Breaking: Explosion Reported at Boston Marathon's Finish Line

[Dawn Meredith]

The saga continues....this time it's the connections of the poor widow.

http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/05/04/ts...nnections/

Can this story get any weirder?

Dawn

This is just ridiculous.

Marina.... Sorry Katherine Russell Tsarnaev always had to be a person of interest.

Instead, according to the Official Story, the Feds knocked on her door, KRT replied "sorry, I'm busy", and the Feds then backed off.

Again, according to the Official Story, Katherine Russell is the wife of a "dead terrorist", and there's "a cell of 10 more terrorists" plotting mayhem in the US....

How can she not be "a person of interest" right from the first official identification of her husband?

Here's what I posted back on April 23:

A day of fresh evidence later, I stand by every word in my post below.

I also add an update showing that the Volkland Security State is still pussyfooting around Marina, sorry Katherine Russell Tsarnaev:

Team - excellent work.

I didn't believe Uncle Ruslan's righteous denunciation when I first heard and saw it.

His background is, ahem, spectacularly spooky.

Now, consider this. Chechen sources state that if the older brother Tamerlan was radicalised in a Chechen mujahadeen camp then he would been considered for deployment in an action against Russia. They are adamant that there is no way he would have been deployed in an action against America.

So, the chatter between the FBI and the KGB is far more likely to have consisted of searching for any signs of anti-Russian activity on Tamerlan's part.

However, back in America, Tamerlan's mujahadeen background may have prompted US intelligence to recruit him as a double agent to penetrate radical islamic groups.

We're always told how desperate western intelligence is for convincing "human int".

There are curious parallels with Oswald, who travels to the USSR, marries a Russian woman and has a child, in what seems to be a marriage of convenience.

Tamerlan marries an American woman, Katherine Russell, and has a child.

The following piece is frankly unbelievable.

The FBI is still negotiating with a family lawyer as they request an interview with Marina Os...... Sorry, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev.





So, on the one hand we have hysterical claims that the brothers were about to go on a mass killing spree. Whilst on the other hand, the authorities are pussyfooting around wondering whether they can interview Mrs Tsarnaev, who is surely a primary witness as to what her supposedly murderous husband was planning.

Please. Pretty please. Please can we interview Mrs Tsarnaev?


:monkeypiss: :director:

Just like LHO, Tamerlan reeks of double-come-triple agent, set up by his handlers as an ideal patsy to ensure a national security state coverup.

Note that already the FBI is being incredibly defensive, and doubtless shredding and burning much evidence of its interactions wtih Tamerlan.

Question number one is: Who ran Tamerlan?

If Oswald is the model for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, there is enough noise and potential collateral damage to ensure that all parts of the national security state must commit to the Official Story.

Boston's version of the Warren Commission.

Here's a rhetorical but serious question:

Who gets to play Richard Case Nagell - The Man Who Knew Too Much - in this tangled web?

So, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev is not being waterboarded, not being rendered, not being subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques.

She doesn't want to talk to the Volkland Security Complex and that's fine with them....


:popworm:

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Wife Katherine Russell Not Willing To Talk To FBI

Tue, April 23, 2013 8:24am EDT by Christina Stiehl 20 Comments

Katherine Russell Tsarnaev Questioned
Courtesy of ABC News/Twitter

Federal authorities tried to question the wife of dead Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 but the 24-year-old mother still refuses to talk to police. Read on for more details.

The FBI is still waiting to talk to Katherine Russell, the widow of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, for information surrounding the deadly April 15 attacks that killed three and injured 176. Authorities showed up to Katherine's parents' Rhode Island home on April 21, but she refused to talk to the feds.

Katherine Russell Questioned What Does She Know About Boston Bombing?

Katherine's lawyer, Amato DeLuca, told the Associated Press that she declined to speak to authorities when they arrived at her parents house. He told the Associated Press:

"I spoke to them, and that's all I can say right now," he said.

Amato also added that his client wasn't aware of her husband's alleged involvement in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing until she saw photos of the suspects on TV.

"When this allegedly was going on, she was working, and had been working all week to support her family," he told the Associated Press.

When asked whether or not anything seemed wrong to Katherine following the bombings, her lawyer responded, "not as far as I know."

Amato told reporters he spoke with federal officials, but wouldn't give any more details.

"We're deciding what we want to do and how we want to approach this," he said.

Katherine Russell All-American College Student

Katherine was known as a promising artist and student, and a typical all-American suburban daughter of Christian parents. But she shocked friends and family members when she dropped out of college at the age of 21 to get married to Tamerlan. They welcomed their first child soon after, a daughter named Zahara.

