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Accomplice? Boston jihad murderer’s widow refused to cooperate with FBI

Apr 6, 2014 4:31 pm By Robert Spencer

Karima Tsarnaeva“Russell has always claimed to be shocked and appalled by her husband’s actions, and to have had no knowledge whatsoever of what he was planning.” However, in the Tsarnaevs’ “tiny apartment in Cambridge,” the FBI “found bomb-making residue in the kitchen sink, in the bathtub, and on the kitchen table.” How did this bomb-making activity escape Karima Tsarnaeva’s notice in this “tiny apartment”? Also, “phone records show that Russell spoke to Tsarnaev on April 18, and another law-enforcement source told The Weekly Standard that after seeing the brothers identified on television, she called her husband.” She did not, mind you, call the police. And on her laptop, investigators found “the first issue of the al Qaeda online magazine Inspire, which included an article titled ‘How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.’ And “when the FBI showed up at her parents’ home on April 21, 2013, Russell refused to speak with them, and when it was reported, on May 3, that no trace of her DNA was found on any of the explosive material, she made it clear she would not cooperate.” She has “made it clear to her entire family that she is a Muslim and will remain a Muslim. That’s non-negotiable.”

“Boston bomber’s widow — victim or accomplice?,” by Maureen Callahan for the New York Post, April 6 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

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.”

Aside from one incident when she was 18 — she was arrested for shoplifting $67 worth of merchandise at an Old Navy — Russell was never in trouble. (The charges were dropped after she did community service and paid a $200 fine.) Her personal credo, according to high-school friends, was, “Do something about it or stop complaining about it.”

“It was a fairly tight-knit family,” said the family friend, adding that the girls “had plenty of freedom . . . not like some kids where it’s not allowed for boys to see girls or girls to see boys.”

One night in 2009, two years ­after enrolling at Suffolk University in Boston, she met a charismatic young boxer named Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a nightclub. At the time, he had a girlfriend: 19-year-old Nadine Ascencao, whom he had been dating for three years.

But Tsarnaev, who emigrated with his refugee family from a former Soviet republic in 1995, had undergone a sudden religious conversion. In 2008, he went from smoking pot, partying and dressing “like a pimp, kind of ­Eurotrash,” a neighbor said, to hanging out at the local mosque.

“One minute, he’s this funny, normal guy who liked boxing and having fun, the next he’s praying four times a day, watching Islamic videos and talking insane nonsense,” Ascencao told Britain’s Sun tabloid. “Tamerlan said I couldn’t be with him unless I became a Muslim. He wanted me to hate America like he did.”

He became controlling and abusive, telling Ascencao she was no longer allowed to listen to the ­radio or watch TV. She’d lost her virginity to him, but now, he said, they had to stop having sex. As long as they were unmarried, it was against Muslim law. He told her she had to drop all of her old friends and socialize only with Muslim girls.

“He once ripped a pair of my jeans and hit me in the face with them,” she said. Another time, he slammed her head into a car after she wore shorts and a tank to a party. She called 911 but declined to press charges.

Toward the end of their relationship, when Ascencao finally relented and wore a hijab, he’d taunt her about the other American girl he had been seeing, the one who took Islam far more seriously than she did.

“He once made me learn a verse of an Islamic prayer,” she recalled. “And if I got it wrong, he’d say, ‘Well, Katherine can do it.’ ”

In 2009, Tsarnaev dumped ­Ascencao and began seriously seeing Russell. Russell began pulling away from her family and friends. Her parents were suspicious of Tsarnaev, mainly because he had no job and no plans to get one. He told everyone he was going to be an Olympian.

A close family friend told The Washington Post he attempted to intervene and invited Russell to dinner. He was too late. Russell declared that she was becoming a Muslim and that he’d soon be seeing her in a head scarf.

“The psychology of it isn’t ­understood by any of us,” he said. But “Katie didn’t care.”

She was, friends said, infatuated, seemingly oblivious to the stares she was drawing on campus. Russell’s college roommate was convinced it was an abusive relationship.

“She stopped drinking and wouldn’t come around as much and kind of judged us for wanting to go out, and he would forbid her for wanting to go out with us,” she told CBS News. “He became very violent with her and was brainwashing her into converting into Muslim.”

