Boston Marathon Bombing

[American Patriot]

False flag?

Man arrested after dropping backpack at Boston Marathon finish line

Published April 16, 2014FoxNews.com






April 15, 2014: A member of the bomb squad inspects an object after a controlled detonation at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)




One man was arrested Tuesday after leaving a backpack near the Boston Marathon finish line on the one-year anniversary of a deadly bombing of the famous road race.


Boston Police issued an all-clear for an area of Boylston Street near the finish line shortly after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday after two backpacks were detonated by a bomb squad as a precautionary measure. MyFoxBoston.com reported that police found a rice cooker in one of the bags, but did not elaborate on the contents of the second bag. It was not clear who the second bag belonged to, nor was it clear how it was discovered.


Boston police did not identify the man in custody, but a spokesman said the suspect appeared to be "not of sound mind." Authorities said he would be charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and possession of a hoax device.


Police Superintendent Randall Halstead said the man was stopped by an officer who saw him acting suspiciously, including walking down the middle of a street barefoot in pouring rain. The man dropped the backpack and told the officer it contained a rice cooker, he said.


WBZ-TV photographers at the scene said they saw the man ran barefoot toward the finish line, carrying the backpack and screaming "Boston Strong!"


"All of a sudden you hear this guy go, 'Boston Strong, Boston Strong,'" a witness told WFXT-TV. "So I turned around, he's right next to me walking by, and there's two Boston cops standing on the corner ... so they turn around, they caught wind of it, and they go 'Hey, you come here.' And he goes 'Get away from me.' So another cop came around him, grabbed him, started struggling with him over the backpack, they pulled the bag off him and then they tackled him and took him down," he said.


The bomb scare came only hours after the city paused to mark the one-year anniversary of the 2013 bombing at the marathon's finish line, in which three people were killed and hundreds were wounded. Former Boston Mayor Tom Menino was joined by Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick at the ceremony.


Authorities say two brothers planned and orchestrated the attack. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died following a shootout with police several days after the bombings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded not guilty to 30 federal charges and is awaiting trial. He faces the death penalty.

[American Patriot]

Man charged with marathon hoax due in court

| April 16, 2014 | Updated: April 16, 2014 9:24am

• Photo By Michael Dwyer/AP
  A member of the bomb squad inspects an object after a controlled detonation at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Police have blown up two unattended backpacks found near the Boston Marathon's finish line on Tuesday. They say they've taken a man into custody in connection with them.

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BOSTON (AP) — The mother of a man arrested near the Boston Marathon finish line carrying a backpack containing a rice cooker on the anniversary of the bombings says her son has a mental disorder.
Joie Edson tells The Associated Press that her son Kevin "Kayvon" Edson has bipolar disorder.
The 25-year-old was arrested Tuesday. He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Boston Municipal Court. The Suffolk district attorney's office confirmed his name.
He faces a charge of possession of a hoax device, but authorities say more charges may be added.
The man was stopped late Tuesday by an officer who saw him acting suspiciously, including walking barefoot down the middle of a street, veiled in black, in pouring rain.
Last year, two bombs made from rice cookers killed three at the marathon.

[Phil Fiord]

I don't think false flag is active with this incident. It seems to be mental stability issues.

[American Patriot]

Mental stability was an issue in Sandy Hook, Aurora Movie theater and who knows what other shootings...

And I think those were planned events too. Those idiots were convinced to do what they did by someone else, had outside help, etc.

[Avvakum]

To our enemies, a weapon is a weapon, and an unstable person can be manipulated into doing terrible things. The Soviets had it down to a science by the 1930's, with Beria's NKVD running a 'Psychopolitical Institute' out of the Lubyanka. An example of an asassination blamed on the wrong players would be the murders of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Jean Barthou in 1934. 'Cue Bono?', 'Who Benefits?', should be the question asked everytime.

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Ibragim Todashev shooter had stormy record as officer

Boston agent who killed Tsarnaev friend was target of brutality suits with Oakland police

