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Before Boston bombing, Tsarnaev’s wife searched for “wife of mujahedeen”

Apr 28, 2015 9:52 pm By Robert Spencer

Complicit. katherine_russell_tsarnaev“‘Wife of Mujahedeen’: Jury Hears New Details About Boston Bomber’s Wife,” by Michele McPhee, ABC News, April 28, 2015:

In the months before the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife, Katherine Russell, searched the Internet for “wife of mujahedeen” and “what are the rewards for wives of mujahedeen,” according to testimony in the bomber trial Tuesday.

After the April 2013 attacks, Russell, who now uses her married name Karima Tsarnaeva, exchanged texts with her best friend about the carnage at the finish line and wrote, “Although a lot more people are killed every day in Syria and other places. Innocent people.”

“I thought it was strange she was bringing that up in this situation,” the friend, Gina Crawford, told the court Monday. Crawford said she had been interviewed by the FBI twice in 2013.

Katherine Russell has not been charged in connection with the April 15, 2013 bombings that killed three, left another 17 amputees, and wounded more than 240 others. Law enforcement officials told ABC News they are continuing to investigate what role, if any, she played in the conspiracy.

Russell’s name has been brought up several times during the penalty phase of the trial by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team as they try to save him from the death penalty by painting his older brother Tamerlan as the architect of the attacks.Tamerlan, 26, was killed in the early hours of April 19, 2013 when he was shot in a wild firefight with police and then hit and dragged by his brother as Dzhokhar fled in a stolen SUV from the scene in the Boston suburb of Watertown. Tamerlan’s death capped a two-day crime spree that started with the murder of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, the carjacking of a Cambridge businessman, and the bomb and bullet battle in Watertown. Dzhokhar was discovered hours later hiding and wounded in a dry-docket boat.

“The man who conceived, planned, and led this crime is beyond our power to punish,” defense attorney David Bruck told the court in his opening statement Monday, referring to Tamerlan. “Only the 19-year-old brother [Dzhokhar] who helped is left.”

PHOTO: A runner is on the ground as police officers draw their guns after the second explosion near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon, April 15, 2013.
John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
PHOTO: A runner is on the ground as police officers draw their guns after the second explosion near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon, April 15, 2013.

Katherine Russell’s mother Judith, a nurse, also took the stand for the defense Monday and said that her daughter met Tamerlan at a nightclub while she was a student at Suffolk University. Katherine brought Tamerlan home to meet her mother in a meeting that left Judith Russell unimpressed, she testified.

“He didn’t really seem interested in getting to know us, so it didn’t start off on a really good feeling,” Judith Russell told the court. “We weren’t real happy with her choice in the relationship.”

After Tamerlan traveled to Russia in 2012 the couple’s interest in Islam intensified, she said. With Tamerlan, she said, it bordered on “obsession.”

“She was covering and he started to grow his body hair,” Judith Russell said. “There was progression of his belief system and passion.”

After Tamerlan was killed, Judith woke up to her other daughter crying. Judith asked Russell’s sister, “I wanted to know what was going on, and she said, ‘Katie thinks that Tamerlan’s dead.’”…

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Filed Under: Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Boston Marathon, Karima Tsarnaeva, Katherine Russell Tsarnaeva, Tamerlan Tsarnaev


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  1. PGuud says

    Apr 28, 2015 at 10:05 pm

    That POS’s family–the non-Muslim side–should consider themselves fortunate that we aren’t related. That’s as kindly as I can put it. She is the epitome of Islam–devoid of humanity.

    Whatever happened to families taking care of their own? watching out for themselves?

    Degenerate POS. If she had any sense, she would do what’s right and put herself down.

    Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.

    • Justin says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 12:20 pm

      Two enemies are united within her!

  2. Joseph says

    Apr 28, 2015 at 10:24 pm

    Katherine Russell has not been charged in connection with the April 15, 2013 bombings

    In the months before the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife, Katherine Russell, searched the Internet for “wife of mujahedeen” and “what are the rewards for wives of mujahedeen,” according to testimony in the bomber trial Tuesday.