So MSM tells us all about how they got welfare, section eight housing (free) food stamps yet none of the "investigative journalists" see fit to ask who financed all the travel? Not to mention the expensive car. To qualify for these programs you have to prove you are indigent. I guess the media is content to believe his "terrorist connections" paid. A marriage of convenience? Not very convenient for her dead husband. Who is Amato DeLuca I am wondering. Not your average lawyer I'll wager. Time to dig into his/her background. Because the Feds' response is wholly uncharacteristic.
Dawn

[Dawn Meredith]

"Amato DeLuca has practiced law for more than three decades, focusing his work in the areas of Medical Negligence, Catastrophic Injury, and Product Liability."

OK so she can afford a "super lawyer" but his areas of practice are totally unrelated to this case. He's a fucking big time PI lawyer. Not criminal or ACLU.
Family friend probably. All good "company folks" perhaps.

Dawn

[Peter Lemkin]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is Key Suspect in 2011 Waltham, Mass. Murders

By Paul Sheehan / Sydney Morning HeraldMay 5th




Related (?): "Boston Bombings: FBI Agent at Center of Case is Under Investigation for Ties to Mafia Boss Accused of Heroin Dealing & Multiple Murders"
Caveat: Most reporters, accustomed to taking dictation at official press conferences and slapping on a headline, have totally missed the fact that the FBI agent who led the Boston bombing investigation has longstanding ties to a rabid Mafia capo. As a result, all newspaper reports on the 2011 Waltham triple-homicides (subject of the attached story) claim, after local law enforcement and FBI statements, that accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev is the lead suspect in the murders. But there are grounds for skepticism here: "As a local resident of the area," writes a Bostonian who has followed the case from the start, "and friend to faculty on the police forces, city and state, not only does the Chief Of Watertown Police story on CNN not match what I was told, but also, I remember vaguely that the unsolved murder[s] in Waltham appeared to be some type of International Mafia Hit." The murder victims in Waltham were reportedly in the drug trade. Mafioso Mark Rossetti, who was handled by the FBI at the time, was also in the drug business and is suspected of multiple drug-related murders in the area while the Boston FBI looked the other way. In light of these facts, it is entirely possible that the Waltham murders were Mafia-related, that Tsarnaev is a convenient decoy to draw attention away from corruption within the Bureau. AC

Deaths may shed light on a killer

May 6, 2013

The last time anyone heard from Erik Weissman was at 8.54 pm on September 11, 2011, when he placed a call to Gerry's Italian Kitchen, in suburban Boston, and ordered three dinners. A home delivery arrived promptly at 9.14 pm but no one responded at the door. The restaurant called Weissman's mobile phone but there was no answer.
It was a Sunday night and Weissman, 31, had been watching a football game between the New York Jets and the Dallas Cowboys at the apartment of a friend, Brendan Mess, 25, and another friend, Raphael Teken, 37, in a quiet suburban street in Waltham. What happened to these men was macabre. It could prove to have worldwide relevance.
Their bodies were discovered the next afternoon, each in separate rooms, all killed the same way, by having their throats slit from ear to ear. There was also a ritual element: each corpse was strewn with marijuana and cash. Police found $5000 in the apartment, so robbery was not seen as a motive.
A Waltham police investigator recently told America's ABC network: "It is the worst bloodbath I have ever seen in a long law enforcement career. There was no forced entry. It was clear that the victims had let the killer in. And their throats were slashed right out of an al-Qaeda training video. The drugs and money on the bodies was very strange."
The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has announced it is reactivating the Waltham murders. They will be seeking evidence that the killings were the work of a psychopath who was also a Muslim fundamentalist. Their target is specific: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber shot dead on April 19.

