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Friend of Boston Marathon jihad bombers attacked FBI agent after agreeing to give statement about his involvement in jihad murders

Mar 25, 2014 3:04 pm By Robert Spencer

Ibragim-TodashevAt least two of the three victims of the September 11, 2011 throat-slashing were Jews. The Qur’an designates the Jews the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82) and directs believers to “strike the necks” of the unbelievers (47:4).

Hamas-linked CAIR is enraged that Todashev was killed, but now the Obama Justice Department, despite its anxiousness to appease Islamic supremacists, have declared that the shooting was justified in self-defense, as Todashev was running amok in one last jihad.

“Friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect threatened FBI agent, prosecutor says,” from the Associated Press, March 25 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

ORLANDO, Fla. –  A friend of one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects threatened an FBI agent and a Massachusetts state trooper with a long pole and was fatally shot by the agent just moments after he had agreed to give a statement about his involvement in a triple slaying, a Florida prosecutor said Tuesday.

State Attorney Jeff Ashton said in a report the agent was justified in shooting Ibragim Todashev, 27, last May. The officers were questioning Todashev about the 2011 slaying in Waltham, Mass., and he was about to write a statement when his mood went from cooperative to agitated, according to the report.

Todashev, a mixed martial arts fighter, flipped a coffee table in the air, knocking down the FBI agent and causing a bloody gash on the agent’s head. Todashev then ran past the two officers, into the kitchen and returned with a pole — a long metal handle of a broom or mop — that he pointed at the Massachusetts officer, the report said.

The FBI agent fired three or four shots at Todashev as he advanced on the trooper, and Todashev dropped to his knees but then lunged at the officer, and the FBI agent fired three or four more shots, the report said.

“The one common thread among all was the observation that he was, at his core, a fearless fighter,” Ashton said in a letter to FBI Director James Comey. “Perhaps on this occasion, he simply reverted to that basic aspect of his personality and chose to go down fighting.”

Separately, the U.S. Justice Department also concluded Tuesday that there was no basis for federal criminal charges against the FBI agent. The federal inquiry echoed the Florida report in saying that Todashev implicated himself in the triple-murder.

Federal authorities have said in court filings that Todashev also implicated Tsarnaev in the Waltham slayings, but the Justice Department report said the details of the confession were not being released publicly at the request of prosecutors in Massachusetts. The Justice Department report said both men shared an interest in mixed martial arts and were suspected in the Waltham murders.

In the Waltham case, three men were found in an apartment with their necks slit and their bodies reportedly covered with marijuana. One of the victims was a boxer and friend of Tsarnaev, who had befriended Todashev when Todashev lived in Boston.

In the Florida shooting, the FBI agent from Boston and two Massachusetts State Police officers had questioned Todashev at his apartment for five hours before the fatal shooting, the report said. The FBI had become interested in Todashev in the days after the Boston marathon bombing last April because he was friends with one of the suspects Tsarnaev. By then, Todashev also had become a “person of interest” in the Waltham slayings, according to the report, and FBI agents had questioned him several times in the weeks before he was killed.

Todashev’s family has raised doubts about the account provided by law enforcement, saying that Todashev was recovering from knee surgery and was limping at the time he was killed.

Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Tampa, which is conducting its own investigation into the fatal shooting, said Ashton’s investigative focus was very narrow.

“It’s very important that this isn’t whether the agent was justified in shooting,” Shibly said. “It’s about the pattern of abuse that occurred before, during and after the questioning. That won’t be covered in a criminal investigation.”

Todashev’s live-in girlfriend and other friends been deported since the shooting.

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  1. VampireJack says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 3:07 pm

    Since when did Lionel Messi convert to Islam!

  2. Mr. Squat says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 3:08 pm

    1. Will there be any investigation of the process and gov’t officials who allowed these people to settle in the US?

    2. Will there be any change in policy regarding “refugees” from such places?

    I already know the answer:

    No and No.

  3. mariam rove says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 3:11 pm

    Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Tampa, which is conducting its own investigation into the fatal shooting, said Ashton’s investigative focus was very narrow…..

    Another word do not defend your selves against Muslim aggressors is what Hassan is saying. M

    • jihad3tracker says

      Mar 25, 2014 at 3:26 pm

      And CAIR wonders why Americans have Islamo-nausea ??!!

      Hassan Shibly is the latest cretin among dozens of Muslim spokesperson for Islamists in the U.S. to shoot themselves in the private parts — time and time again — with their totally clueless insensitive remarks….

      After reading reportage of such hilarious antics for several years, I have come to the conclusion that no vehement adherent to Mohammad’s view of human relations — which we can shorten to “CTOKT” — ( Convince Them Or Kill Them ) has an IQ above our Neanderthal progenitors.

      And that’s probably a slander against Cavemen.

      • john spielman says

        Mar 25, 2014 at 3:57 pm

        it’s more than Islamonausea, it’s full blown Islamoloathing!

  4. mortimer says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 3:17 pm

    The real question is HOW TO DEPORT all such people BEFORE they ‘run amok’ and commit attempted beheadings next September 11.

    We demand to be safe in our own country. Deport all jihadists before they do harm.

    • mariam rove says

      Mar 25, 2014 at 3:19 pm

      Or better yet..the question is how the hell they get in, in the first place? M

    • eib says

      Mar 25, 2014 at 3:21 pm

      We don’t need to deport them.
      All that is necessary is for us to tell them to their faces that their culture and religion are corrupt and false every single day.
      If you are Christian, make sure you emphasize that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Mohammed is a devil’s servant.
      Pray right in their presence, they won’t be able to stand it.
      Because they know they’re doomed. They would not be so violent if they felt assured of their salvation.
      Make the point and make it often– you are a Westerner, and they are not.

