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Boston bomber’s widow — victim or accomplice?
NY Post ^ | 4-6-14 | Maureen Callahan

Posted on 04/06/2014 6:28:32 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

She was known as Katie, a pretty, popular girl from a well-respected Rhode Island family. In high school, she excelled at music and art and worshipped David Bowie. As a freshman at Suffolk University, she majored in communications, and she and a gaggle of friends modeled themselves after the girls on “Sex and the City.”

She thought about joining the Peace Corps.

That was before 2010, when she met the man she’d drop out of school to marry, the man for whom she’d convert to Islam, the man who, three years later, would leave her with a baby daughter and the threat of jail time.

Today, at 25, Katie Russell is best known as the widow of the Boston bomber. As the first anniversary of the attack nears, she remains one of its biggest mysteries — how she was drawn into her husband’s world, and what she knew about his plans.

In November, Russell’s brother-in-law, Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, will stand trial. Russell has not been charged, nor is it clear whether she’ll be a witness. But authorities still wonder: Was she a willing accomplice? Or a witless victim?

Russell, the oldest of three girls, was raised on a tree-lined street in the comfortable suburb of North Kingston, RI, right off a bike path called Sage Trail. Her dad, Warren, is an emergency-room doctor, her mom, Judith, a nurse.

The girls were raised Catholic and went to public schools. Katie was most comfortable in jeans and T-shirts. “She was a great girl, and a good student, and normal,” a family friend told The Washington Post. “She was normal.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bostonbomber; rhodeisland; suffolkuniversity; widow
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To: afraidfortherepublic

it is outrageous to me that it is even a possibility that she may not be required to answer questions or testify regarding what she knows.


21 posted on 04/06/2014 8:12:36 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Nothing is as dangerous as a muslime convert.


22 posted on 04/06/2014 8:12:55 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: headstamp 2

The new Stockholm Syndrome? Given the large numbers of Muslims in Nordic countries, it’s very fitting.


23 posted on 04/06/2014 8:19:26 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
The most important and pertinent of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's relationships is with his Uncle Ruslan. Ruslan was married to the daughter of Graham Fuller. Fuller was the top CIA strategists who developed and implemented the plan to recruit Muslims to fight for Uncle Scam in Central Asia.

Nothing to see here, move along to the anti Putin demonstration across the street.

24 posted on 04/06/2014 8:49:46 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Navy Patriot

The degenerate LIB moozlum should be water-boarded at the least...water-boarded then deported at best.


25 posted on 04/06/2014 9:47:24 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Right off the bat - “she worshipped David Bowie”. Total lack of judgement, and poor catechesis in the Catholic faith &/or the Christian faith.

Looks to me as though she has a foundation made of sand which shifts with the slightest breeze.


26 posted on 04/06/2014 11:56:35 AM PDT by Gumdrop (Q)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

That can’t be true....I didn’t read it in the NYT’s

/ S

Very interesting post...


27 posted on 04/06/2014 12:08:48 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The bitch was an accomplice, said so from Day One.


28 posted on 04/06/2014 12:09:37 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
The plan is similar the current operation where Uncle Scam recruits, trains, arms, and funds Christian slaughtering Al Qaeda foreign mercenaries to attack and overthrow Syria.

That's why events such as 9/11 and the Marathon bombings are known as "blowback" in the trade.

29 posted on 04/06/2014 12:58:13 PM PDT by cynwoody
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