Bombers Mother also on the terrorist watch list. WTF!

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Boston bombing suspects' mom in terror database


       

EILEEN SULLIVAN and JULIE PACE | April 26, 2013 01:19 PM EST |
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WASHINGTON — Two government officials tell The Associated Press that U.S. intelligence agencies added the Boston bombing suspects' mother to a federal terrorism database about 18 months before the attack.
 
Officials say this was done after Russia contacted the CIA late in 2011 with concerns that the now-dead suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM'-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE'-ehv), and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva (zoo-bay-DAHT' tsahr-NEYE'-eh-vuh), were religious militants about to travel to Russia. The CIA asked that Tsarnaev and Tsarnaeva be added to a classified intelligence database called TIDE. Being on the database does not automatically mean the U.S. suspects a person of terrorist activity and does not automatically subject a person to surveillance, security screening or travel restrictions.
 
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation.

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State: Marathon bomb suspects’ family received welfare, food stamps
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Posted on Friday, April 26, 2013 11:29:24 AM by outpostinmass2

The family of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bomb attacks, received food stamps and welfare when the brothers were growing up, according to a letter from the state Department of Transitional Assistance that was obtained by the Globe.

In the letter, sent Thursday to the chairman of the House Post Audit and Oversight Committee, the department outlined the benefits that the brothers had received through their parents, Anzor and Zubeidat, as well as benefits Tamerlan Tsarnaev later received as a member of his wife’s household.

Anzor and Zubeidat received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, commonly known as food stamps, from October 2002 to November 2004, when Dzhokhar would have been about 8 to 10 years old and Tamerlan 15 to 17. The family also received them from August 2009 to December 2011, according to the letter.

Anzor was also a Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children grantee from January 2003 to March 2003, and again from August 2009 to June 2010.

Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children is a state and federally funded program that provides cash assistance to families with children and pregnant women, according to the letter. The program is commonly known as welfare.

The Tsarnaev parents were eligible for benefits as legal non-citizen residents with asylum status who met the basic eligibility criteria, which include household income levels and dependent children, according to the letter. The Tsarnaev brothers were both in the country legally.

Tamerlan’s wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, also received food stamps and welfare benefits from September 2011 to November 2012, according to the letter.

Neither Tamerlan, who was 26 when he died last week, nor Dzhokhar, who is 19, ever directly received welfare or food stamps, according to the letter.


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Bomb suspects' mother a person of interest: US lawmakers
 



AFP 4/26/2013 5:27:28 PM
The mother of the two Boston bomb suspects is being treated as a "person of interest" by US authorities seeking to determine whether she radicalized one of her sons, US lawmakers said Friday.

Ethnic Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stand accused of launching the deadly attacks last week that killed three people and injured more than 260.

Their mother Zubeidat, in her native Dagestan region of Russia, has made impassioned critiques of US authorities since eldest son Tamerlan died in a shootout with police days after the bombings.

Particular interest has surrounded a six-month trip he made to the Northern Caucasus in 2012, and whether he made contact with the Islamist underground in the region.

"She (Zubeidat) is a person of interest that we're looking at to see if she helped radicalize her son, or had contacts with other people or other terrorist groups," congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters.

Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, also pointed to Zubeidat as someone who may have led Tamerlan down the path toward Islamic extremism.

"The mother in my judgment has a role in his radicalization process in terms of her influence over him (and) fundamental views of Islam," McCaul told reporters.

He said that on Thursday a "US team was deployed to interview individuals in the Chechen region, in Dagestan, and it's my hope that they can get some evidence from that."

Earlier this week in a television interview the mother suggested the Boston Marathon was staged.

"I saw very, very interesting video last night, that the marathon was something like a really big play," she told CNN in English.

"There is, like, paint instead of blood, like it is made up."

Speaking to reporters Thursday, Zubeidat reaffirmed her belief that her sons were innocent of the Boston bombings.

Her husband Anzor Tsarnaev said he planned to travel Friday to the United States, where younger son Dzhokhar is being held on terror charges.