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Home Front: WoT
Investigators sharpen focus on Katherine Russell Tsarnaev
2013-05-05
Too many news outlets are leaving off Mrs. Tsarnaev's proper last name these days. Can't imagine why...
Federal law enforcement officials are sharpening their focus on the widow of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing after finding al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine and other radical Islamist material on her computer, according to law enforcement officials.

The probe of the computer belonging to Katherine Russell Tsarnaev,
See what I mean? It's like WaPo is trying to help her distance herself from her late, not-lamented husband. Why is the MSM doing that?
24, widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is part of the effort by investigators to determine whether Russell-Tsarnaev knew anything about the April 15 bombing plot or helped her husband and his brother, Dzhokhar, hide from authorities, according to the officials.

Officials have concluded that fingerprints and female DNA found on fragments of the pressure-cooker bombs do not match Russell-Tsarnaev's, but they say they are continuing to investigate.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving suspect, has told investigators that he and his brother learned to build the bombs from an English-language Inspire magazine and that they were partly influenced by the online sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaeda propagandist who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.

According to officials, Dzho­khar Tsarnaev also told investigators that he and his brother built the bombs in Tamerlan Tsarnaev's apartment in Cambridge, Mass., where the elder brother lived with Russell and their daughter. Officials said that Russell-Tsarnaev called her husband when she saw his photograph on television -- following the FBI's release of the pictures of the suspects -- but did not notify authorities.
That's likely a crime right there and is a logical reason for her not to be cooperating with authorities, as noted here. She's lawyered up and clammed up.
One of the key questions for investigators is whether the radical Islamist materials on Russell-Tsarnaev's computer belonged to her or were downloaded by her husband or someone else.

Russell-Tsarnaev's attorney, Amato DeLuca, did not return phone calls seeking comment. DeLuca had previously said his client played no role in the plot and was shocked to learn of the involvement of her husband and brother-in-law.
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