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Boston bomber’s widow — victim or accomplice?
NY Post ^ | 4-6-14 | Maureen Callahan

Posted on 04/06/2014 6:28:32 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

She was known as Katie, a pretty, popular girl from a well-respected Rhode Island family. In high school, she excelled at music and art and worshipped David Bowie. As a freshman at Suffolk University, she majored in communications, and she and a gaggle of friends modeled themselves after the girls on “Sex and the City.”

She thought about joining the Peace Corps.

That was before 2010, when she met the man she’d drop out of school to marry, the man for whom she’d convert to Islam, the man who, three years later, would leave her with a baby daughter and the threat of jail time.

Today, at 25, Katie Russell is best known as the widow of the Boston bomber. As the first anniversary of the attack nears, she remains one of its biggest mysteries — how she was drawn into her husband’s world, and what she knew about his plans.

In November, Russell’s brother-in-law, Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, will stand trial. Russell has not been charged, nor is it clear whether she’ll be a witness. But authorities still wonder: Was she a willing accomplice? Or a witless victim?

Russell, the oldest of three girls, was raised on a tree-lined street in the comfortable suburb of North Kingston, RI, right off a bike path called Sage Trail. Her dad, Warren, is an emergency-room doctor, her mom, Judith, a nurse.

The girls were raised Catholic and went to public schools. Katie was most comfortable in jeans and T-shirts. “She was a great girl, and a good student, and normal,” a family friend told The Washington Post. “She was normal.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bostonbomber; rhodeisland; suffolkuniversity; widow
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1 posted on 04/06/2014 6:28:32 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Ah yes, “Speedbump” and “Flashbang” AKA “Joker”.

How could Missus Speedbump not have known?


2 posted on 04/06/2014 6:32:44 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

not mutually exclusive terms


3 posted on 04/06/2014 6:36:22 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: afraidfortherepublic
As the first anniversary of the attack nears, she remains one of its biggest mysteries

Not really. The most important and pertinent of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's relationships is with his Uncle Ruslan. Ruslan was married to the daughter of Graham Fuller. Fuller was the top CIA strategists who developed and implemented the plan to recruit Muslims to fight for Uncle Scam in Central Asia.

The plan is similar the current operation where Uncle Scam recruits, trains, arms, and funds Christian slaughtering Al Qaeda foreign mercenaries to attack and overthrow Syria.

4 posted on 04/06/2014 6:44:40 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: babble-on

Exactly. How about Co-dependent Dupe?


5 posted on 04/06/2014 6:44:59 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Accomplice AND terminally stupid.


6 posted on 04/06/2014 6:48:19 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Why have the victims and families been so silent about the obvious incompetence of the Obama regime , ignoring specific warnings about Tamerlane, etc.? I know they’ve seen it hasn’t gotten the Benghazi victims’ anywhere to complain, so different from Cindy Sheehan or Berg; but is that the only reason?


7 posted on 04/06/2014 6:52:25 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Mommas don't let your babies grow up to wear Hijabs.

8 posted on 04/06/2014 6:54:40 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Does she really need to keep using air? She at the very least shared hubbys mindset and we have no use for her kind here. Send her to Chechnaya at least.


9 posted on 04/06/2014 6:57:53 AM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

Fantastic post. Sooo important but SO few know what u just wrote.


10 posted on 04/06/2014 7:01:06 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: afraidfortherepublic

A Muslim Patty Hearst.

The more things change the more they stay the same.


11 posted on 04/06/2014 7:02:03 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

That connection you mentioned makes one wonder if the Tsarnov brothers were CIA recruits gone astray.


12 posted on 04/06/2014 7:04:09 AM PDT by grania
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To: Rodamala

Any American Catholic girl who takes on islam has turned to the devil


13 posted on 04/06/2014 7:07:34 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: grania

Probably a coincidence I’d guess...


14 posted on 04/06/2014 7:10:20 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

bkmk


15 posted on 04/06/2014 7:15:26 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

Sort of a Chieu Hoi program for muslims, eh?


16 posted on 04/06/2014 7:18:29 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Small apartment, using the same computer, on Skype with her hubby everyday while he was in Chechnya, made a call to him to tell him that the police were looking for him, very close with his radical mom, lawyered up and shut up rather quickly, her family quickly puts house up for sale.....

Oh Yeh — and of course still wears her hijab.


17 posted on 04/06/2014 7:23:50 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

~As the first anniversary of the attack nears, she remains one of its biggest mysteries
Not really. The most important and pertinent of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s relationships is with his Uncle Ruslan. Ruslan was married to the daughter of Graham Fuller. Fuller was the top CIA strategists who developed and implemented the plan to recruit Muslims to fight for Uncle Scam in Central Asia.

The plan is similar the current operation where Uncle Scam recruits, trains, arms, and funds Christian slaughtering Al Qaeda foreign mercenaries to attack and overthrow Syria~

Uncle Ruslan might be a KGB flipper. There was an old photo online of young Jihad Mom Zubi Tsarnayeva, her husband and Ruslan wearing Soviet uniform. Maybe double or triple agent.


18 posted on 04/06/2014 7:25:43 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: afraidfortherepublic

She has blood on her hands for sure.


19 posted on 04/06/2014 7:32:45 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I like the way the author simply brushed off the shoplifting incident when she was in high school. I think she was not the perfect little angel the author of this article desperately wants to portray her as.


20 posted on 04/06/2014 8:07:05 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
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