    That rag head CUNT knew what was going to happen. She is a co-conspirator!!! How can she not be charged. Both of those POS should be fried till they are EXTRA CRISPY……..with mustard sauce please.

    • Joseph says

      Apr 28, 2015 at 10:32 pm

      C U N T……Can’t Understand Normal Thinking

  3. Tom Cherian Mullammootil says

    Apr 28, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    I always believed she is GUILTY. It is a shame that FBI is not prosecuting her.

    • Shane says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 10:15 am

      I agree. I just don’t understand how she is now being prosecuted for being part of the Boston bombing conspiracy. She knew her husband and his brother were making bombs!

  4. Champ says

    Apr 28, 2015 at 10:53 pm

    “She was covering and he started to grow his body hair,” Judith Russell said. “There was progression of his belief system and passion.”

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

    Both becoming more *devout* muslims, I see …

    • Spot On says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 6:21 am

      Champ, Being a devout Muslim must be something like being “possessed”.

  5. mortimer says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 1:34 am

    Islamic Stockholm syndrome. She turned on her family, on her country and on Americans and adopted a new terrorist identity.

  6. Angemon says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 4:12 am

    In the months before the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife, Katherine Russell, searched the Internet for “wife of mujahedeen” and “what are the rewards for wives of mujahedeen,” according to testimony in the bomber trial Tuesday.

    Let me guess: the defense will claim that everyone in the Tsaernev family was in volved on the bombing expect for the member who is standing trial.

    After the April 2013 attacks, Russell, who now uses her married name Karima Tsarnaeva, exchanged texts with her best friend about the carnage at the finish line and wrote, “Although a lot more people are killed every day in Syria and other places. Innocent people.”

    This is an important point – the notion that the people killed/maimed in the Boston bombing were not, according to islamic definition, innocent. They are non-muslims living in a non-muslim land and paying taxes to a non-muslim government who has troops on muslim countries. That makes them valid targets.

    Katherine Russell has not been charged in connection with the April 15, 2013 bombings that killed three, left another 17 amputees, and wounded more than 240 others. Law enforcement officials told ABC News they are continuing to investigate what role, if any, she played in the conspiracy.

    Oh, she’s an accomplice all right. At best, she knew of it and she kept silent because she approved of it.

    Russell’s name has been brought up several times during the penalty phase of the trial by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team as they try to save him from the death penalty by painting his older brother Tamerlan as the architect of the attacks.

    Shouldn’t make any difference. He carried them out, didn’t he?

    “He didn’t really seem interested in getting to know us, so it didn’t start off on a really good feeling,” Judith Russell told the court.

    Of course he wasn’t. Non-muslims living in a non-muslim country and paying taxes to a non-muslim government who has troops in muslim countries. They might as well have had a pet pig named muhammad.

    After Tamerlan traveled to Russia in 2012 the couple’s interest in Islam intensified, she said. With Tamerlan, she said, it bordered on “obsession.”

    “She was covering and he started to grow his body hair,” Judith Russell said. “There was progression of his belief system and passion.”

    And why didn’t that trigger any red lights? Oh, yeah, because there’s a lot of effort going on to obfuscate the connection between islam and terrorism.

    • Angemon says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 4:14 am

      Ugh, stupid virtual keyboard and auto corrector. Where it reads

      “Let me guess: the defense will claim that everyone in the Tsaernev family was in volved on the bombing expect for the member who is standing trial.”

      it should read:

      Let me guess: the defense will claim that everyone in the Tsaernev family was involved on the bombing except for the member who is standing trial.

  7. duh_swami says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 5:03 am

    “wife of mujahedeen” and “what are the rewards for wives of mujahedeen…

    I’m sure Allah is waiting patiently for her arrival, so he can lavishly reward her…The sooner she gets on the bus to paradise, the better…’So long it’s been lousy to know ye’…

  8. nolongerdhimmi says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 5:44 am

    She is clearly a sympathizer to terrorism. She should be brought to the srand

  9. Know Thy Enemy says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 6:07 am

    Ali Sina once wrote an article on exactly this topic. Anyone interested can read it at the following link –

    What is in it for Muslim women?