Other roommates told NPR that Tsarnaev called her “slut” and “a prostitute” and threw pieces of furniture at her. Despite his supposed piety, Tsarnaev and Russell had premarital sex at least once. By early 2010, she was pregnant with their daughter, Zahara.

By that spring, Russell was living near Tsarnaev — who still resided with his family — in Cambridge, Mass. They married six months after they met, on June 21, 2010, on the third floor of a ramshackle mosque in Dorchester. There were no guests, just two witnesses, and the ceremony lasted 15 minutes. The imam who married the couple had never met them before and never saw them again.

Russell changed her name. Now she was Karima Tsarnaeva. She dropped out of school and moved into the cramped Tsarnaev family apartment. The whole family, including Tsarnaev’s younger brother, Dzhokhar, and two sisters lived there. His parents were on and off welfare, and the rent was subsidized by a Section 8 voucher.

The whole Tsarnaev family was loathed by the neighborhood. They were loud, obnoxious, entitled, the father dumping his waste into other people’s garbage cans and taking up parking spaces with the beat-up cars he tinkered with. Their landlord begged them to move out. Every month, they’d haggle over rent.

None of them, except Russell, had a job. “He wasn’t really willing to work,” a family friend of Russell told The Washington Post. “That, in my mind, made him an unsuitable husband. She worked like crazy for him.”

According to one of her attorneys, Russell put in 80-hour weeks as a home health-care aide. Still, she and Tsarnaev found themselves on food stamps, too.

“He was a douche bag,” her friend Jesse Coyle told People magazine. “Her friends didn’t like him. He made her get rid of her Facebook account, and she ­always had to text him and let him know what she was doing.”

It was unclear what her husband did all day while she was at work, but Russell knew not to ask. In his presence, she shrunk and went silent. “He’s a very strong personality,” a clerk at their grocer told The Washington Post. He added that Tsarnaev would boss her around, that only he would choose the food and pay for it, that she would make no eye contact and say nothing.

“Maybe she loved him a lot,” the grocer said. “But it seemed odd. She’s a woman living in America. This is America.”

Where Russell was on April 15, 2013 — the day of the Boston Marathon bombings — is still unknown. According to a report in The Associated Press, her lawyer, Amato DeLuca, said that the last time she saw her husband was early in the morning as she left their apartment for work on April 18.

It was the last day of Tsarnaev’s life. He and Dzhokhar had been identified by the FBI, then the media, as the bombers. They were now the targets of a nationwide manhunt.

They went on the run, killing a cop on the MIT campus and carjacking a Mercedes SUV before a Watertown officer spotted them a little after 1 a.m. A wild gunfight ensued, and while Tamerlan sustained gunshot wounds to his torso and extremities, he was killed when his brother, making his escape, ran over him with the SUV. Dzhokhar was later captured alive.

Russell has always claimed to be shocked and appalled by her husband’s actions, and to have had no knowledge whatsoever of what he was planning. She has also maintained that she never helped him try to escape, and when police reported that Tamerlan was also a suspect in a grisly triple murder in Waltham, Mass., that took place on Sept. 11, 2011, she claimed ignorance, too.

One source in the investigation told People that one theory has Russell as not so much a co-conspirator but an abused, unknowing enabler. “The big question is, what did she either wittingly or unwittingly do to help her husband?” the source asked.

Phone records show that Russell spoke to Tsarnaev on April 18, and another law-enforcement source told The Weekly Standard that after seeing the brothers identified on television, she called her husband.

“She notified him,” said the source, “and there certainly didn’t seem to be any notion of surprise — just a report that ‘you’re being watched.’ ”

Following her husband’s death, Russell fled to her parents’ home back in North Kingston, and the FBI descended on the tiny apartment in Cambridge. There they found bomb-making residue in the kitchen sink, in the bathtub, and on the kitchen table.

On Russell’s laptop, they found the first issue of the al Qaeda online magazine Inspire, which included an article titled “How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.”

Russell said nothing. Through her lawyer, though, she made it known that she would not be claiming her husband’s body. Her parents tacked a self-pitying note on their front door, pleading with the press for mercy.

“Our daughter lost her husband today, the father of her child,” it read. “Please respect our family’s privacy in this difficult time.”

