Russia omitted details on Boston Marathon bombing suspect - NYT

Stacks of newspapers depicting the Boston Marathon bombing suspects sit unread in nearly deserted Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts April 19, 2013. REUTERS/Neal Hamberg

(Reuters) - Russia declined several FBI requests for more information on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years before the deadly 2013 attack, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing an unpublished U.S. government review.

The information, including a telephone call in which Tsarnaev and his mother discussed Islamic jihad, would probably have prompted harsher scrutiny of the suspect, the paper said.