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Al Qaeda magazine found on laptop of bomber's widow ... traces of explosive residue throughout home
(UK) Daily Mail ^ | May 5, 2013 | Lydia Warren and Snejana Farberov

Posted on 05/05/2013 6:00:49 AM PDT by Zakeet

Complete Headline: Al Qaeda magazine found on laptop of bomber's widow: Suspicion over FBI Tsarnaev's wife grows after radical Islamist files found along with traces of explosive residue throughout her home

Federal officials investigating the Boston bombings have discovered radical Islamist materials on a computer belonging to the widow of the deceased suspect, it has been revealed.

Katherine Russell, 24, has repeatedly claimed through her attorney that she knew nothing about the deadly April 15 bombings allegedly set off by her late husband, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar.

However, the discovery of al Qaeda’s Inspire magazine on Russell’s computer, along with the presence of explosive residue throughout their home, have raised new questions about Russell's possible involvement in the act of terror.

According to a government document obtained by NBC News, an analysis of the bombs used at the Boston Marathon and pipe bombs that the Tsarnaevs had allegedly thrown at police may have been built following instructions that appeared in an Inspire article titled: Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.

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Authorities are skeptical of her insistence that she played no role in the attack or in helping the brothers escape the authorities following the release of the photographs, the Times reported.

A source told CNN that the bombs were built in the apartment that Tsarnaev shared with Russell and their three-year-old daughter. Residue samples were found on the kitchen table, the kitchen sink, and the bathtub, the source said.

Her silence comes as sources told the newspaper that the fingerprints and female DNA found on at least one of the bombs did not belong to her. Authorities had taken a sample from her this week.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bbevidence; bbjihad; bombing; boston; bostonbombing; muslimwomen; tamerlanwife; terror; tsarnaev; waronterror
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To: Zakeet; OwenKellogg; bunster; thouworm; maggief; onyx; AllAmericanGirl44; ConservativeMan55; ...

Boston Bombing ping!


21 posted on 05/05/2013 7:13:59 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: txrangerette

I wish to respectfully disagree with you:

“I will tell you, that YOU know as well as I do that what I’m saying about her enslavement by the death cult is true, and that she is not a free and independent agent in this.”

She is an American. If you excuse her as just being caught up in it... I assume you are similarly excusing the youngest bomber?

And if you aren’t...why not? After all ... it appears that he was enslaved by a death cult, too.


22 posted on 05/05/2013 7:14:23 AM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Zakeet.


23 posted on 05/05/2013 7:26:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: txrangerette
The dividing line is when she became hostage to the death cult.

This "hostage" spent a lot of time at mom and dad's house -- so she had options to get out of her situation.

And if she didn't then she does now and yet she continues to wear the garb of the death cult.

She can't have it both ways -- ohh I forgot -- she's an all American girl -- she's privileged and can have it both ways.

24 posted on 05/05/2013 7:26:48 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Winstons Julia

I don’t know but it seems to me if Dead Bomber had been a right wing Christian ...the wife would have already been in jail for participating.

It’s true she might not have known...but there is pretty convincing evidence that would have got a Christian hauled into jail and treated like a suspect.


25 posted on 05/05/2013 7:27:55 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

That’s a damn fine point, right thar, that is...


26 posted on 05/05/2013 7:29:56 AM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: txrangerette

I’m not attacking your views; just disagreeing with some of them.

You’re right that women who belong to the blood cult of Islam do what they have to do in order to survive. But this girl wasn’t born into it. She willingly and knowingly converted to it, and then married her terrorist AFTER he violently assaulted her.

To say she was enslaved implies a lack of power on her part, but that’s just not accurate. She voluntarily renounced her way of life and jumped into the shackles....even after her slavemaster beat her up.

Also, the girl initially dreamed of going into the Peace Corps, so she was most likely a stupid leftist who refused to open her eyes to the reality of Islam. Where she’s concerned, I have zero sympathy. The cops can pursue her into the ground for all I care.


27 posted on 05/05/2013 7:31:39 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ( (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization))
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To: txrangerette

Tamerlan’s family is not all that opposed to divorce. His parents divorced. His sister divorced. Your sweet little all-American wife of his apparently has a strong family unit of support for her so she could have gotten out of the marriage any time she wanted. Her neighbors have said they heard loud arguments and heard her yelling. Sure, it’s also been reported he was demanding and called her every name in the book but it appears she was able to hold her own. He didn’t lock her inside the 800 sq ft apartment 24/7. She had an outside job, a car, a computer and cell phone, and was able to go to her parents’ anytime she wished. Heck, Tamerlan was in Russia for six months but instead of getting out she welcomed him back with open arms. No, I disagree with you. She could have left any time she wanted. She made the decision to stay. He’s been dead and gone for 3 weeks yet she’s made the decision to not shed her potato sacks and put on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. No, I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for her.


28 posted on 05/05/2013 7:48:47 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: CatherineofAragon

I recall reading that he beat up his first girlfriend and was arrested for it. But I don’t remember reading he beat his wife.

But I agree that her liberal family probably set her up to be ‘tolerant’.

She wasn’t married all that long and she had a baby, and further she worked 80 hours a week while her loser husband stayed home with the baby.