When the FBI showed up at her parents’ home on April 21, 2013, Russell refused to speak with them, and when it was reported, on May 3, that no trace of her DNA was found on any of the explosive material, she made it clear she would not cooperate.

Authorities have yet to bring charges, but have made it clear that spousal privilege — which holds that one spouse cannot be compelled to testify against the other — no longer applies when one of them has died.

It remains unclear whether Russell will face a grand jury, or be called to testify. In the meantime, she has allowed family, friends and her lawyer to tell the world how she is reverting to the normal, all-American girl she once was. She was now going to movies, listening to rock ’n’ roll, wearing nail polish, eating at fast-food joints and drinking coffee at Starbucks — all the things forbidden in her life with Tamerlan.

She took back her maiden name and hired New York City-based lawyer Joshua Dratel, who has represented dozens of high-profile terrorists. (Dratel declined comment for this article.)

As recently as four months ­after the bombings, “we’re seeing glimpses of the old Katie again, and it’s wonderful,” a relative told People. But not everything has changed.

“She has made it clear to her entire family that she is a Muslim and will remain a Muslim. That’s non-negotiable.”

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Comments

  1. richard Sherman says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    She is a Muslim and supports the killing of infidels…a totally typical Muslim…just like the sociopath MUHAMMAD.

    • veggiedog says

      Apr 7, 2014 at 9:42 am

      Of course she knew they were making a bomb. Maybe she did not know where it would be used. She loved the Pro-Palestinian Bowie in college, maybe she loved his views as well. She if not an innocent and should be treated as an accomplice.

  2. Diane Harvey says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 5:18 pm

    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.”

    *****

    Good to see that growing numbers of Americans are recognizing that being Muslim is not normal.

    • voegelinian says

      Apr 6, 2014 at 5:59 pm

      — but that Muslims in the West can seem normal, and thus continue to fool naive gullible Westerners who persist in maintaining the TMOE meme (Tiny Minority of Extremsits) and its corollary MMADMPLTRU meme (Most Muslims Are Decent Moms and Pops Like The Rest of Us).

      • voegelinian says

        Apr 6, 2014 at 6:00 pm

        typo: “Extremists”

      • Salah says

        Apr 7, 2014 at 1:47 am

        Hi, voegelinian.
        We’ve been discussing (on other threads) the almost impossibility to differentiate between “moderate” and violent Muslims. Here’s a good example of what I consider a True Muslim, or Muslimah, for that matter.

        It doesn’t matter whether she “seems” normal or not. The fact that she is refusing to cooperate with the FBI, at least in my opinion, is more than enough for considering her a True Muslimah.

        • voegelinian says

          Apr 7, 2014 at 3:52 pm

          With an organization/ideology that — 1) believes in practicing deception to the utmost; and that 2) we have every good reason to suppose is plotting horrific attacks on us we may not be able to stop if we treat Muslims fairly — we must graduate beyond having any type of methodology by which to differentiate what we think are dangerous from what we think are harmless, and simply consider all Muslims to be equally suspect. We don’t have the luxury, the time, or the money — nor should we risk the lives of our men, women and children — trying to figure out which Muslims don’t have the green wire that will detonate.

          We can’t afford to play Muslim Roulette:

          http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2011/12/muslim-roulettehttpwwwbloggercomimgblan.html

        • Salah says

          Apr 8, 2014 at 1:24 am

          @voegelinian
          “We can’t afford to play Muslim Roulette”

          But we can afford getting rid of our suicidal PC. By doing so, we will be able to distinguish “moderates” from jihadists without being called “racist” or “islamophobe” etc.

          Besides, by putting ALL Muslims in the same basket we are behaving like…Muslims!!!

      • veggiedog says

        Apr 7, 2014 at 9:43 am

        Decent until the call of jihad comes to them. They are like a ticking bomb.

    • Ray Lanfear says

      Apr 6, 2014 at 9:48 pm

      You are very much correct. Read this and pass it along. thanks
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    • LISA BALLARD says

      Apr 8, 2014 at 2:30 am

      When did YOU convert???

  3. Henry says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 5:20 pm

    Victim or accomplice? Either way a fool to be sure.

  4. Angemon says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 5:21 pm

    “As recently as four months ­after the bombings, “we’re seeing glimpses of the old Katie again, and it’s wonderful,” a relative told People. But not everything has changed.

