Questions continue to arise about just what happened in Orlando last week, when the FBI’s line of questioning with a young Chechen immigrant turned fatal. Ibragim Todashev was a young MMA fighter who had allegedly confessed to committing a triple homicide with late Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The FBI questioned Todashev in his Orlando home for at least eight hours early last week, when something happened—but exactly what is in question. Early reports that Ibragim Todashev attacked FBI agents with a knife have come under scrutiny, following the testimony from some unnamed law enforcement officials who say the young man was unarmed. The FBI has given few details, other than, according to spokesman Paul Bresson, “the review process is thorough and objective and conducted as expeditiously as possible under the circumstances.”
However, Abdulbaki Todashev, the father of the slain man, says a friend of his son’s snapped a few photos in a Florida morgue that reveal he was shot in the back of the head, execution style. “My son didn’t have any weapons,” he said. “They questioned him for eight hours—eight hours! …my son didn’t have a gun, didn’t have a knife.” said Todashev. “I want justice and I want there to be an investigation. I want them to try these people according to American law. These aren’t employees of the FBI, they’re just bandits, that’s all that I can call them” …