WASHINGTON - The US Senate Intelligence Committee is arranging a hearing into questions surrounding the FBI's handling of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a Senate aide said on Monday.
Final arrangements had not yet been made but a hearing is in the works and could take place as early as Tuesday, the aide said.
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Tsarnaev died in a gunfight with police early on Friday morning. He and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, 19, are suspected of carrying out a bomb attack on the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded more than 170.
Much of investigators' attention has focused on a trip to Russia last year by the older Tsarnaev brother, and whether he became involved with or was influenced by Chechen separatists or Islamist extremists there.