    “She has made it clear to her entire family that she is a Muslim and will remain a Muslim. That’s non-negotiable.””

    She leaves no doubt to where her allegiance is. She considers herself a muslim before she considers herself american. Good luck with getting the “old Katie” back. I suggest to have her shipped to a cult deprogramming camp and hope for the best.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 6, 2014 at 9:27 pm

      Yes.

      Cult deprogramming, heavy duty. I think that’s about the only thing that might work.

      That, or exorcism. They probably amount to about the same thing, in the end. M Scott Peck calls exorcism – of which he personally witnessed two – “psychotherapy by massive assault” (he said exorcism was to normal psychotherapy/ counselling as neurosurgery is to a tonsillectomy).

      If her fool parents are reading this – and who knows, they might – then my advice to them is this: get, and read, Mark Durie’s “The Third Choice” – it’s about dhimmitude, but it’s more broadly about mohammedan deception and Abuse and how it warps the minds of those drawn into its orbit – and *then* read “Liberty to the Captives”.

      And go back to church and pray, pray, pray like blazes; and get every convent within range to pray, too. Organise a novena. Pray for her repentance and deliverance. And above all else: pray for the poor little kid; there’s more hope for rescuing the kid than the mother.

      Frankly, I hope that Ms Russell ends up getting busted and going to jail for a good long time; since it’s looking more and more like she’s complicit.

      If she does, then the kid will be separated from her, and with any luck – please God!- it will be raised by its non-Muslim – Catholic – grandparents. which at least will give it a chance of escaping from the Death Cult.

    • citycat says

      Apr 6, 2014 at 11:15 pm

      Californian Sunshine for a week might be a good clearing session for her.

    • veggiedog says

      Apr 7, 2014 at 9:46 am

      And she will raise her daughter to avenge the father’s death. She has to be tried as well.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Apr 8, 2014 at 1:06 am

      Interesting observation in light of the fact Indonesiastan operates islamic re-education camps for those who leave the Jew hating, fascist, violent, totalitarian death cult called islam.

  5. Di from Australia says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 5:35 pm

    Guilty by association…
    He sounds an appalling man…but typical of a misogynist Muslim
    I hope she finally sees the light and in her heart leaves that
    evil so called ‘religion’…and brings her daughter up as a ‘normal’ free
    American, with the help of her family she can start a new life.
    (that’s if she doesn’t go to jail)

    • voegelinian says

      Apr 6, 2014 at 6:00 pm

      Naivete springs eternal…

      • Defcon 4 says

        Apr 8, 2014 at 1:09 am

        The retarded conclusion of many here seems to be that all muslimes need is to hear/read/see the truth about their death cult and they’ll abandon it wholeheartedly — as if they don’t believe in it at all.

  6. Wellington says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 6:18 pm

    Complicit or not, what can’t be doubted by any sensible, knowledgeable person is that she is wasting her life. Just look at the before and after photos of her above for visual confirmation of this. These two photos are symbolic of the huge chasm between what the West offers to women and what Islam does. I would call particular attention to the sparkling eyes and smile of the first photo and the dead eyes and absence of a smile in the second——telling as much as most anything can be telling. Damning too.

  7. Guest says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 6:27 pm

    I do feel sorry for this girl. Yes, she may be guilty and then must do time, but she also needs help out of this horrible brainwashing. The way they drag young people in and totally wipe out their real selves reminds me of Hitler Youth or serious drugs. ..

    • firestarter says

      May 8, 2014 at 5:18 am

      No, no help for her. the likelihood is that she did know what that savage husband of hers was planning. Ship her off to the Middle East!!

  8. Bezelel says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 7:45 pm

    The enablers behind the libtard enabler are the all the libtard progressive brainwashing enemedia and company.

  9. JamesonRocks says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 9:11 pm

    “…she is reverting to the normal, all-American girl she once was.”

    Well, isn’t that nice. Perhaps she can go to hubby’s homeland and comfort her mother-in-law.

  10. Victim says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 9:36 pm

    Still a muslim? I can’t believe it. There is no reason to symphatize with her. I guest she’d be proscuted for her compliance in this cruelty called jihad. The only tragedy is her adherance to a faith that promise her nothing[ as a woman] in islamic paradise. She’s everything to loose( no 72 husbands, wine etc) and nothing to gain when she meets mo and her terrorist husband.