By Maria Sacchetti

| Globe Staff May 14, 2014

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The Boston FBI agent who fatally shot a Chechen friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Florida last year had a brief and troubled past at the Oakland Police Department in California. In four years, Officer #8313 took the Fifth at a police corruption trial and was the subject of two police brutality lawsuits and four internal affairs investigations. He retired from the department in 2004 at age 31.
Over the past year, FBI and Massachusetts officials have refused to identify the two state troopers and the agent involved in the May 22, 2013, shooting of Ibragim Todashev, 27, in his Orlando apartment, where he agreed to be interviewed. During the session, Todashev, a mixed martial arts fighter with a criminal record, turned violent, flinging a tabletop at the FBI agent and brandishing a metal pole at the trooper, they said. He was stopped by seven bullets from the FBI agent’s gun.
Even Florida, which often identifies such officers, declined to do so in this case, citing concerns for the investigators’ safety.
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The Globe obtained their names by removing improperly created redactions from an electronic copy of Florida prosecutor Jeffrey L. Ashton’s report — which in March found the shooting of Todashev justified — and then verifying their identities through interviews and multiple government records. Those records include voting, birth, and pension documents.
That research identifies the FBI agent as Aaron McFarlane, 41.
McFarlane’s full name and birth date on records in Massachusetts and New Hampshire match that of the Oakland police officer who was involved in several controversies during his four years with that police force. He retired with a pension of more than $52,000 annually for the rest of his life.
In California, lawyers who had sued McFarlane in Oakland were stunned that the FBI later hired him.
“I would be shocked to learn that the Aaron McFarlane we sued a decade ago could have gone on to have a career with the FBI,” said Ian Kelley, a San Francisco lawyer who sued McFarlane on behalf of a man, Michael Cole, who accused McFarlane and another officer of beating him.
The events described in that lawsuit, he said, “should have thrown up a red flag.”
Ben Rosenfeld, a civil rights lawyer in San Francisco who represented a plaintiff in a similar case against McFarlane, said the FBI should have been concerned about the allegations against McFarlane.
“There are enough qualified applicants out there and the FBI’s supposed to be the cream of the crop,” he said. “I don’t think they need to reach that low into the barrel.”
But others said McFarlane was a fine officer in a struggling police department in one of the nation’s most dangerous cities. Oakland has one of the highest crime rates in the nation, with more than double the homicides and robberies as Boston, but with fewer than half the police officers, just 650 for the city of 400,000.
“He’s a very good police officer. People understand the environment in Oakland is particularly toxic and very tough,” said Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers’ Association. “A lot of the officers are going elsewhere because the experience they gain here is unmatched.”
Howard Jordan, a former Oakland police chief who said he helped train the young McFarlane, said it was well known in Oakland that McFarlane had gone to the FBI. He described McFarlane as a “solid officer,” smart, quiet, and confident, with many friends in the department.
Todashev’s family and civil liberties groups say the official investigations into the shooting failed to examine the troopers and FBI agent, and their decisions leading up to the shooting. Even if Todashev had attacked, they said, the authorities on the scene could have prevented the death of Todashev, a key figure in the bombings investigation, a witness considered so crucial that the FBI had him under surveillance by land and air.
Ashton, the prosecutor who investigated the shooting, said through a spokesman in March that he declined to interview McFarlane directly because the FBI would not let him record the interview. Instead, the FBI provided Ashton with the agent’s statements.
That, in turn, has fueled critics’ view that the prosecutor’s report is flawed. “A report that doesn’t include that kind of history is not a complete report,” said Hassan Shibly, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Florida, which is conducting its own investigation of the shooting.
Ashton’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The Department of Justice also cleared McFarlane in the shooting in a separate report.
Until now, little has been known about the investigators in the room with Todashev.
The FBI has refused to say whether McFarlane was involved in any past shootings, though the Oakland police said he had not been involved in any shootings there. The Massachusetts State Police said neither trooper had ever been involved in a shooting.
The FBI had found Todashev quickly after the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings and initially he cooperated, answering questions about accused bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom he knew during their days together in the Boston area.
Todashev provided fingerprints and a DNA sample, according to FBI records in the Florida prosecutor’s report released in March, and met with investigators three times at law enforcement offices.
Then the FBI heard Todashev had booked a flight to his native Russia. On the night of May 21, 2013, McFarlane and the two state troopers, all law enforcement officials now in their 40s, were rushing to Todashev’s apartment in Orlando, working one of the biggest cases of their lives.
A year later, it is unclear why the FBI sent McFarlane, an agent with about five years on the job. He was with the two state troopers assigned to the case, Curtis Cinelli and Joel Gagne, and a Florida task force officer, who remained outside. Their names were also confirmed by the Globe by unredacting the prosecutor’s report — a process made relatively simple because the blackout technique used to cover the names was faulty and could easily be removed by using common software.
Cinelli is a veteran trooper with several commendations who specializes in hunting fugitives. Gagne is the lead investigator in the 2011 killing of three young men in Waltham, a crime in which Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a suspect.
The troopers declined to comment through the State Police union’s lawyer, Richard J. Rafferty Jr. McFarlane, the son of a former police officer, became an FBI special agent in Boston in November 2008, according to a federal court affidavit.
McFarlane had worked at the troubled Oakland department from 2000 to 2004, during the biggest police corruption scandal in the city’s history. Oakland fired four police officers who called themselves the “Riders” after prosecutors filed criminal charges against them in 2000 on accusations of beating and kidnapping people, making false arrests, planting evidence, and falsifying police reports. No one was ever convicted, but the city settled a federal lawsuit for $10.9 million and the department remains under court oversight today.
McFarlane testified for the defense in the first Riders criminal trial. In his cross-examination, prosecutor David Hollister suggested that McFarlane had falsified a police report to drum up a reason to arrest a man. According to a court transcript requested by the Globe, Hollister said the report, which was investigated by Oakland’s internal affairs unit, “at first flush certainly appears to be criminal.”
