Obama Aides Seek Change Of Course On 9/11 Trials

Russian agents placed the elder Boston bombing suspect under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled to find him when he suddenly disappeared after police killed a Canadian jihadist, a security official told The Associated Press.

Two government officials tell The Associated Press that U.S. intelligence agencies added the Boston bombing suspects' mother to a federal terrorism database about 18 months before the attack.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is charged in the Boston Marathon explosions, was transferred to a locked medical facility for male prisoners.    

ABC News'America took my kids away': Mother of Boston suspects insists sons not NBCNews.comIn an interview with reporters, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, the mother of Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, insists her sons are not responsible for the Patriot Day attacks and expresses her regret in relocating the family to the U.S. TIME criticized for article linking Tamerlan Tsarnaev's boxing history to Boston Fox NewsParents Say Boston Bombing Suspects Are InnocentNew York TimesBomb suspects' mother will 'never' accept their guilt - USA TodayUSA TODAYTIME -ABC News -NECNall 1,377 news articles »

The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. separately had Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspect who died last week, listed in government databases in 2011, though they cleared him of extremist links.