  11. Ray Lanfear says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    America is sleeping. Click on my wordpress link to this article.

    http://wp.me/p2GpDB-cF

  12. John P. Kuchta, Jr. says

    Apr 7, 2014 at 6:49 am

    Why do I get the idea from the article that the FBI is keenly interested in solving this one (Russell) aspect of the bombing scheme and execution? If the FBI flubbed the TWO warnings from the Russians that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was likely a terrorist; and, after the Marathon bombing, if the FBI couldn’t be bothered to raid the Islamic Society of Boston, do you really believe that the FBI gives a damn?

    We won’t get this corruption rooted-out of our political system until we become energy-independent and can tell the Saudis to go pound sand.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Apr 8, 2014 at 1:11 am

      @John P. Kuchta, Jr.

      I think it’s far too late for that. Like any successful criminal enterprise, islam has diversified into other, legitimate businesses.

  13. Reality Check says

    Apr 7, 2014 at 7:12 am

    By donning the hijab, this incredibly idiotic cow made a complete mockery of all the freedoms women died to earn for the total morons like her. I guess getting to sleep with a Chechen dick was far more important to her than life with dignity and self-respect.

    • firestarter says

      May 8, 2014 at 5:26 am

      I have a serious problem with these white B@#ches who convert to Islam. This really irritates me being white myself. But I have noticed a growing trend among white young girls in converting to this pathetic ideology or cult. Nevertheless, I dont think any women of ANY color should EVER convert to Islam.

      The problem is most severe among Russian or Ukranian women especially, who travel to the Middle East under some illusion, and it is the end of the so-called paradise they were hoping for. I have seen it. I have been in North Africa, and it is sad. it is sad how these women become dependent on these bastards.

  14. Geordie says

    Apr 7, 2014 at 7:54 am

    The FBI should cross reference with the case file of White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite. Another crazy manipulative bint.

  15. GFWSR says

    Apr 7, 2014 at 11:15 am

    She should perhaps be tried as a co-conspirator?

  16. Nan says

    Apr 7, 2014 at 1:20 pm

    This former Catholic needs our prayers.

    • Geordie says

      Apr 7, 2014 at 2:22 pm

      Nan wrote: “This former Catholic needs our prayers.”

      Therein dwells the problem. Invoking favour with dubious supernatural entities is exactly what these crazy jihadi people are doing! Here we strive to bring the problem to an end, not add fuel to the fire. Please keep inappropriate comments to yourself.

    • Isabellathecrusader says

      Apr 7, 2014 at 9:04 pm

      Nan, you are absolutely correct. Katie needs our prayers. And while we are at it we should pray for Geordie too.

      Someone over on Pamela’s site said that he used to date Katie in high school, that she was a freak back then, into bondage and that she thought she looked ugly and hated her parents. Hmmm, he may be onto something here. If she hated her privileged upbringing and felt like she was ugly when clearly she was a very pretty girl back in school that may give some insight into why she “went Tsarnaev” and now won’t go back. By hooking up with Bomber Boy and getting pregnant she probably felt really stuck but also felt that the best way to get away from her parents was to marry this guy she thought she loved. No doubt he abused and consequently terrorized her, otherwise why would she have changed so drastically? But having a baby with him and no doubt him filling her in on how the whole Muslim things goes down, i.e., that if she leaves he keeps the kid, she went along to get along. He must have threatened her or beat her not-on-her-face to get his point across. Now she effectively has something to hold over her parents’ head, their grandchild and so they let her do what she wants so they have access to said grandkid. She stays a Muslim to keep her autonomy (ironic, isn’t it?) from her parents and yet paints her nails, watches movies, listens to rock n’ roll and all the other things that Tsarnaev probably used her money to do himself but didn’t allow her to do. Her parents probably pay for it too.

      This is a girl who used to look really sweet and went to Catholic school but was arrested for shoplifting when she was eighteen. Her parents have money so what was she stealing $67 worth of clothes for? Boredom? Rebellion? Eff you to her parents? There is more to this young chick than meets the eye.