“I think on its face, Officer McFarlane should probably have some concerns about whether or not he violated Section 118.1 of the Penal Code in filing a false police report,” Hollister said.
McFarlane reluctantly pleaded the Fifth to avoid incriminating himself and later testified under immunity, but he told Hollister that he did nothing wrong.
“I write the truth in my reports,” McFarlane said, according to the transcript.
Hollister also questioned McFarlane about another arrest that night: a man who suffered a head injury. A police report said McFarlane had transported him to jail, according to the transcript. McFarlane said he did not know how the man was injured.
Shortly after McFarlane’s testimony, two men filed lawsuits against McFarlane and another officer accusing them of beating them the year before. Michael Cole, a convicted drug dealer, said McFarlane held him down as another officer, Steven Nowak, allegedly stomped on his head, injuring his eye and breaking his nose, allegedly because Cole’s uncle had filed a complaint against Nowak.
McFarlane and Nowak denied the assertions in court records. McFarlane said Cole kicked and hit him during a search of a notorious drug corner and injured himself when he fled in handcuffs and fell. The city settled the suit for $22,500. The city also settled a related lawsuit for $10,000 filed by Cole’s friend Robert Girard, who said McFarlane and Nowak beat him after he photographed Cole’s injuries at the hospital. McFarlane said Girard had barged into an off-limits area and hit McFarlane in the chest.
In the settlements, McFarlane and Nowak did not acknowledge any wrongdoing and Nowak remains in the department. Oakland police would not divulge the outcome of the internal affairs investigations, saying it was confidential. Donelan, the union president, said Oakland police are often targeted by frivolous lawsuits that are settled to avoid the expense of a full-blown trial. “This is litigation central,” he said. “It’s not about the officers. It’s about the environment they’re operating in.”
According to court records, McFarlane had repeatedly injured his leg and broken an ankle while on the force, and retired on medical disability. Amy Morgan, spokeswoman for the state-run retirement system in Sacramento, said only that he is collecting a pension of more than $52,000 a year for life.
It is unclear what McFarlane did next, but federal records show he joined the Boston FBI in 2008 after passing a rigorous background check and graduating from the bureau’s academy at Quantico, Va. At the time of the Marathon bombings, he was investigating bank robberies, working with Boston and other police agencies, and sometimes appearing as a guest speaker at industry conferences.
In Boston, the FBI refused to discuss McFarlane’s work history, saying it could threaten his safety. “Publishing the alleged name of the Agent involved in this shooting incident serves no public interest or service, except to foster continued media scrutiny,” the Boston FBI said in a statement. “The personal safety of the Agent continues to be of concern to the Boston Division, and publishing the Agent’s name potentially places the Agent and his family at risk for reprisal.”
McFarlane has previously been publicly identified in a blog about the Boston Marathon case.
Although the State Police declined to comment on the troopers’ identities, and expressed concern about naming them, Geoffrey P. Alpert, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina, said that some states and police departments routinely publish the names of officers involved in shootings so that the public is aware of the facts.
“The public has the right to know if an officer shoots his weapon. They work for us,” said Alpert, who has testified in police-involved shootings in Texas and other states. “Usually when an officer fires his weapon, that’s a pretty serious event and it should be public. . . . The more they try to hide it, the more you wonder why.”
It remains unclear why the agent and troopers did not wait to persuade Todashev to come to a secure office or find a way to detain him the night he was shot.
Upset that the FBI had reported his girlfriend to immigration, Todashev refused to meet the investigators at a secure government office, where he had gone for past interviews. With 30 minutes’ notice, the investigators rushed to Todashev’s dimly lighted apartment, with an AK-47 sticker on the door and a samurai sword on the wall.
Authorities also have not said why the investigators, after more than four hours of questioning, thought it was safe to break their own rules by leaving only two men alone in the room with Todashev.
Just two weeks earlier, Todashev had singlehandedly fought two men in a parking lot as the FBI watched.
In his statement, McFarlane said he felt Todashev was an 8 on scale of 1 to 10 for his propensity for violence.
As the clock neared midnight, it appeared the investigators’ work had paid off.
Todashev had confessed to helping Tsarnaev kill the three men in Waltham. The bodies of Brendan Mess, who was Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s friend, Raphael Teken, and Erik Weissman were found in Waltham in September 2011, their throats slit and their bodies sprinkled with marijuana. Todashev, according to the Florida report, had told investigators that he believed that he and Tsarnaev were going to the Waltham house to steal $40,000, not to kill the men.
The troopers had captured the confession on video and audio, according to the report, and Todashev then sat down to put it in writing. The troopers sent the news to officials in Massachusetts.
“Who’s your daddy?” Cinelli said in one text, according to Ashton’s report.
Though the troopers felt they had probable cause to arrest Todashev, the district attorney’s office told them to wait for a warrant. Around midnight, Gagne stepped outside to call the Middlesex district attorney’s office.
An instant later, the room filled with a loud roar. According to the only witnesses, McFarlane and Cinelli, Todashev flung a table at McFarlane’s head, opening a gash that required nine staples to close. Then, instead of fleeing out the door, Todashev allegedly grabbed a metal broomstick and aimed it at Cinelli.
McFarlane said he staggered to his feet, bleeding, and shouted at Todashev to stop. When Todashev lunged at Cinelli, McFarlane said, he shot him several times. McFarlane said Todashev fell and then got up, prompting McFarlane to shoot him again. Cinelli told officials that he “absolutely” would have done the same thing.
After the shooting, McFarlane told the FBI he did not know that the State Police troopers had been taping Todashev’s confession. He said he often had his back to the troopers as they questioned Todashev.
But once he learned about the recordings, McFarlane suggested to a supervisor that they release the confession to the media. In a statement supplied to the Florida prosecutor, McFarlane said he told a supervisor “it would be nice if we released the video because it would refute many of the press’ allegations.”
The FBI and the State Police did not release the videos.
In March, 10 months after the shooting, the Florida prosecutor and the Department of Justice released hundreds of pages of documents on the shooting at once — and then largely declined to comment.
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Andrew Ba Tran of the Globe Staff contributed to this report. Maria Sacchetti can be reached at msacchetti@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @mariasacchetti.

