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Palestinian territories
Sonya Petri read an account of a Russian government letter stating that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had previously hoped to travel to the Palestinian territories to wage jihad but decided not to go because he did not speak Arabic.
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The reported, abandoned travel plan formed part of the Russian letter's warning about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's possible radicalization, read during testimony about the FBI's 2011 assessment.