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Boston bombs 'remote trigger'

US investigators have revealed the two bombs that went off at the Boston Marathon were detonated with the kind of remote control device used for a toy car.

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'Suspect's web page' calls for Chechen independence

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Chechen independence and Islamic websites on what appears to be his page on a Russian social networking site.

Dzhokar Tsarnaev Credit: Boston Police

The 19-year-old, who police are still searching for, lists his 'world view' as Islam and his 'personal priority' is career and money.

Tsarnaev said he went to a primary school in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a province that borders Chechnya.

A video labelled 'tormenting my brother' shows a man resembling the dead 26-year-old Tamerlan laughing and imitating the accents of different Caucasian ethnic groups.

The teenager also posted links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war and to Islamic web pages, including one named: 'There is no God but Allah, let that ring out in our hearts.'

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