[American Patriot]

Interesting development here:


Quincy man arrested in Marathon bombing probe

By Mike Bello, Milton J. Valencia, John R. Ellement and Martin Finucane

| Globe Staff May 30, 2014

A Quincy cabdriver who was a friend of the late Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been charged with obstructing the investigation of the bombing.
Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, was arrested this morning by federal authorities, the US attorney’s office in Boston said. He made a brief initial appearance in US District Court in Boston this afternoon. He was ordered held without bail until a detention hearing at 11 a.m. Wednesday.


He has been indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of destroying, altering, and falsifying records, documents, and tangible objects in a federal investigation. He is also charged with three counts of making a false statement in a federal terrorism investigation.
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Matanov, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan who entered the United States lawfully in 2010, also knew Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s brother and alleged partner in the bombing.


The indictment alleged that “in the hours and days following the bombings, Matanov contacted and attempted to contact Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by cellphone and saw Tamerlan in person at least twice.”


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In fact, the indictment alleged, Matanov called Tamerlan Tsarnaev 42 minutes after the April 15, 2013, terror bombings and treated him and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to dinner that night at a restaurant. The indictment also alleges that on April 17, 2013, Matanov visited Tamerlan Tsarnaev at his Cambridge home.


But Matanov is not charged with participating in the bombings or knowing about them ahead of time, federal prosecutors said in a statement. And the indictment alleges that Matanov did not realize the brothers were the bombing suspects until April 18, when the FBI publicly released pictures of them.


Three people were killed and more than 260 people were injured in the attack. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed early on April 19, 2013, after being shot by police and run over by his brother as he drove away from police. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 at the time, was captured later the same day, and is awaiting trial on federal charges that could bring him the death penalty. The two brothers also allegedly murdered an MIT police officer.


The bombings shook the nation, raising once again the specter of terrorism on American soil. Authorities say the brothers had veered toward Islamic radicalism.
Matanov faces up to 20 years in prison on the destruction of evidence charge, and 8 years apiece on the false statements charges, federal prosecutors said.
Matanov wore a Levi’s shirt, jeans, and a bowl-shaped haircut during his appearance in court. His face was covered with light stubble.


Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff


The apartment complex in Quincy where Khairullozhon Matanov was arrested early Friday.




Asked by US Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler if he needed an interpreter, he said, “No, I’m good.”


Matanov said he had been a cabdriver for more than two years, was not married, and had no family in the United States. He said he had never been arrested. He said he went to law school for two years in his home country, but had problems getting into college here.


He told Bowler he could not afford a lawyer. Bowler appointed Ed Hayden as his attorney.


Asked by Bowler if he understood his rights, Matanov said, “Yes, I do.” The hearing lasted about 15 minutes.


Outside the courtroom, Hayden said the prosecution’s case included a “lot of unsubstantiated allegations.”


“He had no intent to mislead the FBI and, from what I can see, whatever he did didn’t impede the investigation,” Hayden said.


He called the gap of more than a year between authorities interviewing his client and his client’s arrest the “million-dollar question.”


According to the indictment, after the release of photos of the suspected bombers, Matanov realized the FBI would want to talk with him because of his contacts with them, especially in the days following the bombing.


Matanov took a series of steps to “discourage and impede” the FBI’s probe into the extent of his relationship with the alleged bombers, the indictment said.
Matanov made a number of false statments to investigators and deleted information from his computer, including files that “contained violent content or calls to violence,” the indictment said.


Deleting the information from the computer “obstructed the FBI’s determination of his Internet activity ... and the extent to which he shared the suspected bombers’ philosophical justification for violence, among other topics of interest,” the indictment said.


The deletions “thus obstructed the FBI’s investigation of the bombings and the suspected bombers,” the indictment said.


The material deleted allegdly included a large amount of information from his computer’s Internet cache, as well as 902 of the 903 folders or files in his computer’s “Videos” folder, and about 377 of the 402 folders or files from the “Documents” folder.


Matanov also allegedly tried to get at least two people to take one or more cellphones from him so they wouldn’t be found if the FBI searched his apartment.


