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cnn news 2013-05-27

We begin though tonight with breaking news. cnn now has just confirmed some information about the Boston bombing. Authorities are now making a direct connection between the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the triple homicide back in 2011 that left a close friend of his dead.

We talked a lot about that back when the bombings occurred. It comes after an acquaintance(相识、熟人) of Tamerlan Tsarnaev reportedly confessed to taking part in those killings, before authorities say he was attacked and was shot dead by an FBI agent who was interviewing him. Susan Candiotti has been working her sources. She joins us now. So, Susan, what's the latest on this?

Well, hi, Anderson. Tamerlan Tsarnaev is now linked to those vicious triple murders outside Boston in 2011. That's what's being confirmed to us by a federal law enforcement official, the link allegedly coming from a man who is being questioned today by the FBI and Massachusetts State Police.

Now, that man's name is Ibragim Todashev. A law enforcement official tells me he fingered(告发) Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the triple murders, described to me as drug-related. We have mug shots(面部照片；嫌疑犯照片) of Todashev from two unrelated road rage cases in both Orlando and Boston. Now, Todashev was fatally shot at his home in Orlando during a confrontation with the FBI right after he confessed to the triple murders. Sources tell me it was self-defense. A law enforcement source tells my colleague Deb Feyerick the man attacked the agent with a knife. An FBI team is in Orlando reviewing what happened. And, Anderson, that's standard operating procedure in any FBI shooting.

Do we have any idea what the motive was for these triple murders? It was drug-related?

Yes, my sources tells me it involved some kind of a drug ripoff(盗窃) and that Tamerlan and his friend didn't want to risk getting caught, so they killed them.

Is there any connection between the dead man in Orlando and the Boston bombing?

Well, if there is, Anderson, the FBI hasn't found a link so far. But agents first became interested in this man because my source tells me they came up with leads that Tamerlan and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, knew the Chechen in Orlando. Now, the Chechen, and he was granted political asylum here in 2008, used to live in Boston just like the Tsarnaevs did. Agents were checking out anyone who knew the Tsarnaev brothers. Now, our cnn affiliate WCVB says the FBI looked at this apartment near Boston, where Todashev lived shortly after the marathon bombing and they also came up with other leads, including cell phone connections between Tamerlan and the dead man in Orlando. Our Ashleigh Banfield has also been reporting on the Massachusetts State Police then getting involved.

Is the FBI looking at the men in Orlando and Tamerlan Tsarnaev for any radicalization links?

Yes, we do know that all three men had checked out a martial arts Web site and online forum. And so had a "Russian Canadian boxer turned jihadist(吉哈德讨伐异教运动成员)" William Plotnikov. You remember that we told you about him before. The FBI has been investigating links between him and Tamerlan, because Tamerlan was in Russia last year, and came home to Boston right after Plotnikov was killed by Russian forces. And the FBI has been checking to see whether Tamerlan met with him while he was there in Russia.