Too Bad Kalam is Gone - He shared the same background and views as the Boston Bombers

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http://www.usmessageboard.com/gener...bels-chechen-resistance-leader-terrorist.html

Kalam was a Chechen Muslim. He had strong hatred for Russia and Israel and a moderate dislike for America. In reality he wasn't that bad of guy.

Too bad he is gone, he could have given an interesting perspective on Boston Bombers!

 

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Granny says, "Dat's right - is all Stalin's fault...

Chechnya region is cauldron of Islamic militancy
Friday, April 19, 2013, The Russian region of the Caucasus that was home to the two Boston Marathon bomb suspects is one of the more volatile regions of the world.

The Russian region of Chechnya, home to the brothers allegedly behind the Boston Marathon bombings, is known as a cauldron of Islamic militancy and terrorism. Chechnya is one of the more volatile regions in Russia’s North Caucasus, dating back to its 1991 attempt to declare independence as the Soviet Union dissolved. Militant Islamists were blamed for an assortment of high-profile bombings and hostage-takings in Russia — most notably the 2002 killings of 129 people inside a Moscow theater and the 2004 bloodbath that left more than 300 dead in a Beslan school.

Russian special forces remove hostages from a Moscow theater where Chechen guerrillas held about 700 captives in October 2002. A total of 34 Chechen rebels were killed and several others were captured after security forces stormed the theater.

In October 2010, three suicide bombers killed six and wounded 17 in an attack on Chechnya’s regional parliament. Chechen rebels have also laid claim to the November 2009 bombing of a high-speed train that killed 28, an August 2009 suicide truck bomb attack that killed 25 at a police station, and an August 2004 Moscow subway station bombing that killed 10. Virtually all the violence associated with the region has remained in North Caucasus — with the Boston Marathon attack the first report of alleged Chechen terrorism spreading to the West.

Islamic militants from Chechnya have relocated into neighboring areas in recent years, and were blamed for near-daily attacks against police and the government in the nearby Russian province of Dagestan. Officials in Russia have long maintained the Chechen insurgents were linked with Al Qaeda — the terrorist group behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

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Did Boston carnage have its roots in Stalin's ruthless displacement of Muslims from Chechnya decades ago?
Friday, April 19, 2013, Both suspected bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were born in what is now independent Kyrgyzstan in central Asia, then they moved to neighboring Dagestan, now the most radicalized Muslim region in Russia.

Did the carnage in Boston have its roots in Joseph Stalin's ruthless displacement of Muslims from Chechnya many decades ago in the depths of the Cold War? The Tsarnaev family were ethnic Chechens, but they had hardly, if ever, lived in their homeland, ravaged by two bloody wars since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Their forebears — indeed the entire Chechen population — were deported eastward by the Soviet dictator in 1944 and it seems both suspected bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were born in what is now independent Kyrgyzstan in central Asia.

Once the USSR collapsed, they moved back to the Caucasus, but not to their strife-torn ancestral homeland of Chechnya. Instead, in 2001 they went to neighboring Dagestan, briefly settling there before some of the family secured a move to the U.S. in less than a year. Others soon followed. We still await the full story of what happened in America, but by the time of the outrage in Boston, the suspect's father Anzor was back in Dagestan, now the most radicalized Muslim region in Russia, where even its stupendously wealthy soccer team Anzhi Makhachkala prefers to play its home games 1100 miles away in Moscow.

It appears that the uprooted Tsarnaev family, on the road for several generations, had nowhere they felt at home. The family are not known to the authorities in Chechnya, it was claimed yesterday. Nor were they involved in the two wars beginning in 1994 and 1999 that devastated this region. "They grew up in America, their views and convictions were formed there. The roots of evil must be sought in America," claimed Ramzan Kadyrov, the pro-Kremlin strongman leader of Chechnya. But plenty of Chechens did get radicalized, perhaps because of the scars of history, and it now seems these brothers were among them.

For example, fighters of Chechen origin worked with the Taliban and other Islamist groups, it is reported. Pakistani officials alleged Chechen militants were involved in clashes near Afghanistan in 2002 and 2004 between government troops and Al Qaeda. And recently there were claims that Chechen units were among the foreign volunteers fighting against Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Their homeland is now relatively peaceful, thanks to the iron fit of Vladimir Putin who masterminded the second war, aware that Russia could have begun to break apart if this militant Chechen region was allowed to break free. Unable to wage war at home due to Moscow's tough stance, some went abroad to fight their battles.

