“They deleted her from a lot of the public records so that she couldn’t be tracked.”
I hadn’t thought about it in a while, but the Messenger went out and dug up this old story with an odd twist.
Katherine Russell pulled off a seeming vanishing act shortly after her husband, notorious Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police days after the bloody 2013 terror attack.
But she didn’t do it alone. The Messenger has spoken to multiple sources from various U.S. government agencies who say that the FBI helped Russell go off the grid.
The widow, now 34, fled the Boston area to New Jersey with her young daughter. She remarried, though she kept in close contact with her late husband’s family while cutting off almost everyone from her old life.
It might be understandable for the FBI to help her disappear if she were a witness or if she were at least hiding from the terrorists, but since she’s keeping in touch with the Tsarnaev clan, that’s clearly not the case. This is a really bad family.
According to a criminal complaint, Tsarnaeva threatened a woman in a phone call this summer, saying “Leave my man alone.”
“Stop looking for him. … I know people that can put a bomb where you live,” she said, according to the complaint.
Considering who was making the threats, prosecutors didn’t consider it a joke and charged Tsarnaeva with aggravated harassment, which she denies.
Even their mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, has had issues with the law. She fled back to Russia in 2012, where she remains a fugitive.
Did Katherine Russell know what her husband was going to do?
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.”
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.
There were investigations into her role that then faded away.
In April of this year, ABC News reiterated that the investigation into Russell is ongoing, and added that investigators suspected her as the woman who accompanied Tamerlan to purchase one of the pressure cookers—later used to build a bomb—from Macy’s. Her New York attorney, Dratel, denies this report.
Katherine Russell became more religious after Tamerlan returned home for a six-month stint in Dagestan in 2012, her friend said.
“She became more intense about Islam,” said Crawford. “All the conversations we had would always lead there.”
How do we go from there to the FBI erasing all of her records?
“When she moved away, we knew exactly where she went,” an FBI investigator who worked on the case tells The Messenger. “We had to be able to keep in touch with her, but she was somewhere that no one else could get to her.
“At that point, she was erased. They deleted her from a lot of the public records so that she couldn’t be tracked.”
In the years that followed, Russell has rarely been seen in public. But there is no trace of Russell in public databases.
According to a law enforcement officer in the Garden State, a search for Russell’s driver’s license in New Jersey comes up empty — whether it’s by name, birthdate or address.
It’s hard to believe that she would have known anything of significance and she showed little interest in aiding in the investigation.
Did she become an American again? That remains unclear at best. During the trial, she became infamous for wearing black Islamic garb. Did she rejoin the American way of life or has she decided to commit to the Jihadist cult that she joined?
Someone at the federal level apparently doesn’t want us to know.
But let’s consider her place of residence.
Katherine Russell’s parents are from Rhode Island. She didn’t move there to be with them. Instead, she moved to New Jersey which is a hub of the Jihadist settlements on American soil.
Who does she know who lives in Jersey?
After the bombing, Russell had nowhere to go. She and her then 2-year-old daughter, Zahara, moved in into her parents’ Rhode Island home. There, she lived with her father, Warren, and her mother, Judith. She began to spend time with her younger sisters, Anna and Rebecca. “They began to reconnect,” a relative tells PEOPLE. “For a while, everyone was happy.”
But there was one point of contention, and it was a major one. Katherine and her family had fundamentally different religious beliefs. (The Russell family is Christian.) “In the end, there were too many issues,” says the relative. “They just saw life differently. After a year, she decided to move out.”
Russell moved to New Jersey, where she moved in with Tamerlan’s sister Ailina.
When last we saw, she had remarried and was wearing even more dense Islamic headgear than before.
Alina Tsarnaeva confirmed that the baby Tsarnaev’s widow was photographed holding Saturday at Alina and Bella Tsarnaeva’s North Bergen, NJ, home was Russell’s.
“Yes, she got married [again] and had a baby,” Alina Tsarnaeva said.
The odds are good that she’s still in the enemy camp. So why are the Feds covering for her?
Consider it another legacy of the Obama administration. Justice still has not been done in one of the most vicious Islamic terrorist bombings on American soil.
somehistory says
I can’t recall the agent’s name, but he was ordered by bo to stop investigating mozlum terrorists…was getting married, but found on a road, shot dead in his car before the ceremony could take place. His death was ruled a suicide.
