Here’s a good one: This has nothing to do with being too young, having too much money, or maybe losing your brain sense cuz you were drunk. This was planned, methodical, their fault murder!
During the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, two homemade pressure-cooker bombs detonated 12 seconds and 210 yards apart at 2:49 p.m., near the finish line of the race, killing three people and injuring several hundred others, including 16 who lost limbs.
Three days later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released images of two suspects, who were later identified as Kyrgyz-American brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. During the attempts to capture them, the brothers also killed an MIT policeman, kidnapped a man in his car, and had a shootout with the police in nearby Watertown, where two officers were severely injured – one of them dying a year later. Tamerlan was shot several times and his brother ran him over while escaping in a stolen car – Tamerlan died soon after.
An unprecedented manhunt for Dzhokhar ensued on April 19, with thousands of law enforcement officers searching a 20-block area of Watertown; residents of Watertown and surrounding communities were asked to stay indoors, and the transportation system and most businesses and public places closed. Around 6:00 p.m., a Watertown resident discovered Dzhokhar hiding in a boat in his backyard. He was shot and wounded by police before being taken into custody.
On April 8, 2015, Dzhokhar was convicted of 30 charges, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting in death. Two months later, he was sentenced to death.<3>
During the initial identification and capture of their sons, the parents (father, Anzor Tsarnaev, and mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev) of the two murderer brothers were speaking at a news conference in the Russian republic of Dagestan and the mother said she was sure her “kids were not involved in anything.”
She then continued, “America took my kids away from me. I thought, America is going to protect us, our kids, it’s going to be safe for any reason. But it happened, opposite.”
Mrs. Tsarnaeva said she believed they would have been better off in a village in Dagestan. “My kids would be with us and we would be fine,” she added.
Meanwhile, Anzor Tsarnaev said that he was leaving Russia for the U.S. in the next day or two but Zubeidat said she was still thinking it over.<4>
Of course, the mother never went to the U.S. to speak more about how innocent her sons were nor did she even care enough to come and bury the one who deservedly died. One of the reasons might have been because while she was spouting off so much about how she and her family were such good people, the media started to expose those lies. She may not have gone back to the U.S. because there was an outstanding arrest warrant for her!
And one of the sisters, Ailina, was another apple who didn’t fall far from the tree. According to a criminal complaint, she threatened a woman in a phone call that summer saying, “Leave my man alone. Stop looking for him. I know people that can put a bomb where you live.” That’s one way to keep a man.
Considering who was making the threats, prosecutors didn’t consider it a joke and charged her with aggravated harassment.
And remember: The one brother still alive (Dzhokhar) didn’t dispute he blew up the bombs and killed people. His defense team argued he was influenced and enlisted by his older, self-radicalized brother to commit acts of terror and therefore should not be found guilty.
But back at the beginning to start this story off, the Tsarnaevs got to America because they were fleeing a troubled region of Russia. They were treated as legal residents and granted asylum – a status that opened the door for taxpayer-funded welfare. The state of Massachusetts confirmed the Tsarnaevs received food stamps, public housing, and other aid, on and off, between 2002 and 2012. During this time, Tamerlan Tsarnaev began his conversion to radicalized Islam. Then, according to investigators, he began filling his younger brother with hatred toward the West.
Not much is known about the two Tsarnaeva daughters, Ailina and Bella. Along with charges of making a bomb threat, Ailina has a past record which includes misleading police in a counterfeiting case. She pleaded guilty but got no jail time. She was also charged with leaving the scene of an accident, but that charge was dismissed. Her older sister, Bella, was charged with marijuana possession and intent to distribute after a 2012 arrest but she entered a pretrial intervention program.
The leader of the pack, mother Zubeidat, had her own issues with the law. We know she fled back to Russia in 2012, where she remains a fugitive from the U.S. after living off the taxpayers of that country for ten years. Records show she was arrested in June 2012, for shoplifting $1,600 worth of women’s clothing from a Boston-area Lord & Taylor department store. She is wanted on felony charges of shoplifting and destruction of property. Funny how this big-mouthed, tough-acting woman didn’t have enough guts to show up for her own court dates to resolve the charges against her.
Russia raised concerns to U.S. authorities about her in 2011 at the same time they asked the United States about her son Tamerlan. U.S. authorities added the mother and son to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, database – a collection of more than a half-million names maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center, an intelligence official said.
FBI agents interviewed Zubeidat Tsarnaev as part of the investigation into her son, whose case was closed after several months. In Russia, she has maintained her innocence in the shoplifting case while also calling the charges against her sons “made up.” Though not elaborating on her beliefs, Ailina (remember: she is the sister, the daughter of Zubeidat) has said she believes, as her mother does, that her surviving brother Dzhokhar and her dead brother Tamerlan are innocent. By the way, Dzhokhar was 21 when he was found guilty of murder.<5> He sure got some good learnin’ from his mom before he turned into an adult killing machine!
CITED REFERENCES
3. Wikipedia contributors, “Boston Marathon bombing,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing (accessed April 4, 2019).
4. “Boston Marathon bombing suspects’ mom: ‘America took my kids away from me’”
Larry McShane. NY Daily News: April 26, 2013.
Link: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... -1.1327190 (accessed September 21, 2020).
5. “The Tsarnaev family’s run-ins with the law”
Drew Griffin. CNN Special Investigations Unit: April 2, 2015.
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/us/tsarn ... index.html (accessed December 6, 2018).