      • Salah says

        Mar 26, 2014 at 12:58 am

        “All that is necessary is for us to tell them to their faces that their culture and religion are corrupt and false every single day.”

        You’re absolutely right. We need to get rid of our PC elites and force the MSM to finally publish the truth about Islam. Blogs like JW should be openly discussed on every TV channel.
        Freedom of speech is more than enough to bring Islam to its knees.

        The Perfect Man of Islam
        (a simple video, yet, was removed from Youtube more than 600 times)

        http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

      • Defcon 4 says

        Mar 26, 2014 at 2:55 pm

        @eib

        You’re delusional. Why don’t your try implementing your plan in:

        1. Somalia
        2. Indonesia
        3. Malaysia
        4. Soddy Barbaria
        5. Gaza
        6. Iran
        7. Iraq

        bring Salah along for laughs. Better make sure your will is made
        out and your life insurance paid up before you go.

        • Salah says

          Mar 26, 2014 at 11:46 pm

          Please read the comment of eib carefully.
          He’s talking about the West. We, in the West, need to use the freedom of speech we “still” have, to explain to Muslims why Islam is corrupt and false.
          He’s not talking about using freedom of speech in countries where there is no freedom of speech.

  5. Champ ✿ says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    “The one common thread among all was the observation that he was, at his core, a fearless fighter,” Ashton said in a letter to FBI Director James Comey. “Perhaps on this occasion, he simply reverted to that basic aspect of his personality and chose to go down fighting.”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    I wouldn’t credit this man with being a “fearless fighter”, but a demon possessed SOA!

    Once you understand how inherently evil islam is, then you’re able to grasp the nature of its followers.

    • Mr. Squat says

      Mar 25, 2014 at 3:25 pm

      “The one common thread among all was the observation that he was, at his core, a fearless fighter,” Ashton said in a letter to FBI Director James Comey.

      ———————–

      And this Ashton character is the DA? Stunning. Is he interested in converting?

      • Champ ✿ says

        Mar 25, 2014 at 4:16 pm

        No kidding, Mr. Squat …good point!

  6. Michael Brennick says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 4:06 pm

    “The one common thread among all was the observation that he was, at his core, a fearless fighter,” Ashton said in a letter to FBI Director James Comey.”

    AKA: Agent Bill Maher.

  7. Maja says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 4:13 pm

    Why is it we can’t close CAIR down and deport Muslims. American born or not they want to kill and have no respect even for their own people much less the rest of us.

    CAIR suborns this violence under the guise of a nice legal organization.

    Read the book Infidel. It’s a few years old now but good learning experience. If I had the $$ I would send a coypu to all 3 branches of the government. I just don’t think they can read.

  8. Custos Custodum says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 6:00 pm

    Color me skeptical on the “chose to go down fighting” talking points. Todashev’s death in a room full of federal and state law enforcement officers came at a very convenient juncture.

    The throat-slashing murder of three Jews on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 perpetrated by Todashev and Tsarnaev was shaping up as a massive public relations nightmare for the Muslim-sponsored Obama administration.

    Even the New York Times would have had to afford at least token coverage to a Todashev/Tsarnaev murder trial relating to the 9/11 murders.

    Putting the most charitable interpretation on what may have transpired, Todashev may intentionally have been given a chance to act up, with deadly consequences.

  9. pongidae rex says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 7:11 pm

    Anyone who embraces Islam and follows it to its logical end must become become a Terrorist. Most people are halted at some point on this path by their basic humanity, but not all. Muslims are to be pitied more than feared. This religion is like a fatal virus that infects the human mind.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 2:59 pm

      @pongidae rex

      “Muslims are to be pitied more than feared.” Wow, why don’t you try spouting that theory to the Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Baha’i, Jews, Zoroastrians and atheists being murdered and persecuted by muslimes all over the islamic world today?

  10. Angemon says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    ““The one common thread among all was the observation that he was, at his core, a fearless fighter,” Ashton said in a letter to FBI Director James Comey. “Perhaps on this occasion, he simply reverted to that basic aspect of his personality and chose to go down fighting.””

    Fearless fighter? Chose to go down fighting? He was an apostate then.

    “Separately, the U.S. Justice Department also concluded Tuesday that there was no basis for federal criminal charges against the FBI agent. The federal inquiry echoed the Florida report in saying that Todashev implicated himself in the triple-murder.”

    If only he graduated from Smart Ass University…

    http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server900/cwghcfn/products/249/images/411/Rule1_Prof_of_Phil__01664__46939.1361641925.1280.1280.jpg

    That’s what he gets for being a dumb ass.

  11. Paul Brennan says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 9:03 pm

    I hold no brief for jihadis but with all due respect, this account of the shooting is quite frankly simply fantastic and incredible. I do believe this account for one moment.

  12. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 6:22 am

    “Stabbed in the neck” was the police description at the time (as also of the French soldier attacked in Paris after the Woolwich jihad murder). After the Boston jihad bombing, when interest was re-kindled in this triple murder, the deceased are described as having their throats violently slit open from side to side.
    There is a need to “translate” police-speak. It is infected.

  13. bill says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 6:47 am

    I am not in sympathy with the deceased or CAIR but I question whether it was necessary to shoot someone again who was not armed with a firearm, had been shot three or four times already and was on his knees. It seems excessive.
    I would have thought that officers trained with firearms would know how many shots they fired. So why in both discharges is it stated 3 or 4 shots were fired?
    My point is that such excess of force plays into the hands of organistaions like CAIR

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