  10. Joe Shmo says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 9:29 am

    This is another reason why knowledge of Islam is so important, so the stages of radicalisation can be recognised. I also think I’d prefer the term “call to Jihad” over radicalisation. People will have to know that when a Muslim becomes more devout, Jihad is probably just around the corner. And I hope in the future this whole process is better understood; how a person can reject any previous morality to justify atrocities against non-Muslims. I suppose it’s part of being a true believer and then following a religion that loves the killing of innocents. A cult breaker would presumbably have the tools and experience with this. Or we could just watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

  11. Ricky Black says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 10:41 am

    I can’t believe she is not in jail. They must be waiting for her to slip up and then bust her.

    • Loves God says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 11:55 am

      My guess is they had several reasons for waiting.

      1) Her BIL was higher priority. By going through the evidence for him, they are sifting things to make the case for her.
      2) They get one real try to charge her so they want to get it right and not lose because a juror felt sorry for her (she lost her husband, she’s now a single mom, yada) or charges are dropped on a technicality.
      3) She’s locked in (in terms of what she told them when they first talked with her) with her statement way back when.
      4) Waiting is a powerful tool, as in, letting her know that they know but are “choosing” to wait to charge her. She then knows what is coming down on her but not when. LIke the song says, “The waiting, is the hardest part.”.

      Some time ago, I read that she was living with her sister-in-laws in New Jersey. At any rate, her future life (work) is limited by her choices (especially if she retains her married name). If she goes to jail, who raises the baby?

      • Ragnar Danneskjold says

        Apr 29, 2015 at 5:07 pm

        The FBI are known for their complete thoroughness in gathering their evidence and being fully prepared with it before bringing charges in a case. Hopefully that is what’s delaying the process against this dirt legged skanky piece of garbage.

  12. eib says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 11:41 am

    She is utterly dehumanized by her hatred of the humanity of the non muslim other. Frigid bitch.

  13. Linda Rivera says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    The wicked witch lives free. She was certainly part of the terrorist slaughter of innocents.

    As long as the witch lives free, she is a danger to non-Muslims.

  14. Ashley says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    I will never understand why Katherine hasn’t been charged as a co-conspirator.

    She is a terrorist.

  15. abad says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    Fry her. She should be treated the same way as Zohak is. Period.

  16. karen says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    Perhaps some of the injured, and relatives of the murdered will consider civil suits against Mrs. Katherine Russell Tsarnaev.

  17. Loves God says

    Apr 30, 2015 at 11:39 am

    I was watching Nova’s Manhunt Boston Bomber episode. When they were talking about how they determined it was pressure cooker bombs. Then I remembered something about the buying of the pressure cookers (multiple at the same time) but cannot remember who all was present for it. I do also remember that at the time, the apartment she was living in was quite, quite small but a lot of people were all living there. So … where were the pressure cooker bombs (at least 3 were used – 2 at the marathon and 1 at the shoot out where Tam was killed) kept? There were also multiple pipe bombs thrown at the cops when the last pressure cooker bomb was used. How large a space would this take up and Where would you put all this to keep your own 2 year old from grabbing, touching and playing with them? And, in a small apartment without anyone knowing what it was?

    • RG says

      Apr 30, 2015 at 12:34 pm

      Excellent point! The woman is guilty as sin! No way she was uninformed!!!! Since when do muslumms hide their evil intentions from each other? No way!!! They all celebrate when blood is shed, it’s their highest achievement in life!!!

  18. RG says

    Apr 30, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    Her defiant attitude shows! How can anybody believe she was not totally compliant? That makes her an accessory to the crime, which is punishable at the very least, on manslaughter charges! In reality, she should be facing first or second degree murder! Anything less is a complete mockery to the innocent victims and their families!

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