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Posted on 05/01/2013 5:27:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Three new suspects have been charged in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing, two for conspiring to get rid of their friend's incriminating backpack filled with gutted fireworks after learning he was a suspect in the April 15 terror attack, and another for lying to investigators, according to an FBI affidavit released Wednesday.
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakova both 19-year-old natives of Kazakhstan and friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at UMass-Dartmouth, allegedly went to Tsarnaev's dorm and took a laptop, the backpack and some Vaseline that may have been used in making the deadly pressure cooker bombs that killed three and injured more than 200 at the race. Police believe the bombs were packed with shrapnel and gunpowder removed from fireworks.
Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Mass., also 19, was charged with willfully making materially false statements to federal law enforcement officials during a terrorism investigation.
The affidavit filed in support of a complaint said Kadyrbayev was the one who carried out the disposal of the backpack after the three saw the fireworks that had been hollowed out and emptied of gunpowder.....
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Another option for these kids might have been to NOT go bombing the United States. Their lives would be much more peaceful now if they had chosen that path.
Ah yes, the epitome of moderate muslims.
Perhaps that "Person of Interest" we've all heard about.
How is that Jihad?
“How is that Jihad?”
Pretty obvious that they knew what was going on...and what was going on fits my definition of Jihad.
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakova and Robel Phillipos should be getting new prison names soon.
Daisy, Anne, and Robin sounds about right.
Why shouldn’t they get read their Miranda rights? They are now defendants in a criminal case. Reading the complaint, there is no indication that they knew of the bombing in advance (and, in fact, the complaint suggests they did not).
Boston Bombing Ping!
BUMP
How much were the dirty trio collecting in welfre benefits?
“Why shouldn’t they get read their Miranda rights?”
2 of the 3 aren’t citizens...I’m not sure about the third...They can be questioned and there should be a preliminary investigation into the extent of their participation in an act of terror.
A dias, robel and an azamat, all-American, I’m sure.
The two Kazkahs overstayed their student visas. Not sure about the other nut, but we’ll have to see about how they funded their “educations”.
Not disagreeing with you, but if they had no prior knowledge...why/how would they know to scoop up something so otherwise enochuos as a jar of Vaseline among other things?
We’re told the Vaseline had a very functional propose in bombing making. I’m not buying they didn’t know something was coming, no way.
The brothers still had bombs, killed one officer and severely wounded another one. These three were aiding and abetting. If it weren’t for them the MIT officer would probably still be alive. It was more than a coincidence that they knew exactly what to dispose of.
Here’s a good take on the three’s actions when they recognized Bomber #2.....
The Story:
...Dias Kadyrbayev was driving back to his apartment when he got a call from a college buddy. A clearly anxious Robel Phillipos told him authorities had released photos of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers and one of them looked very familiar.
When he got home, Kadrybayev turned on the television to see Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his friend, classmate and, by then, one of the most wanted men in the world...That call set in motion a series of events...
According to an FBI affidavit based on interviews with all three men,
... this is how it played out.
....Kadyrbayev first met Tsarnaev in 2011, when they both started at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, south of Boston, near the base of Cape Cod. He told authorities he became “better friends” with the ethnic Chechen in spring 2012, and that he was a frequent visitor to the rundown Tsarnaev home in Cambridge.
Kadyrbayev and fellow Kazakh, Azamat Tazhayakov, hung out together on and off campus with Tsarnaev. The three 19-year-olds often spoke Russian among themselves.
Kadyrbayev, an engineering major, was headed back to the New Bedford apartment that he and Tazhayakov shared when Phillipos called. It was April 18, three days since the twin bombings that killed three and wounded more than 260.
When he saw the images of Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, Kadyrbayev texted his friend and told him that he looked a lot like the guy on the television.
“lol” Dzhokhar replied, according to the FBI affidavit. Then Tsarnaev’s messages took on a more ominous tone.
“you better not text me,” read one.
“come to my room and take whatever you want,” read another.
A month earlier, during a meal, Dzhokhar had apparently felt the need to tell his Russian-speaking chums that he’d learned how to make a bomb. Even so, Kadyrbayev told authorities he thought his friend’s texts were a joke.
The Kazhaks and Phillipos, who’d attended the prestigious Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School with “Jahar,” as Dzhokhar was known, agreed to meet at Pine Dale Hall, their friend’s dorm. Phillipos, the 19-year-old son of a single mother, said he wanted to see for himself whether the TV reports were true.
Tsarnaev’s roommate let them in, saying they’d missed him by a couple of hours.
According to Kadyrbayev, the trio decided to watch a movie (he didn’t specify which one). At some point, they noticed a backpack.
Inside, they discovered more than a half-dozen fireworks, each about 8 inches long, according to the affidavit. The black powder had been scooped out.
Kadyrbayev said he knew instantly that his friend was indeed involved in the bombings. But instead of calling authorities, he told investigators he began thinking of ways to get rid of the evidence.
Just in case the roommate thought he was “stealing or behaving suspiciously” by grabbing the backpack alone, Kadyrbayev decided to take Tsarnaev’s laptop as well.
The three returned to the Kazhaks’ apartment and watched news reports of the intensifying manhunt. They discussed what to do with Tsarnaev’s things.
As the situation’s gravity began to sink in, Phillipos _ whose own text to Tsarnaev went unanswered _ said everyone “started to freak out,” according to authorities. The other two men began speaking to each other in Russian.
Around 11 p.m., according to Phillipos, Kadrybayev broached the topic of ditching the stuff. Phillipos says he replied, “Do what you have to do,” then managed to drift off to sleep.
When he awoke from his two-hour nap, the backpack and computer were gone.
By then, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev was dead, cut down in a hail of police gunfire, then run over by his fleeing brother. Later that night, the three friends’ college buddy, bleeding from several gunshot wounds, surrendered from his hiding place under a tarp covering a boat in the backyard of a home in Watertown.
On April 26, authorities found the backpack in a New Bedford landfill. According to the affidavit, it contained the emptied fireworks, a jar of Vaseline and a UMass-Dartmouth homework assignment sheet from a class in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently enrolled.
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