Breaking Info on Boston Bombings! Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Naked Man

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absolutely nothing groundbreaking in that rambling diatribe. If he has something to show us he needs to document it. And get back on his ADD meds.

 

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Gang-rape of birdwatcher in the south Pacific...

US academic tied up and gang raped by nine men in PNG
Mon, Apr 22, 2013 - A US academic has been gang raped by an armed mob in Papua New Guinea (PNG), barely a week after an Australian was killed and his friend sexually assaulted by a group of men.

The incidents come after a brutal spate of sorcery-related crimes that have sparked condemnation from the UN and undermined the poor Pacific country’s standing as a destination for tourism and investment. In the latest case, the white academic said she was attacked on Friday while conducting research on birds and the impact of climate change in a remote forest on Karkar Island in Madang Province. Police in the capital, Port Moresby, yesterday confirmed the attack. “We have taken statements, but no arrests have been made yet,” a spokesman said. “This is a very serious incident.”

The 32-year-old was walking along a bush track with her husband and a guide when nine men armed with rifles and knives ambushed them, stripping the husband and guide naked and tying them up, she said. They then stripped her, bound her hands, cut off her blonde hair to the scalp and gang raped her for about 20 minutes before something in the forest startled them and they ran away. The guide managed to break free and the three of them fled naked back to the nearest village, several hours away, she said. The husband and wife returned to Port Moresby on Saturday, where they were met by a Agence France-Presse photographer who helped them file police reports and organize a flight out of the country. The case was also reported to the US embassy. A duty officer yesterday said the embassy had no comment on the case.

Violence against women is endemic in Papua New Guinea, but it is rare for a white woman to be targeted, and the academic said she wanted to tell her story to shine a light on the issue. “This story should not come out because I am white,” said the woman, who was on her fifth visit to the country since 2010, often staying for up to four months to conduct research. “It should come out in hopes that it empowers Papua New Guinean women to stand up and say no more violence against women in this country,” she said. “I hope my story can make a change.” The American’s ordeal comes barely a week after Australian Robert Purdy, 62, was shot dead at Mount Hagen, in the Western Highlands, and a woman he was with, reportedly from the Philippines, was gang-raped by 10 armed men.

Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill condemned that attack as the “cowardly act of animals.” “This kind of behavior totally undermines our efforts to make our country a safe destination for investment and tourists,” he said. “We cannot allow the entire nation to suffer because of the behavior of one or two sick people.” The incidents follow a series of gruesome murders, including a 20-year-old mother who was accused of witchcraft, stripped and burned alive in front of a crowd at a market near Mount Hagen in February. Earlier this month, an elderly woman was beheaded after being accused of sorcery.

US academic tied up and gang raped by nine men in PNG - Taipei Times

 

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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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Boston suspect died of gunshots, blunt trauma
Sun, May 05, 2013 - MARATHON BOMBINGS: Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s family found a funeral home willing to handle his body. US officials say the bombings were originally planned for July 4

A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said on Friday. Funeral home owner Peter Stefan has 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body and read details from his death certificate. The certificate cites Tsarnaev’s “gunshot wounds of torso and extremities” and lists the time of his death as 1:35am on April 19, four days after the deadly bombing, Stefan said. Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with authorities who had launched a massive manhunt for him and his brother, ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the US about a decade ago. Police have said he ran out of ammunition before his younger brother dragged his body under a vehicle while fleeing.

Tsarnaev’s family on Friday was making arrangements for his funeral as investigators searched the woods near a college attended by 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was captured less than a day after his brother’s death. The funeral parlor is familiar with Muslim services and said it would handle arrangements for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whose body was released by the state medical examiner on Thursday. The body initially was taken to another funeral home, where it was greeted by about 20 protesters. Stefan, owner of Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, said everybody deserves a dignified burial service regardless of the circumstances of their death and that he is prepared for protests. “My problem here is trying to find a gravesite. A lot of people don’t want to do it. They don’t want to be involved with this,” said Stefan, who added that dozens of protesters gathered outside his funeral home, upset with his decision to handle the funeral. “I keep bringing up the point of Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh or Ted Bundy. Somebody had to do those, too,” he said.

Meanwhile, two US officials said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators that he and his brother initially considered setting off their bombs on July 4, Independence Day in the US. As part of the bombing investigation, federal, state and local authorities were searching the woods near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a student. Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, could not say what investigators were looking for, but said residents should know there is no threat to public safety. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was found hiding in a tarp-covered boat in a suburban Boston backyard, faces a charge of using a weapon of mass destruction to kill. Three of his college classmates were arrested on Wednesday and accused of helping after the bombing to remove a laptop and backpack from his dormitory room before the FBI searched it.

The April 15 bombing, using pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails, ball bearings and metal shards, killed three people and injured more than 260 others near the marathon’s finish line. The brothers decided to carry out the attack before Independence Day when they finished assembling the bombs, the surviving suspect told interrogators after he was arrested, two US officials briefed on the investigation said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation. Investigators believe some of the explosives used in the attack were assembled in Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s home, though there may have been some assembly elsewhere, one of the officials said. It does not appear that the brothers ever had big, definitive plans, the official said.

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'Many Tsnarnaevs'...

Dagestan’s 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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