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FBI Identifies Man Behind Tsarnaev Radicalization
2013-04-29
From Breitbart. This will require diligent confirmation and digging, of course, but it should surprise no one. Tamerlan didn't become a boomer boy all by himself; he had help and perhaps had more than one helper. Misha is the first identified but I'm betting he isn't the last.
A man known as “Misha,” who is suspected of being the person who radicalized Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, has apparently been identified by the FBI. Misha, a red-bearded, 30ish Armenian-American Christian who had converted to Islam, apparently became the Rasputin-like figure who spent hours indoctrinating Tsarnaev, once even visiting the family home.

Tsarnaev’s uncle, Ruslan Tsami said: “It started in 2009. And it started right there, in Cambridge. This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely.” After being swayed by Misha, Tsarnaev stopped his plans to attend music school saying Islam frowned on music, and gave up boxing. He began frequenting jihadist websites and looking for extremist propaganda, and reading al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine. He sought out a copy of the infamous anti-semitic hoax “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” which claims that Jews want to take over the world.

Elmirza Khozhugov, 26, the ex-husband of Tamerlan's sister, Ailina, said the Tsarnaevs were not at the mosque frequently until 2008 or 2009, when Tamerlan Tsarnaev met Misha. Khozhugov recalled the visit Misha made to the family home, where he stayed for hours:
Misha was telling him what is Islam, what is good in Islam, what is bad in Islam. This is the best religion and that's it. Mohammed said this and Mohammed said that. It was late, like midnight. His father comes in and says, 'Why is Misha here so late and still in our house?” He asked it politely. Tamerlan was so much into the conversation he didn't listen.

Khozhugov said Tamerlan's mother, Zubeidat, said:
“Don't interrupt them. They're talking about religion and good things. Misha is teaching him to be good and nice.” When Misha would start talking, Tamerlan would stop talking and listen. It upset his father because Tamerlan wouldn't listen to him as much. He would listen to this guy from the mosque who was preaching to him.

Khozhugov added that Tamerlan did not know much about Islam, and wht he did know he got from sources online or from Misha: 'Misha was important, Tamerlan was searching for something. He was searching for something out there.”

But Tsarnaev’s mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, denied Misha was a factor, saying, “Nonsense. He was just a friend.”

She continued that Misha was well-versed in Islam but wasnÂ’t extreme. She stated that MishaÂ’s contact with the Tsarnaevs was brief and he had moved elsewhere in the U.S. but she wouldnÂ’t say where.
Why on earth would we listen to Mom here? Anything, anything she says is suspect. If she isn't crazed then she's trying to spin and throw us off the trail.
Posted by:Steve White

#21  "IÂ’ve been cooperating entirely with the FBI. I gave them my computer and my phone and everything I wanted to show I havenÂ’t done anything. And they said they are about to return them to me. And the agents who talked told me they are about to close my case." - "Misha"

Doesn't sound very "Rasputin" like to me. More like BS from the family that fits with the Media's narrative: "They were such good boys until *Misha* make them into extremists."
Posted by: Secret Master   2013-04-29 14:31  

#20  The FBI had most of its training and interrogation curriculums severely modified by a consortium of 'muslim consultants'.

Are the people who work for the FBI and other agencies incapable of independent thought or analysis? Do they only process the officially dispensed data? I ask this in all seriousness.

Because if that is the case, we're in serious trouble. Even worse than I had assumed.
Posted by: Grese Flusing8260   2013-04-29 13:41  

#19  Fear not, the New York Review of Books has tracked him down.
Posted by: KBK   2013-04-29 13:06  

#18  More likely the FBI and CIA were just too blinkered by political correctness to understand what they were looking at

The FBI had most of its training and interrogation curriculums severely modified by a consortium of 'muslim consultants'. As for the CIA, well, it's gone from as Forsyth termed it, "savagely unprincipled", to merely amoral.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-04-29 12:44  

#17  Yikes! Could DEBKA be right on this one? It sounds so... plausible, given the information available.
Posted by: Secret Master   2013-04-29 11:34  

#16  Fred, just remember the one about the blonde that kept going to conspiracy sites because the label said "Lather, Rense, Repeat!"
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-04-29 09:54  

#15  Fred :-(

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Marcellus, scene iv
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-29 09:43  

#14  Almost, anyway.
Posted by: Fred   2013-04-29 09:35  

#13  Hell, I'm starting to believe in Rense.
Posted by: Fred   2013-04-29 09:35  

#12  Call me a black helo freak, but I keep going back to the DEBKAfile article. The more connections are revealed, the more plausible DEBKA becomes.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-29 09:16  

#11  
makes me wonder if there's some fire behind the smoke that the Tsarnaevs were being protected or at least not restricted before the bombings, when one would have expected such. Perhaps they were being recruited as agents?


More likely the FBI and CIA were just too blinkered by political correctness to understand what they were looking at. The Russians sent word the boys were "getting really religious" and the Feds response is, "well, that's not the same as 'radicalized'".

Posted by: Rob Crawford   2013-04-29 09:12  

#10  
FBI Identifies Man Behind Tsarnaev Radicalization


Name's "Mohammed".
Posted by: Enver Spusoque4637   2013-04-29 09:10  

#9  Thank you, tipper. That isn't where I saw the story, but that is the exact quote I recall.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-04-29 07:49  

#8  trailing wife, link.
Go down to the bottom.
Posted by: tipper   2013-04-29 07:37  

#7  Not many degrees of separation between a number of characters and activities connected with the Marathon Massacre; makes me wonder if there's some fire behind the smoke that the Tsarnaevs were being protected or at least not restricted before the bombings, when one would have expected such. Perhaps they were being recruited as agents?
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-04-29 07:33  

#6  This Ruslan Tsmai, is this the same Ruslan Tsami that is married to the daughter of Graham Fuller, former CIA Chief Station, Kabul AFG?

Besoeker, I saw an article last night wherein Mr. Fuller claimed his daughter and Mr. Tsami, nee' Tsarnaev, divorced in 1999 after only three or four years of marriage. I'll see if I can find the link.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-04-29 07:16  

#5  Bring the car around Rico. Nothing to be seen here.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-29 00:46  

#4  Link to #2 [mind the noxious odor]
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-29 00:44  

#3  More friends
Canadian boxer linked to Boston bomber
Posted by: tipper   2013-04-29 00:42  

#2  This Ruslan Tsmai, is this the same Ruslan Tsami that is married to the daughter of Graham Fuller, former CIA Chief Station, Kabul AFG?

Well, yes it is, why do you ask ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-29 00:40  

#1  If you define crazy = radicalized Islamist then I think she may be crazy.
Posted by: tipover   2013-04-29 00:29  

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