Matanov voluntarily went to be interviewed by a Braintree police detective. But he allegedly made false statements in that interview. And in later interviews with the FBI, “he continued to falsify, conceal, and cover up evidence of the extent of his friendship, contact and communication with the Tsarnaevs during the week of the bombings, especially during the hours following the bombings,” the indictment said.


A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said the indictment grew out of an ongoing grand jury investigation into the Marathon bombings.


Timeline: Alleged activities of Khairullozhon Matanov
The indictment said Matanov had, in the past, worshipped with Tamerlan and participated in a variety of activities with him, “including discussing religious topics and hiking up a New Hampshire mountain in order to train like, and praise, the ‘mujahideen’ [Islamic guerrilla fighters].”


The indictment also said that when Matanov returned home from dinner with the Tsarnaev brothers on the night of the bombing, he told a witness that the bombings “could have had a just reason, such as being done in the name of Islam, that he would support the bombings if the reason were just or the attack had been done by the Taliban, and that the victims had gone to paradise.”


Matanov continued to express support for the bombings in the following days, the indictment said. At one point, he expressed sympathy for the victims’ families and said the bombings might have been wrong. But “he continued to explain away the significance of the victims’s deaths on the ground that everyone must eventually die,” the indictment said.


Matanov’s final attempt to contact the Tsarnaevs, according to the indictment, came at 7:17 a.m. on April 19, 2013, when he called Dzhokhar Tsarnev’s cellphone. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was dead by that time. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was trying to elude the manhunt in Watertown. He did not answer.


Hayden, the defense attorney, said his client was “nervous” and “frightened.”


Hayden said Matanov had come to the United States on a student visa and was studying information technology at Quincy College two years ago and stopped. Hayden said he believed it was because of financial problems.


Matanov then applied for asylum and was granted it because of the turmoil in Kyrgyzstan.


Matanov has four brothers, two in Kyrgyzstan, two in Russia. His mother is very ill with diabetes and his father had a stroke and is partially paralyzed, Hayden said.
Hayden also, at one point, lived in Russia for a year, he said.


In Quincy this morning, a neighbor of Matanov’s, Leslie Aiello, 49, said Matanov was a mysterious figure who never said hello and walked with his head down.


“He kind of scared me,” she said.


She said she awoke around 5:30 a.m. to find the brick apartment building surrounded by a SWAT team and a host of FBI agents.


About 30 minutes later he was led out the front door in handcuffs. He was not struggling, she said.


He lived with a roommate whom she hadn’t seen in the last two months.


Neighbor Tyler Young, 27, said he was stunned by the accusations. “It’s shocking “ he said. “I didn’t know the gravity of the whole thing”


Matanov, who worked for Braintree Checker Cab, told his colleagues there that he knew the Tsarnaevs and was adamant that they had been wrongly accused, said Nour, the owner of the company, who only wanted his first name used because he was concerned about the impact of Matanov’s legal troubles on his business.


“They [law enforcement] got it wrong or they are being framed.’ ’’ Nour recalled Matanov saying. “ ‘They would never have done that.’ ”

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Peter Schworm of the Globe staff contributed to this report.

[American Patriot]

Boston Marathon suspect's friend guilty of conspiracy

John Bacon, USA TODAY 2:24 p.m. EDT July 21, 2014

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Azamat Tazhayakov, a friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, was convicted Monday of helping cover up the crime.
A federal jury found Tazhayakov guilty of obstruction of justice and conspiracy by hindering the investigation into Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a friend and fellow student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Prosecutors said that after Tazhayakov and another friend, Dias Kadyrbayev, determined that Tsarnaev was a suspect in the bombing, they threw out a backpack and removed a laptop from Tsarnaev's dorm room. Lawyers for Tazhayakov argued that Kadyrbayev had removed the items; prosecutors said Tazhayakov went along with the plan.
Tazhayakov was convicted of involvement with the backpack, but not the laptop.
Tazhayakov, who could face more than 20 years in prison, was the first of four friends of the Tsarnaev brothers to face trial stemming from the April 2013 bombing. Kadyrbayev faces trial in September.
Tsarnaev, who will turn 21 on Tuesday, is charged with bombing a public place and using a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death. The April 15 attack, on Patriots Day, a major holiday in the city highlighted by the running of the nation's most iconic marathon, killed three and injured more than 260 people.
Prosecutors say Tsarnaev's brother, Tamerlan, was also involved in the planning and bombing.
Three days later, on April 18, Kadyrbayev texted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, telling him that a photo released by police showed a suspect that looked like Dzhokhar.
"LOL," was the reply from Tsarnaev, acccording to a federal affidavit. "You better not text me ... come to my room and take whatever you want."
Kadyrbayev then showed the text message to a friend, Azamat Tazhayakov. Hours later, prosecutors say, the two men went to Tsarnaev's dorm room. Prosecutors say Kadyrbayev removed Tsarnaev's backpack, which contained fireworks, and his laptop -- and that Tazhayakov supported the effort to protect Dzhokhar.
Later that night, prosecutors say the Tsarnaev brothers Sean Collier, a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hours later, in the early hours of April 19, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police.
Dzhokhar was found, wounded and hiding in a boat, on April 20. He is being held without bail and could face the death penalty if convicted.