      I agree with Nan, we need to pray for her and all the other brainwashed kids who dabble in Islam and get burned by it. But as an adult, she must now face the music and either come clean with the FBI or risk being interrogated and incarcerated. And BTW, what suspects do you know who get to decide whether they will or won’t cooperate with the FBI? Seriously?

      • Defcon 4 says

        Apr 8, 2014 at 1:13 am

        Would you pray for nazis? Would you pray for street gangs? Would you pray for Hitler?

        • Isabellathecrusader says

          Apr 8, 2014 at 9:43 am

          Absolutely. Pray for all of those you listed to stop what they are doing. Pray for them to see the light and turn away from the evil they do. And pray for them to find the Truth so that they will see the error of their ways, realize how they hurt mankind and help them to reinstate the Golden Rule which is so sadly lacking in all of these groups’ purpose and meaning. Will you join me in these prayers Defcon 4?

      • Geordie says

        Apr 8, 2014 at 7:19 am

        Isabella wrote: “Nan, you are absolutely correct. Katie needs our prayers. And while we are at it we should pray for Geordie too.”

        This is not the forum for this discussion but because you raised it in the interests of friendship …
        Please do not waste your time on my behalf. Praying, having prayers listened to and answered, is in my opinion indicative of a delusional state of mind that is best not encouraged. It’s just one small step away from believing in 72 virgins waiting for jihadi martyrs and self detonation. Hence inappropriate for this forum.

        Some deity or other granting wishes for the faithful is an aspect of religiousness that can be easily validated under laboratory conditions. Please contact the Great Randi with his million dollar reward for anyone who can demonstrate the existence of anything supernatural. I’m sure he will be very interested in your claims and re-open the challenge just for you!

        With that I wish you well. A much better phrase than praying to any of the thousands of deities that litter the history of our species.

        • Isabella says

          Apr 8, 2014 at 9:48 am

          Thank you Geordie for your well wishes. I appreciate them and right back atcha! ; ) But you see, now I will have to pray for you because you have touched my heart and I pray for everyone I care about. If you don’t believe in them then you won’t be threatened by my prayers but since I do believe in them and have seen them help other people they may do you some good.

          ‘Hope you are having a good day,
          Isabella

        • Geordie says

          Apr 8, 2014 at 11:07 am

          Isabella wrote: “‘Hope you are having a good day,
          Isabella”

          It’s looking better dear lady. Retirement is it’s own reward.

          As for the prayers, I see you are determined so go-for-it. Direct them at Odin as this old soldier enjoys the Norse Sagas much more than the Yahweh and Asherah mythology. You should read them, excellent stories.

          I wish you well.

        • veggiedog says

          Apr 8, 2014 at 11:16 am

          This should not be taken as an offense by anyone. Prayer will not save us from the Islamic threat, only action will. Pray all you want, but make sure you have other tools as well. Where was God when 6,000,000 Jews prayed? Where was God when Jews were slaves to Egypt? Where is God now where Christians are being murdered by Islamists. But do pray if it makes YOU feel better, it is not helping those being tortured, nor will it help this woman who now believes in het Muslim life.

      • firestarter says

        May 8, 2014 at 5:34 am

        If she was an accomplice in the bombings, then she should be charged and held responsible. But honestly, once these girls convert, it is difficult to return them to normality. She is damaged, mentally and emotionally

  17. Kepha says

    Apr 7, 2014 at 7:05 pm

    Weighing in on the side of Wellington and Dumbledore’s, I suspect that Tsarnaev’s daughter was either born in the USA or, if abroad, to a citizen mother who meets transmission requirements. Hence, by US law, she is a citizen pure and simple.

    This being said, I’ve never said that I’m against the death penalty being imposed on citizens for heinous enough crimes–but let’s not have the children suffer for the parents’ crimes. For all we know, this Tsarnaev girl may grow up without any inclination at all towards either her father’s crime or her mother’s complicity.

  18. Defcon 4 says

    Apr 8, 2014 at 1:02 am

    “Russell put in 80-hour weeks as a home health-care aide.” What idiot kuffar would hire a muslima as their home-health care anything?

  19. pongidae rex says

    Apr 8, 2014 at 8:26 am

    Islam is not so much a religion as a self propagating system of mind control. The best that has ever been devised. Like a virus, its sole purpose is to spread but not to evolve into anything higher. If an alien race of master psychologists came to earth with the idea to design an ideology that would exploit every weakness of the human animal to propagate itself across millenia, they would have invented Islam. It is wrong to call Islam a religion. Religion leads to spiritual awakening.

