 policemen, and Todashev was alone in his flat, so one bullet was quite enough to kill him.”
“I don’t either see any reason why the FBI agents ordered Todashev’s friend, who was in his flat when they came, to go away. He could have waited for him in another room, or, at least, in the street outside the house.”
“In fact, they killed him without any proper official investigation, without any official decision of a court,” Mr. Sadakhanov concludes. “Things like that must be permitted by absolutely no means, either in the US or elsewhere. I hope that the actions of these FBI agents will be thoroughly investigated.”
Ibragim Todashev’s father demands his son’s murderers to be trialed
Abdulbaki Todashev, the father of Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen young man who was shot by FBI people when they interrogated him in his own flat, is demanding that his son’s murderers should be put under trial in the US. “These people do not deserve to be FBI agents. They are merely bandits,” Abdulbaki Todashev told The Voice of Russia.
- When did you communicate with your son for the last time? What was he doing in the US? And why the US security forces link him with the Tsarnaevs’ case?
- In fact, they linked him with this case for no particular reason. The only reason was that he had the Tsarnaevs’ phone number in his cell phone, or, probably – I am not quite sure – Tsarnaevs had his number in their phones. When the Tsarnaev brothers were arrested, the authorities, trying to figure out their possible contacts, looked through their cell phones and found Ibragim’s number. My son got acquainted with the Tsarnaev brothers a year or two ago because they went to the same gym hall with him. They were Chechens like him, and this is probably why he gave them his phone number, and they gave him their ones. But they never were close friends.
- What was your son doing in the US? Was he studying there?
- My son has studied at the foreign language department in a university in Chechnya. After his second year in the university, he went to the US for internship. Then, he decided to stay in the US for good.
- How would you comment on the fact that your son, was, in fact, executed without any official court, without any official confirmation of any guilt?
- How else may I comment on this than say that this is absolutely unlawful? They broke into my son’s flat, interrogated him for 8 years non-stop, probably even tortured him – no one can say what they did behind closed doors. Then, they shot him dead, made one more shot to be quite sure that he was really dead – and went off. This was done without any witnesses, without a lawyer. I hope that these people will be brought to justice and receive the punishment which they deserve. Things like that should never happen again!
No one explained anything to me, I showed the pictures that I have to the journalists today.
I don't know for sure but it looks like the shot was in the back of the head, as we say, and there is a special term - a "dead checking" shot. It was probably the last or may be the first shot, I am not sure. They made an arrangement on the phone, that he should come or may be they arranged it so that they should have come to his place. What can I do now? If I get a visa, I would like to go and take the body. If I don't get the visa, they said they will send the body here. I applied for an urgent visa, and they should answer by tomorrow, and return the passports with the visas or denial.
The pictures that I have are those taken by Ibragim's friends, they sent them to me. The Voice of Russia has also asked Kheda Saratova, the head of the independent research and information agency “Objective”, about a recent press conference over this case.
- Ms. Saratova, what was discussed at the press conference? And did the conference bring any results?
- We had to start the press conference at a little later time, because we had to wait for Abdulbaki Todashev to return from the US embassy. Mr. Todashev spent two days waiting for the embassy’s workers to accept him. He wants a visa to fly to the US and to take the remains of his son, because he wants him to be buried in Chechnya. It is a bit too early to say that this press conference has brought any results, but we hope that the world community will become more sympathetic to Abdulbaki Todashev’s grief and change its attitude towards thus case.
So far, the world’s media sources have either ignored this case or without any hesitation called the Tsarnaev brothers and Ibragim Todashev terrorists, although no guilt of any of them has been confirmed by any official investigation or court yet.
Photos reveal Boston bombing suspect’s friend Todashev got FBI kill shot in the head
The father of Ibragim Todashev, the man killed by an FBI agent during questioning about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is demanding a trial of the agent who gunned Ibragim down.
“I can show you the photos taken after the killing of my son. I have 16 photographs. I just would like to say that looking at these photos is like being in a movie. I only saw things like that in movies: shooting a person, and then the kill shot. Six shots in the body, one of them in the head,” Abdulbaki Todashev said at the press conference at RIA Novosti news agency in the Russian capital.
He explained that the photos were taken by friends of his son in the US, to whom the FBI handed the body.
“I want justice and I want an investigation to be carried out, I want these people [the FBI agents] to be put on trial in accordance with US law. They are not FBI officers, they are bandits. I cannot call them otherwise, they must be put on trial,” he said. Abdulbaki Todashev said his main aim now is to go to the US and get his son’s body.
“My brother and I, we went to the American embassy today. We both want to fly there, we’ve applied for a visa,” he explained. Tsarnaev brothers were framed - Todashev’s father Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tsarnaev brothers, were framed, the father of Ibragim Todashev, an acquaintance of deceased Tamerlan Tsarnaev, told reporters in Moscow Thursday. “My son never believed that they did it and kept telling me it was a set-up,” Abdul-Baki Todashev said. The man also added that his son has never been a radical Muslim and stuck to traditional Islam, having no links to militants.
Father of Todashev killed by FBI agent waiting for US visa to bring body home
Father of Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen-born US citizen who was killed by an FBI agent during an interrogation, has applied for American visa with the US embassy in an attempt to bring his son’s remains back home.
“My main goal now is to fly to America and fetch my son’s body,” Mr. Todashev told reporters at a press conference today. “Earlier today, I went to the US embassy with my brother. We are set to go to the US together. So we both submitted documents,” he said.
“My son’s body has already been returned to his American friends,” Mr. Todashev added.
Photos of the dead man’s body have been circulated by his friends. The graphic images show the corpse pierced by six bullets, with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Mr. Todashev said the embassy was to announce its decision by 3pm MSK on Friday. Ibragim Todashev was reportedly shot dead in an apparent shootout with an FBI agent at his Florida home. Media has been speculating on his alleged links with Tsarnaev brothers, suspected of carrying out the deadly Boston bombing attack.
Shortly before the shooting incident, the FBI and Massachusetts police questioned Todashev Jr. on the 15 April bombing and the triple murder in a Waltham apartment in 2011.
An official FBI statement confirmed Monday the 27-year-old had been killed during an interrogation. Media reports claim the man was unarmed at the time of killing.
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