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Accused Boston Marathon bombers’ sister arrested for making bomb threat

August 28, 2014 / Daniel Crane

Aliana Tsarnaev, the sister of the two men suspected of detonating a pair of pressure cooker bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon, was arrested and released in New York City on Wednesday on a charge of aggravated harassment.
According to authorities, Tsarnaev, 23, called the mother of her boyfriend’s child on Monday this week and said, “I have people that can go over there and put a bomb on you.” The New York Daily News reported, per a police source, that Tsarnaev surrendered herself at a prescient in Harlem and was given a desk appearance ticket.
The accused’s brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, are suspected of killing three people and wounding more than 260 others at last year’s footrace in Massachusetts. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, was captured a week later and awaits trial where he faces the death penalty if convicted of committing an act of terrorism; Tamerlan, then 26, died during a shoot-out with police days after the April 15, 2013 bombing.
Read more at RT News

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Report says Boston bomber’s mosque has ties to ISIS

September 8, 2014 / Country Christian

Exterior view of Islamic Center, a Cambridge mosque said to have ties to ISIS.Kayana Szymczak/ Getty Images

On Sunday, the New York Post reported that the mosque attended by the Boston Marathon bomber has ties to ISIS, the radical Islamic terror group in Iraq and Syria. According to the report, Ahmad Abousamra, a top propagandist for ISIS, was a regular worshipper at the mosque.
The Post also said that Abousamra’s father “sat on the board of directors of the Muslim organization that runs the mosque.” He stepped down, however, when the FBI began questioning his son.
According to the FBI, the 32-year-old Abousamra went to Pakistan and Yemen to train terrorists to kill Americans while enrolled at Boston colleges. FBI Agent Andrew Nambu said in an affidavit that Abousamra justified the murder of civilians because “they paid taxes to support the government and were kufar [nonbelievers].”
The FBI now believes he operates ISIS’ propaganda wing, promoting beheadings and other atrocities through videos posted on the Internet. As a result of his slick campaign, thousands of Western jihadists have been recruited, including some 300 Americans.
Written by: JOE NEWBY – continue reading at EXAMINER

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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/bos...arnaev-n317171


Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Begins For Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
By Tom Winter and Jon Schuppe

BOSTON — Nearly two years after twin blasts rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring scores more, alleged bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared before a jury Wednesday as the lead prosecutor accused him of believing he was "a soldier in a holy war against Americans" and a defense lawyer acknowledged that Tsarnaev's actions were "inexcusable."

In opening statements, Assistant U.S. Attorney William Weinreb painted a detailed picture of the moments before the attack, with thousands gathered along the race sidelines as a Boston Red Sox game let out. Weinreb also outlined a portrait of Tsarnaev as duplicitous, someone who kept his violent tendencies secret from his closest friends. He joined the spectators that day, but "he wasn't there to watch the marathon. He had a backpack over his shoulder and inside that backpack he had a bomb," Weinreb said.

That bomb, made of a pressure cooker, as "the type of bomb preferred by terrorists," Weinreb said.

Tsarnaev, wearing a striped shirt and dark blue sports jacket, sat motionless and stared forward as Weinreb walked jurors through the prosecution's account. The jurors remained riveted on the prosecutor.

Weinreb charged that Tsarnaev walked in front of the Forum restaurant, and set the backpack "right behind a row of children." One of those children, 8-year-old Martin Richard, would die from the blast after Tsarnaev allegedly used a remote control to detonate the bomb.

The visceral imagery in the trial's opening minutes was just a piece of what is expected to be a painstaking retelling of an attack that will reawaken horrific memories and raise the possibility of a death penalty case in a state that hasn't executed anyone since 1947.

Family members of victims of the marathon attack — along with relatives of Tsarnaev — took seats in the packed federal courtroom. To Tsarnaev's left sat 12 jurors and six alternates, chosen in a two-month selection process that included multiple requests by defense lawyers to move the trail out of Boston, where they said Tsarnaev couldn't get a fair trial in a city where nearly everyone was impacted by the bombing or its aftermath.

The trial is expected to hinge less on Tsarnaev's guilt — to be determined in the first phase — as much as whether he gets the death penalty — to be determined in the second phase.

Prosecutors say the bombings were the result of a deliberate plan hatched by Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan. Defense lawyers counter that Tsarnaev was manipulated by his brother, the plot's mastermind, who died in a shootout with police.

The April 15, 2013 bombs, made out of pressure cookers and placed in backpacks in the crowd about a block apart at the race's final stretch, killed three people: 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, 8-year-old Martin William Richard and 23-year-old Lingzi Lu. In the manhunt that followed, an MIT police officer, Sean Collier, 26, was shot to death allegedly by the brothers.

Four days after the attack, Tsarnaev, 19 at the time, was found hiding in a boat stored in a backyard, wounded by police gunfire.

Weinreb, in his opening statements, led jurors through what he described as Tsarnaev's increasing attraction to Islamic militancy in the months before the attack: an interest in "terrorists' music and songs," researching bomb-making, collecting a "virtually complete" library of Inspire, an al Qaeda linked magazine, the purchase of a handgun.