  20. Anonymous says

    Apr 8, 2014 at 10:07 am

    She refuses to cooperate with FBI, because she is a Muslim. Islam needs to be out of the free democratic world.

  21. veggiedog says

    Apr 8, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    Personally I would like to see all immigration from anyone from the Middle East to the US stopped immediately. I would also like to see deportation of any that may be suspected of possible terror acts (yes I know, this is not the American way). This nation will never deport those that have been here and whether radicalized now or maybe later makes little difference is we are unaware. So a deportation, as much as I would like to see it of Muslims that reside in this country is not going to happen. I worry about the things I see happening in Europe, the Muslim in Belgium that in his patient manner says, the Muslims in 20-30 years will out number all others and then Sharia Law will be in place, and that even if those in Belgium start to reproduce at the rate that Muslims do they will never catch up, get it, never catch up. So do we sit and wait for the eventual take over of our various cultures to become Sharia? Time to act is now but none will.

    • Firestarter says

      May 8, 2014 at 5:48 am

      Veggiedog, Totally agree with you. The US including ALL EUROPEAN countries should impose stricter and tighter controls. I do not believe for a second, that allowing large populations of Muslims will do anything to benefit these countries. In fact, Muslims are first to be offended at anything. they are the first to object and protest against anything “non-muslim” in their host countries. do they have that right? No they don’t. If Muslims cannot respect the laws and rules and Freedoms of their host country, they mist get out. In fact, the burqa for starters should be outlawed in many of these host countries. why should the West bend over to accommodate their beliefs? Christians and other minorities are so often persecuted in Muslim countries, and they are not allowed to be offended.
      Start closing borders!!

  22. RodSerling says

    Apr 8, 2014 at 2:33 pm

    Joel advocated the killing of a child. That’s obviously against the site rules; it is the sort of thing that leads to deletion or banning, and he has been dealt with accordingly.

    About Jihadwatch comment guidelines:

    Robert: “[…] I still believe the antidote to bad speech is more speech. I still believe that out of open discussion good can come, and it has, here, in the comments field, on many occasions.
    […] As I have explained many times here, comments are unmoderated. If you would like to donate to us a sum substantial enough to enable us to hire a fulltime moderator, it will be gratefully received. But until then, the policing can and will only be sporadic. Nevertheless, it is not nonexistent. Comments referring to “Muzzies,” advocating genocide, or making broad-brush characterizations about Muslims or anyone else will be deleted if seen (and if you care about our work in defense of human rights here, please bring them to my attention in an email and I will delete them). Comments that are breathtakingly off-topic, racist, made up of endless pasted-in articles from other sources, semi-literate or illiterate, or abusive or threatening are likewise unwelcome.
    If you are interested in defending the West and the ideas of the equality of rights and dignity of all, do not play into the hands of our enemies by giving them ammunition with which they can try to discredit us.”
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    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/04/watch-out-for-those-negative-facts.html#comment-525616

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    There is more on this topic, as Robert and Hugh have addressed this issue from time to time over the years.

  23. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 8, 2014 at 3:47 am

    General observation, a propos the Benes decrees.

    So far as I can see, after a quick trawl round the internet, the Benes decrees did not result in the removal of every single person of identifiable German ethnicity from Czechoslovakia. (Incidentally, the expulsions also targeted *Hungarians*).

    Three million people, in total, appear to have been removed: both German-speakers (or persons who identified themselves as ethnically German) and Hungarians.

    However, about a quarter-million persons of German ethnicity who were identified as *non-Nazis* or “anti-fascists”, as well as some considered crucial for industry, were permitted to remain. Today, 0.5 percent of the population of the Czech Republic is identified as ethnically German. (And although Hungarians were removed from Czechoslovakia, today ten percent of the population of Slovakia is identified as ethnically Hungarian).

    (One wonders what was done with persons of mixed ancestry, the children or grandchildren of marriages between persons of German ethnicity and persons of Czech or Slovak ethnicity; there must have been some of these. Presumably the matter would have been decided by their declared loyalty and actions in the period 1933-45).

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