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| Patrick administration refuses to release Tsarnaev brothers' records |
| 2013-04-26 |
| [BOSTONHERALD] The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's government benefits, citing the dead terror criminal mastermind's right to privacy. Across the board, state agencies flatly refused to provide information about the taxpayer-funded lifestyle for the 26-year-old man and his brother and accused accomplice Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. On EBT card status or spending, state welfare front man Alec Loftus would only say Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and 3-year-old daughter received benefits that ended in 2012. He declined further comment. On unemployment compensation, labor department front man Kevin Franck refused to say whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev ever collected, saying it was "confidential and not a matter of public record." On Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's college aid, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth front man Robert Connolly said, "It is our position -- and I believe the accepted position in higher education -- that student records including academic records and financial records (including financial aid) cannot under federal law be released without a student's consent." On cellphones, the Federal Communications Commission would not say whether either brother had a government-paid cellphone, also citing privacy laws. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 The key point with the "$100 bombs" is not the cost, but that they are made from easily available components. The cheapness is just a side effect. Nothing too surprising there. Clever people have been making bombs from common ingredients for a long time. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-04-26 22:16 |
| #10 tipper: that was totally insensitive and non-PC. I heartily endorse it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-04-26 21:23 |
| #9 Question: What was the last thing to go through Tamerlan's head? Answer |
| Posted by: tipper 2013-04-26 21:12 |
| #8 Ditto Barb, and now Christians In Action are blaming the FBI. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-04-26 17:15 |
| #7 "The brothers struggled financially" With a Merc and $900 shoes? Bullshit. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-04-26 14:02 |
| #6 Isn't this a great country, or what? Paying welfare recipients to build terrorist bombs. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-04-26 13:30 |
| #5 Identity of Boston bombing 'naked suspect' fuels conspiracy theories |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-04-26 13:29 |
| #4 Boston bombs built on a shoe string: A portrait of the brothers' shaky finances have emerged, but lack of money was little barrier to allegedly planning a large-scale terror attack, the Boston Globe reports. US officials said the Boston Marathon explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 260 were triggered by a remote-controlled detonator. Two officials said the bombs were not very sophisticated. One of the officials described the detonator as "close-controlled" - meaning it had to be triggered within several blocks of the bombs. The brothers struggled financially, but that would not necessarily have been a barrier to carrying out an attack using inexpensive, homemade bombs reports say. Older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in a shoot-out with police, was a stay-at-home dad whose family qualified for welfare, was supported by his wife's work as a home health aide, and drove a 15-year-old Honda, the Globe reports. He earned little as an amateur boxer, had worked as pizza delivery driver, and was assigned a public defender when he couldnÂ’t afford a lawyer in a 2009 domestic violence case against a girlfriend, the Boston Herald reports. Younger brother Dzhokhar, 19, was a scholarship student who allegedly earned extra cash selling marijuana to uni friends, the Globe reports. Their families also received public assistance while they were growing up. Dzhokhar will be assigned a public defender, after communicating to authorities that he cannot afford a lawyer. But their threadbare finances did not stop them allegedly carrying out the Boston Marathon attack - because the bombs used would have cost less than $100 to make, experts told the Globe. The explosives were built from inexpensive pressure cookers and nails, which the brothers allegedly constructed using online instructions. "There is no barrier here to two men doing this on their own," Rand Corp terrorism specialist Brian Michael Jenkins said of the low-cost explosives used in the Marathon attack. "You could easily do this for under $100 per bomb. This is an investment even someone with modest means can make." The homemade explosives are in stark contrast to the 9/11 attacks, which are estimated to have cost around $500,000 in flight lessons, living costs and airplane tickets. Dzhokhar, who is recovering from gunshot wounds in hospital, reportedly told authorities that he and his brother acted alone, rather than being funded by a wider terrorist group. TamerlanÂ’s young family qualified for state welfare until 2012, Massachusetts health and human services spokesman Alec Loftus said. And the brothersÂ’ parents were also on public assistance when the brothers were growing up, he said. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-04-26 13:26 |
| #3 The simple fact that they refuse to release the info pretty much tells you that they (the bombers) did receive the aid. Otherwise. why hide it? |
| Posted by: OCCD 2013-04-26 09:54 |
| #2 Privacy is only for members of the Inner Party and those/things they favor. Joe the Plumber's private records were out and about in days. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-04-26 09:10 |
| #1 See also WORLD NEWS > [Washington Times] DONALD TRUMP: IS HOSPITALIZED BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECT [Dzhokhar] "ELIGIBLE" FOR OBAMACARE? VERSUS * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > TEN DUMB THINGS BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING SUSPECTS' TAMERLAN + DZHOKHAR[One or Both] TSARNAEV DID AFTER THE ATTACK |NEWS.COM.AU. * SAME > BOSTON BOMBINGS: US FBI LOOKS INTO PAKISTANI TERROR GROUP. Tsarnaev Bros. link(s), iff any, to the Pak-based Islamic Jihad Union [IJU] FKA Islamic Jehad Group [IJG]. * WORLD NEWS > [NY Daily News] CABBIE ADMITS HE NEARLY DROBE OFF WID BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECTS' EXPLOSIVES IN HIS TRUNK ON EVE OF ATTACK, HE SAYS. It bothers his conscience, i.e. "What iff". * BHARAT RAKSHAK > BOSTON BOMBING: SUSPECTS' MOM SAYS YOUNGER SON WOULD HAVE OBEYED OLDER BROTHER. Again, she raised her Boyz to be good Muslims. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-26 00:27 |