Moscow Times Article about Tamerlin Tsarnaev

NoPartyAffiliation · Apr 24, 2013

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/bomb-suspect-influenced-by-mysterious-misha/479187.html

Interesting story I caught in the Moscow Times today.

Anyone heard about this in the American press?

Professor Peabody · Apr 24, 2013

It seems only the foreign press. The U.S. Main stream media isn't saying anything. If the reports are true about the brothers being part of a 12 man cell, we should hear from the other 10 relatively soon.

NoPartyAffiliation · Apr 24, 2013

Professor Peabody said: ↑

It seems only the foreign press. The U.S. Main stream media isn't saying anything. If the reports are true about the brothers being part of a 12 man cell, we should hear from the other 10 relatively soon.
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It's good to read sources outside the US...

waltky · May 5, 2013

G-men puttin' pressure on Tamerlan's widow, friends...

Experts: Feds pressure widow, pals in bomb case
May 4,`13 -- Every time the widow of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev leaves her parents' house, federal agents watching the residence follow her in unmarked vehicles.

Federal authorities are placing intense pressure on what they know to be the inner circle of the two bombing suspects, arresting three college buddies of surviving brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and keeping Tamerlan's 24-year-old widow, Katherine Russell, in the public eye with their open surveillance and leaks to media about investigators' focus on her. Legal experts say it's part of their quest not just to determine whether Russell and the friends are culpable but also to push for as much information as possible regarding whether the bombing suspects had ties to a terrorism network or accomplices working domestically or abroad. A primary goal is to push the widow and friends to give their full cooperation, according to the experts.

David Zlotnick, a professor of law at Roger Williams University and former federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia, said authorities may be tracking Russell closely because they feel she's not being completely honest about all she knows. "It seems to me they don't believe her yet," he said. Dzhokhar is in a prison hospital, facing a potential death sentence if convicted of the terrorism plot that authorities allege the 19-year-old and his late 26-year-old brother carried out April 15. Twin pressure cooker bombs detonated near the race's finish line, leaving three people dead and injuring more than 260 others. Tamerlan died in a gunfight with authorities April 19, a day after authorities released photos of the suspects.

Tamerlan's widow has been ensconced at her parents' North Kingstown, R.I., home since then. Much about her remains a mystery, including what she knew or witnessed in the weeks, months and years before the bombings, and what she saw and did in the days after. It's unclear when Russell last communicated with her husband, but her lawyer, Amato DeLuca, told The Associated Press in an interview last month that the last time she saw him was before she went to work April 18. DeLuca said Tuesday that Russell had met with law enforcement "for many hours over the past week," and would continue to do so in the coming days. He previously told the AP that Russell didn't suspect her husband of anything before the bombings, and nothing seemed amiss in the days after.

Zlotnick said the fact that charges have been brought against the younger brother's three friends from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth over allegations they covered up for Dzhokhar indicates authorities are willing to go after the widow for similar actions. That puts pressure on Russell to cooperate. Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, students from Kazakhstan, were charged this week with conspiring to obstruct justice by taking a backpack with fireworks and a laptop from Dzhokhar's dorm room, while Robel Phillipos was charged with lying to investigators about the visit to the dorm room. All three are 19 years old and face the possibility of five or more years in federal prison.

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waltky · May 20, 2013

'Many Tsnarnaevs'...

Dagestans Shadow War, Fought by Many Tsarnaevs
May 19, 2013 The slender man of 22, a former guerrilla fighter, was making another hangdog, penitent appearance at the behest of city officials here. It was brainwashing that led him to take up arms against the state and go to the forest, he said, and his sincere desire was to forget that it had ever happened.

Most of the time, people like this young man, Dzhabrail Altysultanov, do not come back alive, the deputy mayor of Khasavyurt, a city near the Chechen border, acknowledged matter-of-factly, as a waitress brought a steaming platter of roasted meat. If Mr. Altysultanov had not surrendered, the official said, they would have had to gather him up in pieces. The younger man looked down at his plate. The six-month sojourn of the suspect in the Boston bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in the Russian territory of Dagestan last year has drawn unusual attention to the low-boil guerrilla warfare of the North Caucasus. A picture has come together of Mr. Tsarnaev as an outsider feeling his way around the edges of an insurgency that looked very different from the stories of partisan fighting that he had heard growing up among Chechen refugees.

Investigators are pushing to better understand what Mr. Tsarnaev was looking for when he traveled here. But what he found was a shadow war that takes place around the edges of normal life, hidden in plain sight. Young men vanish from their homes, only to reappear in tallies of the dead after scorching counterterrorism operations. Though the number of fighters is probably no higher than a few hundred, law enforcement officials say, it is backed by a sprawling and invisible support network thousands of ordinary people, even police officers, who assist them, out of fear or sympathy. It is a society engaged in an intimate tug-of-war over young men who slip easily into the ranks of the insurgency. You want to talk about Tsarnaevs, said the mayor of this city on the Chechen border, a barrel-chested local strongman named Saigidpasha Umakhanov. Do you know how many Tsarnaevs we have?

People praying recently in a mosque in Khasavyurt, Russia, in Dagestan. The region is the arena for low-boil guerrilla warfare.

Mr. Umakhanov, a wrestling coach, knows just how close the combatants in this war are. The guerrillas recruit athletes, and five of his star pupils have risen to become insurgent commanders, or emirs. One of his deputies was forced to resign last year after his son was accused of aiding an armed group. The fighters visit Khasavyurt to hunt down city police officers 36 have been killed since 2009 or to slip flash drives with videotaped messages into the mailboxes of officials or businessmen, asking for money, lest God punish you with our hands. Last October, someone came for the mayor himself. A bomb went off beside his motorcade, leaving behind a crater 3 feet deep and 10 feet wide.

The state answers with its own thunder. In April, armored combat vehicles and masked commandos surrounded the mountain village of Gimry, a stronghold of Islamism and defiance to Russia, and ordered women and children to evacuate. Troops shelled a neighboring gorge and then used ropes to haul out the bodies of three suspected militants. When residents were allowed to return a week later, many homes had been ransacked, some reduced to rubble. In Dagestan, with a population of nearly 2.9 million, about 350 people were killed in fighting here in 2012, of which two-thirds were militants and one-third police officers, according to the news service Caucasian Knot. The message from the authorities is clear: Once a young man has taken part in an attack, he is unlikely to live long.

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