Now, we can all wonder if this mozlum woman is one of the cases he was ordered to close. And we can all wonder how many more like her are being helped to hide.
Can anyone say treason? Can anyone say fundamentally transform?
somehistory says
Trying to recall the name. Mr. Haney? He didn’t want to go quietly, didn’t want to allow the mozlum invasion with its terrorism culture to succeed. So he spoke of what he was ordered to do and by whom.
GE says
Yes. I think it was Phil Haney.
And I think the authorities passed it off as a suicide. Which personally, I don’t believe.
James Lincoln says
GE,
Any honest person looking at the evidence would conclude that Phil Haney was murdered.
somehistory says
Thanks, GE. I don’t believe it either. So many have died and their deaths ruled a suicide when some of us know good and well they didn’t do it.
somehistory says
James, if only more people in control of things were honest. There wouldn’t be such a dishonest, lying, evil mess.
Hoi Polloi says
I’m grateful that Mr. Greenfield is asking these questions. In BHO’s world from whence came so much of our current injustice system, she’s probably a hero.
SH: Yes, I believe you’re thinking of Philip Haney, who wrote See Something, Say Nothing, a great book. The initial finding of suicide was challenged because his family said he was anything but suicidal and initial reports didn’t fit evidence. It was, nonetheless, ruled suicide.
“Lloyd Billingsley: Reps. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) and Steve King (R-Iowa), both friends of the deceased, said Haney carried a thumb drive containing sensitive documents. “That thumb drive is curiously missing,” the Washington Times reported.
Haney, a UC Riverside alum, worked as a field agricultural entomologist in the Middle East, where he began studying Arabic and the Quran. Haney proved adept at tracking terrorist groups, but as he explained in The Hill on May 5, 2016, the Department of Homeland Security ordered him “to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS).”
In a 2016 interview with Frank Gaffney, Haney explained, “The mosque that [San Bernardino terrorist] Syed Farook attended was part of that Tablighi Jamaat network. The Obama administration deleted sixty-seven records out of the system that I had worked on as a component of the Tablighi case.”
somehistory says
Thank you, HP, for all of the extra information and the work in putting it down for all of us who care.
Jack Reynolds says
Netherlands: Muslim block streets for outdoor prayers in Amsterdam
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Are there no mosques in Amsterdam? There are plenty. So why block the streets? Doing so is a demonstration of presence and power. Dutch citizens see that Muslims are in the country in large numbers, and that authorities dare not anger them by asking them not to inconvenience everyone by holding prayers in the street.
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Nothing could make this clearer. This is an obvious and out-right attempt at INTIMIDATION, but it is not a wise one. Europeans are capable of making difficult decisions.
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In 1945 the British Air Force was asked by the Russians to shorten the War by bombing Dresden. They did and the fire storm that it produced killed 20,000 people. Most Historians have concluded that the number of lives saved, including Germans, was even greater. Keep that in mind when you are considering the current situation in GAZA.
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https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/01/netherlands-muslim-block-streets-for-outdoor-prayers-in-amsterdam
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That ‘Turn the other cheek’ saying must be understood in context. No one would continue to turn the other cheek forever. A better understanding of the phrase would be “Don’t sweat the small stuff, but when you’ve had enough KICK A$$”.
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Laurence Jarvik says
Interestingly Lee Harvey Oswald’s widow was also coddled by the US government, never charged despite being a Russian, daughter of a KGB colonel as I remember… it pays to be anti-American. Poor President Trump apparently made the mistake of being patriotic!
Muhammad Bhayat says
Good day
Katherine Russel was an FBI decoy used to orchestrate a false flag operation.
Have a nice day.
gravenimage says
The implication that Jihad terrorists are actually the FBI is quite false. But what else would one expect from this Taqiyya artist?
Muhammad Bhayat has also said that Christians have always had equal rights under Islam–astonishinglu,he says that Muslims have never harmed Armenians, despite the horrifying Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
He has claimed that “Islam means peace”–of course a lie, Islam means submission. And he said this on a thread about the horrifying October 7 Jihad terror attack on Israel he lauds Palestinians touchingly exuding “hospitality and warmth”–he doesn’t say how this squares with murdering babies and kidnapping women to use as sex slaves.
James Lincoln says
An excellent reply, gravenimage.
gravenimage says
Thank you, James.