A young woman with a baby will often bend to her husband’s will even if he is a loser. Later after she wises up she will with leave the loser unless her life is threatened, and then she looks for an escape. But it’s not easy as it sounds.

We need to hear her story and the stories of her friends and family. It will come out.

The female DNA in the found explosives was not hers. But with accessory to murder hanging over head she’d better start singing.


29 posted on 05/05/2013 7:50:12 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: Zakeet; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ASA Vet

Thanks to the Brit reporters for doing the reporting job on the Islamofacist serial killers and their support groups. This is a job the left wing mediots refuse to do;

Will they find out that her rich daddy has been a big time donor to local rats in Ma. and to the Obozo thugs?


30 posted on 05/05/2013 7:50:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I'm afraid to go visit any American college because of all the foreign students with bombs.)
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To: Zakeet


31 posted on 05/05/2013 7:51:23 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Katherine wasn’t the domestic abuse case. That was Nadine Lopez Ascencao who had been dating him since 2006 in high school. She states he was a bully in high school and wanted her to convert, wear hijab and share his hatred of the US. They were living together when the assault occurred on July 28, 2009. The case was dismissed in 2010. That was her wake up call so she cut all ties with him.


32 posted on 05/05/2013 7:57:53 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: CatherineofAragon; All

I several of the pictures of her posted recently ( I’m not gonna bother to link to them) it may be just the loose fitting clothes she’s wearing, but it looks like a “baby bump.” Ya think?


33 posted on 05/05/2013 7:59:25 AM PDT by ken5050 (Not every Muslim is a terrorist, but just about every terrorist is a Muslim..)
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To: Hostage
We need to hear her story and the stories of her friends and family. It will come out.

Her Aunt Elizabeth Russell, of MA, hasn't’t seen Katherine in four years because her “whole path” caused friction and an estrangement in the family. Her family didn't approve of Tamerlan and most refused to attend their wedding. Her high school friends say she cut ties with them soon after graduation. A few friends say they didn't like Tamerlan because he was demanding and cussed her. One neighbor says she was wearing hijab before they were married so it may be she was going that direction anyway especially since she was interested in the Peace Corps. Some neighbors say Tamerlan would visit at her home in RI with her but others say they haven't seen him there in a year so maybe there was a rift on the Russell front. A few weeks after she graduated from high school, she was arrested for shoplifting at an Old Navy but the charges were later dismissed. There's been hints she was pregnant when they got married. Certainly, her family may have set her up to be "tolerant" but it also seems she was into teen rebellion and no one was going to tell her what to do.

34 posted on 05/05/2013 8:13:02 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: ken5050

Yep, I’ve posted the same. Let’s hope there isn’t another spawn of the devil on the way. The only one in this whole mess I feel sorry for is Zahira, the 3 year old. Imagine having the bombing hanging over her head when she starts school and for the rest of her life. If, and that’s a huge IF, Katherine gets out of this, her best bet would be to get out of those potato sacks and back into jeans and t-shirt, moves clear across country and starts using a different version of her name and uses her daughter’s middle name. A complete restart so she puts as much distance as possible between her daughter and the horrible monster her father was.


35 posted on 05/05/2013 8:22:12 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: bgill

Teenage rebellion is normal. But embracing Islam is not. And certainly engaging in terrorism as an accomplice is a line that even the most rebellious of teenagers will not cross.

I would like to see our teenagers start ranting to Muslims how they are Westernphobic! rather than take the Muslim and Media slurs of Islamophobe!

I don’t trust Muslims at all. You never see them debate and condemn in earnest the Jihad sects of their members. Any of the rare condemnations are for show only. All of the Muslims in the USA have an air of separateness “We will never join in with the Melting Pot that is America”. To Hell with them.


36 posted on 05/05/2013 8:28:02 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: Hostage
Yes, I understand that it's not easy to leave a marriage. But again, she married him after being assaulted by him (excerpt below). I just have no sympathy for such stupidity....not to mention the fact that she brought a child into an abusive situation.

"Katherine was a student at Suffolk University, Boston, when she met Tsaraev, then a promising boxer and athlete.

It was during that time that she converted and her youthful priorities appear to have changed as she left in 2010 without graduating.

By then her relationship with Tsaraev was intense. Not even his arrest for violently assaulting her in 2009 could change that."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312588/Tamerlan-Tsarnaevs-wife-How-Katherine-Russell-Muslim-convert-widow-Boston-bomber.html

37 posted on 05/05/2013 8:33:12 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ( (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization))
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To: Hostage

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312588/Tamerlan-Tsarnaevs-wife-How-Katherine-Russell-Muslim-convert-widow-Boston-bomber.html


38 posted on 05/05/2013 8:33:48 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ( (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization))
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To: ken5050

Would not be surprised.


39 posted on 05/05/2013 8:35:04 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ( (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization))
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To: CatherineofAragon

Agree. Quite a stretch to make the assumption that this idiot is a victim of circumstances considering the fact that her home was the bomb factory. It has been repeatedly claimed that she worked so many hours that she had an excuse for supposedly being oblivious to the bomb-making in her own home. That claim originated from her lawyer.

Not every female jihadist is coerced.


40 posted on 05/05/2013 8:37:51 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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