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The Czech Republic's to the United States has made it very that his country is not Chechnya. He was that many U.S. social media users were leaving on Twitter and Facebook to say that the Boston Marathon bombers were from the Czech Republic. Many of the posts called for America to get on the Czech Republic. The ambassador, Petr Gandalovič, put a on the Czech embassy website to people about the between his country and Chechnya. It read: "The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two very entities - the Czech Republic is a Central European country; Chechnya is a of the Russian Federation."

The Czech president Americans that his country is a U.S. ally. He said: "The Czech Republic is an and reliable of the U.S. in the fight terrorism. We…stand side by side with our ." In another Internet mix-up, social media users played online "detectives" and the name of an innocent man they believed was the main in the bombings. One poster said: "I'd like to extend the apologies to the family of [the wrongly accused] for any part we may have had in relaying… faulty information." Meanwhile, an expert American interrogation is waiting to question the real suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is in serious but condition in hospital.

 


 
 

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