The mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects remains convinced that her sons were not behind the attacks.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev, the mother of suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar, told CNN that she believes the bombings were faked and her children were set up "just because they were Muslim."
She has seen a video that leads her to believe that the bombings were "something like a really big play" that used "paint instead of blood."
"...Everybody's talking about it: that this is a show, that's what I want to know," she said from Dagestan. "That's what I want to understand."
She admitted that she has not seen the news images of the actual bombing, and expressed sorrow for the victims of the attack.
The events of the Boston Marathon have devastated her. She is a "loving mother of two kids." She refused to look at photographs of her dead son Tamerlan, 26, and his body has yet to been claimed. Authorities have also told her that she will not be able to see her youngest son, Dzhokhar, who is recovering in a hospital after being seriously wounded by police.
"This is really crazy. I can't even, I can't even describe it," she said. "I have no strength. I have nothing. I have no sleep. I am just like dead. Like a dead person."
Zubeidat remains in Dagestan, unable to visit the United States due to a felony warrant for shoplifting and property damage. Her husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, is expected to arrive in the U.S. as soon as Friday.
He has said he will cooperate with the investigation.
Zubeidat also revealed that the FBI visited her family several times in 2011 to question them about Tamerlan:
"They said that they ... just think that Tamerlan is a kind of ... little on radical side of Islamm and they just don't want ... they are keeping their eye on, you know, the boys, like young boys like Tamerlan so any bombing any like explosion won't happen in America."
Dzhokhar, 19, was charged earlier this week and will be tried in federal court.