The prosecutor also walked jurors through the government's version of the hunt for the Tsarnaev brothers in the days after the bombing: the killing of Collier with a shot between the eyes, the carjacking of an SUV, a police chase, a gunfight in which the brothers tossed two pressure-cooker bombs at officers. "It exploded with a thunderous boom and shrapnel rained down on the officers," Weinreb said.

— Tom Winter and Jon Schuppe

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Lawyer for Boston Marathon bomb suspect: 'It was him'

G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Special for USA TODAY 1:51 p.m. EST March 4, 2015

Here are the facts in the case against Boston Marathon Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

(Photo: Scott Eisen, Getty Images)

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BOSTON — Almost two years after twin bombings rocked the Boston Marathon, this city and the nation, the trial of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev opened Wednesday with his lawyer admitting "It was him."
Defense lawyer Judy Clarke pleaded with a federal jury to approach the case with an open mind -- and suggested Tsarnaev's brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind of the April 2013 attack that killed three people and injured more than 260.
The trial began with opening statements from both sides in a courtroom packed with victims, family members, media and members of the public. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Weinreb went first, quickly describing a gory scene of carnage, perpetrated by a cowardly bomber who targeted a group of children when twin blasts rocked a crowded street near the finish line.
"The defendant's goal that day was to maim and kill as many victims as possible," Weinreb said. "He believed that he was a soldier in a holy war against Americans. He believed he had taken a step toward reaching paradise. That was his motive for committing these crimes."
Weinreb added that Tsarnaev, 21, "believed the United States government is the enemy of Muslim people."
Tsarnaev faces 30 charges in connection with blasts. He is also charged in the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer days after the bombings.
Seventeen of the counts carry the death penalty.
Tsarnaev is accused of conspiring with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed four days after the blasts as the brothers fled police. Hours after his brother's death, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found wounded and hiding in a boat in a backyard in Watertown, about 10 miles west of Boston.
Clarke acknowledged her client was involved in the "senseless, horribly misguided acts carried out by two brothers — 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev became obsessed with Islamic extremism, Clarke said. He traveled to Russia and explored violent jihad there for six months. Clarke said Tamerlan had a special kind of influence on his brother "dictated by his age, their culture and Tamerlan's sheer force of personality."
"It was Tamerlan Tsarnaev who self-radicalized," Clarke said. "It was Dzhokhar who followed."
Before opening statements began, however, Judge George O'Toole ruled that Tsarnaev's legal team generally won't be permitted to focus on Tamerlan's influence. Twice he cut off Clarke when she pressed the issue with the jury.
Clarke acknowledged that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, then 19, wrote the words found scrawled in pencil in the boat where he was captured. But she rejected claims by prosecutors that it was her client's "manifesto."
"He wrote words that he had read and heard: that the U.S. was responsible for the suffering of Muslims," Clarke said.
Weinreb made clear that video evidence will be key in the trial. He said surveillance video from The Forum restaurant, near where the second bomb went off, will show Dzhokhar Tsarnaev approach with a backpack, drop his shoulder and leave the scene — full of children — without his backpack.
Tsarnaev walked to a safe distance after the first bomb went off, Weinreb said, and remotely detonated the pressure cooker bomb hidden in the backpack.
Clarke acknowledged that her client dropped the backpack outside The Forum and later hid in a boat in Watertown: "It was him," Clarke said, referring to her client.
The reason why he dropped the backpack, she said, is "where we disagree" with prosecutors.
Weinreb said other video from MIT allegedly shows Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev approaching the cruiser of Sean Collier, the MIT security officer who was killed during the marathon bombing manhunt. The MIT video didn't capture the actual shooting, but forensic evidence will prove Tsarnaev guilty, Weinreb said.
The first witness to take the stand was Thomas Grilk, executive director of the Boston Athletic Association, which has organized the Boston Marathon since inception in 1897.
Jurors viewed a silent video from the finish line. It showed runners crossing the line, then a fireball in the crowd. As smoke rose, police in fluorescent jackets ran onto the course.
Grilk said injured spectators were brought into a medical tent, which was quickly filled with victims.
"Everyone who entered that tent alive is alive today," Grilk said. Tsarnaev did not make eye contact with Grilk during his testimony. He mostly looked down at papers in front of him.
The second witness on the stand was Shane O'Hara, manager of Marathon Sports, a running shoe retailer located on Boyston Street, just steps from the Boston Marathon finish line.
When a bomb went off, the store window's exterior pane shattered.
Store surveillance video viewed by the jury shows men grabbing apparel off hangers and rushing outside to make tourniquets and stop bleeding. An injured person is lying in the doorway.
"One of the things that haunt me is who needed help first, who was injured more than another," O'Hara said. "It was like a scene from Saving Private Ryan or Platoon – something I never thought I'd see in real life."
Weinreb asked about the sounds O'Hara heard.
"I heard a voice saying, 'Stay with me! Stay with me!,'" O'Hara said.
The trial was much anticipated here, and spectators began lining up outside the courthouse at 5 a.m. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev entered the courtroom shortly after 9 a.m., his once-shaggy beard trimmed and partially shaven. He wore an open-necked collared shirt and dark sport jacket. He smiled very slightly when greeting his attorneys. He did not look at the crowd.
Among dozens of bombing victims in the courtroom were Heather Abbott and Marc Fucarile. Neither used crutches or a wheelchair, though both lost a leg in the blast.
Security at the courthouse was exceptionally tight. Boston police closed off streets that are normally open, even during high-profile trials. A helicopter patrolled the skies, and police boats kept watch in Boston Harbor.
If the jury convicts Tsarnaev, the trial will move to a second phase to determine his punishment. The only two options available for the jury are life in prison or the death penalty.
Tsarnaev's defense lawyers tried four times to have the trial moved out of Boston, arguing that the scale of the attack was so vast that every potential juror could already know the case on a personal level. It was the largest act of terrorism in Boston's history, and its effects rippled across the region.