Read more: Did Boston carnage have its roots in Stalin's ruthless displacement of Muslims from Chechnya decades ago? - NY Daily News

 

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Granny says, "Dat's right - dem Mooslamics gonna muck ever'thin' up...

If Central Asia ‘Becomes Dominated by a Radical Version of Islam, It Will Change the Course of History’
April 30, 2013 – Rep. Dana Rohrbacher (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, said Friday that if central Asia “becomes dominated by a radical version of Islam, it will change the course of history.”

“This part of the world is critical to the future of the human race. If it becomes dominated by a radical version of Islam, it will change the course of history in an extremely negative way,” said Rohrbacher said at a hearing titled, “Islamic extremism in Chechnya: A Threat to the U.S. Homeland.” Rohrbacher said the State Department claimed to be too busy to send a representative to the hearing, “and that may well be part of the problem” because the region “has not gotten the attention that it deserves.”

Central Asia and the Caucuses “represent a huge chunk of the planet,” he said, “and if that area comes under the domination of radical Islam that makes it its job to attack the United States or to attack other countries – not just the United States, but other non-Muslim people – that will be a disaster for every person on this planet.” “That will usher us into an area that will be of violence and mayhem that will be hard to get out of, so we need to pay attention to the Caucuses, and we need to work with those people who will work with us to see that that does not happen,” Rohrbacher said. He said the U.S. has not paid attention “until it stung us as it did in Boston and as it did on 9/11.”

Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaeva are Chechens who received asylum in the U.S. Three people were killed and at least 100 injured when two bombs exploded near the marathon finish line on April 15th. “The origins of the terrorist attack in Boston have drawn attention to a region that has not received the study that it deserves,” Rohrbacher said. “The terrorist brothers had roots in Chechnya even though they grew up in America and had sought U.S. citizenship.” The suspects’ father lives in Dagastan, which is part of Chechnya. Dagastan “is now a hotbed of radical Islamic activity,” Rohrbacher said. Al Qaeda is making it a priority of recruiting Chechens, Rohrbacher said, “and they are thought to have been trained in Pakistan.”

He called the appearance of Chechen fighters outside the northern Caucuses “ominous.” “The original Chechnyan uprising against Russia was secular and nationalist. Within this context, there would be no motive for Chechnyan exiles to attack the United States, especially after we’d given them sanctuary,” he said. “In the worldview of some Chechnyans, there has been—obviously some Chechnyans have had their world view radicalized as was the case of the two Boston terrorists, who have turned from young people being raised here into a jihadist mentality of global war against infidels, which includes us,” the congressman added. “Muslims deserve freedom and progress, but the jihadist mindset hates freedom and will drown progress in a sea of blood. Even as a minority viewpoint, the radicals have done great damage throughout the Muslim societies from Pakistan to Afghanistan through the Caucuses. And they have attacked the United States as well as Russia,” he said.

He called for “greater cooperation with Russia and the governments of central Asia” to “properly understand and respond to this emerging threat.” “We must find ways to expand our long friendship with Muslims in order to build a better future. That future should be of peace and prosperity for all people especially the people of central Asia, because all of us deserve to live in such a positive world, and we want to find positive ways of moving forward for these people,” Rohrbacher added.

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Boston bombing suspect's lawyer is death-penalty foe
May 1, 2013 - Hallmark of Judy Clarke's career has been defending those accused of high-profile crimes.

Renowned anti-death penalty lawyer Judy Clarke has defended the likes of Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and Arizona mass shooter Jared Loughner — managing to get life sentences each time. Now the Asheville native is representing another of the country's highest profile criminal defendants, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

A judge Monday approved the appointment of Clarke to the defense team for 19-year-old Tsarnaev, who is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction during the April 15 marathon. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured when two bombs exploded near the finish line. Clarke, 60, first gained notoriety in 1995 as part of the team defending Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who drowned her two young sons. The National Law Journal named the staunch opponent of the death penalty as one of the top 50 women lawyers in the country in 1998 and one of the top women litigators in 2001.

