Boston Bombing: Georgia Denies Terror Training

Georgia's president has denied suggestions that one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was given extremist training in his country.

Reports in Russia this week had claimed that 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended a seminar in Georgia where students were allegedly encouraged to commit terrorist acts.

Russian newspaper Izvestia said it had seen a report which allegedly revealed the Tsnarnaev attended events in the summer of 2012, organised by Georgian and US companies.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev (L) is alleged to have had extremist training in Georgia

Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia, told Sky News: "They (the Tsarnaev brothers) have never been to Georgia, although Russia is our neighbour and obviously Chechnya is a neighbouring region and people move back and forth.

Robel Phillipos has been charged with lying to investigators

"Russia has been saying this all the way through and the reason they have been saying that is that every time they want to justify their interference in our internal politics ... the simplest thing that came to their minds is that 'oh by the way they are training terrorists it's a common problem'."

Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili had earlier accused previous governments of colluding with alleged terrorists from the North Caucasus.

It comes after lawyers for a teenager charged with lying to investigations after the Boston bombing claimed he was not a flight risk and should be released from jail.

Robel Phillipos, 19, faces a detention hearing on Monday in US District Court.

He was charged last week with lying to investigators about visiting bomb suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev's college dorm room on April 18 - three days after the bombings.

Three people were killed in two explosions at the end of the marathon

Two other friends were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice by taking a backpack with fireworks and a laptop from Tsarnaev's room.

The April 15 bombing, which used pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails, ball bearings and metal shards, killed three people and injured more than 260 others near the marathon finishing line.

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