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They were talking about the evidence presented in this trial

One little thing they kind of glossed over and "simply reported it" without comment.

The day of the bombing, the suspect wired 900 US Dollars to somewhere in RUSSIA.

Interesting.

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The day of the bombing, the suspect wired 900 US Dollars to somewhere in RUSSIA.

Interesting.

Very telling. I would have a hard time thinking this fact does not bear some significance.

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I understand these two asshats were from that region.

Maybe he was sending money to a girl or something because he knew he'd get caught?

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Mentioned this elsewhere.

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Glenn Beck Defies Clinton-appointed Judge’s Order to Out Confidential Source of Watch-listed Saudi

Posted on August 27, 2016 by creeping

The Obama, and soon-to-be Clinton administration – with Beck’s help – will not tolerate exposing Saudi terror links.

So far, Beck’s team has not complied but this has case could have major implications. Source: Glenn Beck producer defies judge’s order to name sources – POLITICO

A producer for conservative media host Glenn Beck is declining to comply with a judge’s order to identify the sources for reports accusing a Saudi Arabian student of involvement in the deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line in 2013.

U.S. District Court Judge Patti Saris, acting on a defamation suit brought by Saudi Abdulrahman Alharbi, instructed Beck, two of his producers and related companies to come forward by Wednesday with the names of the sources for the accusations Beck persisted in leveling even after senior U.S. officials publicly cleared the student.

However, a lawyer for Beck’s operation and producer Joe Weasel said Wednesday that he will not name the sources, previously identified as veteran officials of the Department of Homeland Security.

“Defendants cannot disclose the identities of Confidential Sources 1 and 2 for several compelling reasons. First and foremost, as a matter of fundamental journalistic integrity, Defendants cannot disclose the identities of the Confidential Sources without their authorization,” attorney Michael Grygiel said in a letter to Saris on Wednesday afternoon.

Grygiel said the sources were told of the judge’s demand, but “were unwilling to be identified,” despite the fact that Saris said she would keep their names out of the court record and bar those involved in the litigation from revealing who the sources are.

Beck’s lawyer also appeared to echo a public claim by Beck this month that the sources could be harmed, or possibly even killed, if they were publicly named.

“As previously represented to the Court, Defendants are justifiably concerned that substantial harm could come to the Confidential Sources if they are identified. Second, if Mr. Weasel were to disclose the identities of the Confidential Sources, it is a near certainty that no confidential sources would ever again speak to Mr. Weasel or The Blaze Inc. and its affiliates, to the detriment of an informed public,” Grygiel wrote.

The letter says Weasel worked for The Blaze “at the time” of the 2013 marathon reports, but it does not say if he still works for the firm or for Beck. A Beck spokesman did not immediately respond to a query on the point.

Weasel’s refusal to name the sources creates the possibility that he could be held in contempt of court and jailed, although Weasel is not a defendant in the case so there could be more legal hoops to jump through to go after him personally. Saris could impose fines on The Blaze Inc. or take action to limit the company’s defenses in the lawsuits, such as instructing a jury that it could infer that the sources did not exist.

It seems less likely that Beck would be held in contempt personally because Grygiel’s letter says the host had no contact with the sources “and could not identify” them.

It’s unclear whether mainstream journalists and other First Amendment advocates who have fought to protect sources in other instances will rally around Beck and Weasel as the judge mulls what action to take in the fight involving the polarizing conservative commentator.

In his letter, Grygiel asked Saris to set a conference to discuss what sanctions should be imposed due to the failure to comply with the judge’s order.

An attorney for Alharbi, Peter Haley, declined to comment on the development.

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Saris joined the court in 1993 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.

Alharbi was not your average Saudi Muslim in the U.S.

• He was on terror watch list and had a prior file (before it was disappeared).
• He had visited the Obama White House multiple times since 2009.
• Michelle Obama Visited him in the hospital after the bombing.
• He then joined Obama at the White House for a July 4 event.
• Before he was reportedly hastily deported.

More via “Innocent” Saudi has ties to several Al-Qaeda Terrorists.

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Bunch of horseshit. Media does not have to do that shit.....