Clarke rarely has spoken publicly about her work and couldn't be reached for comment about representation of Tsarnaev. But in a speech Friday at a legal conference in Los Angeles, she talked about how she had been "sucked into the black hole, the vortex" of death penalty cases 18 years ago when she represented Smith. "I got a dose of understanding human behavior, and I learned what the death penalty does to us," she said. "I don't think it's a secret that I oppose the death penalty."

Tommy Koontz, who was principal at Roberson High School here when Clarke graduated in 1970, said he was impressed with her intelligence and drive. "Judy was one of those individuals you knew was going to go far in life, and she has," Koontz said when Clarke was appointed in January 2011 to represent Loughner, who was convicted of shooting then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and killing six people outside an Tucson-area grocery store. "She was always interested in the rights of people. I'm very proud of her," Koontz said. "I remember her as a young lady who was interested in things being done right."

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Breaking: 3 more suspects in Boston Marathon bombings case taken into custody
1 May`13 - Federal authorities arrested three friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Wednesday, accusing them of trying to obstruct justice by hiding evidence in the case and lying about it.

Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both Kazakh nationals who attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth with Tsarnaev, were charged with "conspiracy to obstruct justice" for allegedly getting rid of a laptop computer and a backpack belonging to the suspected bomber. Their classmate, Robel Phillipos, a U.S. citizen from Cambridge, Mass., who reportedly knew Tsarnaev from high school, was charged with lying to federal officials during the bombing investigation.

Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev appeared in federal court Wednesday where they were ordered held without bail. They are scheduled to appear in court again on May 14. One of their attorneys, Robert Stahl, said the men plan to plead "not guilty" to the charges. Phillipos, arrested Wednesday, appeared in federal court separately. There, a judge ordered him held without bail because he's a "flight risk." He's scheduled to appear before a judge again on Monday.

Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square in New York

According to federal court documents, the three men, all 19, were close friends of Tsarnaev's, and at least one hung out with the suspected bomber after the April 15 attack. When the FBI released photos of the bombing suspects on April 18, Phillipos texted Kadyrbayev to say that one of the suspects looked like Tsarnaev. According to the filing, Kadyrbayev saw the photo and then texted Tsarnaev to tell him the same thing. "LOL," Tsarnaev replied, according to the filing. The suspected bomber told his friend to "come to my room and take whatever you want"—though Kadyrbayev told federal authorities he regarded that comment as a joke.

But Tazhayakov told investigators that upon seeing those texts, he believed he would never see Tsarnaev alive again. Later that night, Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, who shared an apartment off campus, met Phillipos at Tsarnaev's dorm room, where they spied a backpack containing fireworks that were "opened and emptied of powder" and other possible bomb-making components, according to court filings. Kadyrbayev allegedly told officials he knew at that moment that Tsarnaev was involved in the bombings, but instead of alerting police, he decided to remove the backpack and Tsarnaev's laptop from the dorm to help his friend "avoid trouble."

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What did she know - an' when did she know it...

What does suspect's widow know?
May 3, 2013 -- FBI, and America, have questions for suspected bomber's widow; Investigators want to know what she knew of her husband's activities; Her lawyer says she knew nothing of plans to bomb marathon; She spends her days in her parents' Rhode Island home

What does Katherine Russell know? We're not the only ones who want answers to that question. According to a number of federal officials, investigators have plenty of questions for the widow of slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev: What might she have known, if anything, about his activities in the days and months preceding the April 15 bombings? About his travel and associations? And then there's that phone call law enforcement sources say Russell placed to her husband after authorities released pictures identifying him as a suspect in the bombings. What was up with that?

If it sounds like there are more questions than answers, you're right. Investigators haven't said what, if anything they know about what Russell knew before and after the bombings, which left three people dead and more than 260 wounded. Four people have been charged in connection with the bombing, including Russell's brother-in-law, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is suspected of carrying out the attack along with his brother, Tamerlan, 26. The older brother died April 19 after a firefight with police, hours after authorities released images of the suspected bombers.

Three of Dzhokhar's friends were charged Wednesday, accused of helping cover his tracks after the bombing. Authorities allege two of the men disposed of potentially incriminating items from Dzhokhar's dorm room and a bag containing fireworks; the other allegedly made false statements to police. A laptop belonging to Dzhokhar is now in FBI custody, two federal law enforcement officials told CNN. A lawyer for one of the suspect's accused friends said his client turned it over.

Who is Katherine Russell?