The old saying is "the apple does not fall far from the tree" and it is beginning to look like
it is true in the case of the Boston bombers. The more we learn, the more it appears as if
"Mommy dearest" is the head of a jihadist group and to prevent her from being caught,
she sent her sons to do the dirty work. And then when they get caught, she claims that
they were set up!
OK, so that is one view point, but could she be right? Could this all be trumped up? Could
these two be just the best stooges? Could the FBI or some other agency have set them
up? A hundred years ago, probably not. Today, who knows.
What is your opinion?
Conservative Tom
Mother of Boston bombing suspects talked jihad with now-dead son in 2011 recordings
The call between Zubeidat Tsarnaev and 26-year-old Tamerlan was intercepted by Russian wiretaps, but the information was not shared with American authorities at the time, officials said. Another recording of the mother has her talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case.
Comments (142)BY RICH SCHAPIRO / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2013, 7:33 PM
ILKHAM KATSUYEV/AP
Zubeidat Tsarnaev, mother of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was recorded by Russian authorities discussing jihad with Tamerlan in 2011, but the Russians didn’t share that information with American law enforcement officials.
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The mother of the accused Boston Marathon bombers was secretly recorded discussing jihad in a telephone conversation with her now dead-son, officials said Saturday.
The call between Zubeidat Tsarnaev and 26-year-old Tamerlan was intercepted by Russian wiretaps in early 2011.
But the information was not shared with American authorities at the time, officials said.
In a second call, also recorded by a Russian internal security service, the mother was captured talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials said.
The conversations raise new questions about the warnings that the Russians sounded to American authorities about Tamerlan in 2011.
At the time, the Russians told the FBI only that they had concerns that Tamerlan and his mother were religious extremists.
The FBI conducted a limited investigation of Tamerlan, found no terror ties and closed the case in June 2011.
But had the Russians made clear that the former boxer had been recorded talking about jihad, they might have prompted the FBI to carry out a more vigorous investigation.
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Tamerlan (left) and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of using pressure-cooker bombs to cause explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15. Tamerlan died days later in a firefight with the police, while Dzhokhar was apprehended and is currently in the hospital.
Jacqueline Maguire, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Washington Field Office, where that investigation was based, declined to comment.
After Russian officials sounded the alarm about Tamerlan’s radical Islamist views to the CIA in late 2011, the agency recommended putting him on a watch list.
The spy agency shared its concerns with the FBI, Homeland Security, the State Department and the National Counterterrorism Center, a U.S. intelligence official said.
There was no information in the conversation that suggested a plot inside the United States, officials said.
It was not immediately clear why Russian authorities didn’t share more information at the time.
Officials revealed that Zubeidat and Tamerlan, in between vaguely discussing jihad, talked about the possibility of him going to Palestine.
But Tamerlan told his mother he didn’t speak the language there.
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Anzor Tsarnaev (left) and his wife Zubeidat (right), the parents of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — the two men suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings — take part in a news conference. Anzor plans to come to the United States to see his son, Dzhokhar, who is currently in the hospital.
No other information was provided.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, who lives in Dagestan, has vehemently denied that she or her sons were involved in terrorism — accusing American authorities of framing her boys.
But Ruslan Tsarni, an uncle of the Tsarnaev brothers and Zubeidat’s former brother-in-law, said Saturday he believes the mother had a “big-time influence” as her older son swore off boxing and embraced his Muslim faith.
The April 15 explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
Three days later, the brothers executed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer and wounded a transit cop, authorities say
Tamerlan was killed in a firefight with cops. His 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, was found holed up in a boat on April 19, bleeding from his neck and legs.
Dzhokhar has told investigators he and his brother acted alone and were radicalized at home.
The younger Tsarnaev also revealed that the pair, while on the run, discussed traveling to Times Square and setting off more bombs.
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