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| Feds seek Tsarnaev friend who posted jihadi images from Chechnya |
| 2014-03-05 |
| Federal agents are frantically searching for a friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after the young woman left her suburban Boston home on a trip to her family's native Chechnya last year and never returned. Heda Umarova, 23, reportedly stayed at the end of the August 2013 trip to marry a man she met there while her parents returned to their Massachusetts home. But in the interim, Umarova has posted "alarming" photos to social media sites, causing fear the young woman has been radicalized just like family friend Tsarnaev. Heda Umarova online postings included "depictions of Chechen jihadis brandishing weapons and a photo-shopped image of a U.S. passport in a carry-on bag bearing the black flag of jihad". A ranking law enforcement source involved in the Boston Marathon investigation said, "No one is calling Heda a terrorist but her travel has certainly garnered some attention. People are concerned that a 23-year-old is in Chechnya, a country that she fled from ... and now she is deciding to stay on her own." Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was close friends with Umarova's two brothers, Adam and Junes, who themselves were eyed by the police because of support they showed for their jailed friend online. They also reportedly tweeted back and forth with Dzhokhar just a day before the bombings. Those messages led investigators straight to the Umarov family's Chelsea home shortly after the bombing during the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers. The family allowed law enforcement to search the home, but to no avail. The source said, "We were already concerned about the social media exchanged with her brothers, who remain on the radar, especially the younger brother Junes, who was Dzhokhar's best friend." Last June, Heda Umarova was quoted in a news story about listening to conspiracy radio host Alex Jones, who has put forth a theory that the marathon bombing was perpetrated by the U.S. government - which has used the Tsarnaevs as scapegoats. Umarova admitted in the story to actively advancing the theory that her friends, the Tsarnaev brothers, were not involved in the bombings. "A lot of it is 'Oh my god, he is crazy,' but a lot of stuff he says make sense. He brings up a lot of valid points." she said of Jones. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 From Jihad Watch. Comment from JW: pongidae rex March 4, 2014 at 4:02 pm So they enter this country as ‘refugees’, then return a few years later to the country they fled, as affluent tourists with USA passports… The State Department of the USA is a pack of fools. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-05 04:27 |
| #1 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was close friends with Umarova's two brothers, Adam and Junes, who themselves were eyed by the police because of support they showed for their jailed friend online. They also reportedly tweeted back and forth with Dzhokhar just a day before the bombings. Those messages led investigators straight to the Umarov family's Chelsea home shortly after the bombing during the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers. The above represents a curiously incongruous sequence of events, to say the least. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-05 03:37 |