The murders remain unsolved. No suspect was identified. Suddenly, the trail of evidence, circumstance and reasonable supposition to Tsarnaev is wide and deep.
Investigators now believe Tsarnaev was one of the last people to see Mess alive. The men knew each other well. Tsarnaev had been a frequent visitor to Mess's apartment. They had attended the same high school. Both were boxers and had sparred together many times. Their friendship at the local gym was well known.
But friction had come between them over Tsarnaev's disapproval of Mess's lifestyle. Certainly Mess, Weissman and Teken had a dark side. Weissman was a bodybuilder who in 2008 had been charged with intent to distribute marijuana. Teken was also probably a drug dealer. Neighbours described him as spending most of his time at home where he received a string of visitors. Mess, a martial arts instructor, was charged with assault in 2010. The large amount of drugs and cash in his apartment indicate links to a drug culture.
The murder scene showed no signs of forced entry and the coroner concluded the killer or killers had known at least one of the victims. The date of the murders was highly symbolic. It was the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington. Tsarnaev had come to espouse the apologist view that the bombings were a CIA set-up to ferment war against Muslims. In 2008, he had became a devout Muslim and began attending the Islamic Society of Boston mosque, known for its Islamic victimology and sense of grievance against the West.
Anti-semitism lies at the visceral core of Muslim fundamentalism and the victims were Jewish. At the time of the killings, Tsarnaev was a radical Islamist with a rigid interpretation of Islam and was affronted by Israel.
Tsarnaev did not attend the memorial service for his friend Mess. Soon after the murders he left the country, travelling to Russia. He spent six months among the restive Muslim populations of Dagestan and Chechnya, and linked with two Muslim extremists, William Plotnikov and Makhmud Mansur Nidal, both of whom were killed by Russian security while he was in the country.
The Russian Federal Security Service informed the FBI Tsarnaev had become a radicalised Muslim. The FBI tracked his access to radical Islamic sites. The CIA placed him on its watch list of possible terrorists.
When Tsarnaev returned from Russia last year he wore a long beard, had become a religious zealot, and followed jihadi sites on the internet.
He also had long exhibited a violent temper. In 2007, he assaulted a student who had been dating his younger sister. In 2008, he demanded that his then girlfriend convert to Islam and cover herself with a hijab. In 2009, he was charged with aggravated domestic assault for assaulting a second girlfriend.
He married another woman; neighbours told reporters that shouting was often heard inside their home.
His conduct had become highly zealous. This year he disrupted a sermon at a mosque when the speaker compared the prophet Muhammad to Martin Luther King jnr. He was asked not to return to the mosque.
On April 15, he planted a bomb at the Boston Marathon with the intent to kill and maim as many people as possible, including children. He had made no plans to escape, which suggests a sense of impunity. He had not been expecting to be identified and might have already committed serious crimes with impunity.
On April 18, having been identified, he shot and killed a university police officer and hijacked a car. The next day he attacked pursuing police, firing wildly, and was gunned down. He had become a mean, intolerant, violent man.
The trail back to the bloody apartment at Waltham suggests he might have already been committing murders under the cloak and banner of jihad. He had found a cause that he could use to rationalise his malevolence.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/deaths-may...z2SQucFUgS

[David Guyatt]

info@thecraft.com

Sure.

The Craft, eh?

For those with Eyes Wide Open:

This had also occurred to me too Jan. And when you combine this with the fact that the founder of Craft International claims to have been a Knight Templar, things sort of clarify.

The Knights Templar degree of York (i.e., US) Freemasonry is, according to this website:

Grand Encampment, Knights Templar, USA



The Chivalric Orders are a set of three Orders culminating in the grade of Knight Templar, and controlled by that body. This body is markedly different from its foreign counterparts, in that it exhibits a paramilitary structure and outlook on Masonry, being the only branch of Masonry in the world that is a uniformed body. Its requirement that its members be professed Christians has led to calls of condemnation from other Masonic bodies and organizations both inside and outside the United States, claiming that the body is more of a Christian organization rather than a Masonic body. These have had little effect on the body, however, as many of the organizations criticizing the body have similar degrees among themselves. The American body is also arranged different from its nearest relatives in England. The American body includes the Illustrious Order of the Red Cross, which is not conferred in any other organization, though it has very close cousins in the Irish and American Order of Knight Masons and in the English Allied Masonic Degrees grade of the Red Cross of Babylon. Also, in the United States, the Order of Malta is conferred on members before being eligible to receive the Order of the Temple, whereas in England, the Order of Malta is an honorary grade bestowed on Knights Templar. In the United States, all business is transacted in the Order of the Temple, the other bodies only being opened for the conferral of the Orders. In England, the Order of Malta meets and operates as a separate body in addition to the Order of the Temple.

My bolding.

[Albert Doyle]

Though the term is used mostly by internet kids, "illuminati" comes to mind.

[David Guyatt]

I really think we need to revisit the topic of an exercise/drill involving private military contractors. From the way officials immediately shouted "it's a drill" when the first bomb exploded, it seems evident that this exercise involved a bomb, possibly a dirty bomb judged by the radiation detector shown in previous posts.

As we know, both 911 and London 7/7 had similar security exercises ongoing that the events actually replicated.

In the London 7/7 the exercise even had the same target tube stations etc. Photos of Met police officers from SO19 (at least one anyway) toting a Heckler & Kock non-fasctory standard assault rifle were discussed at one H & K forum I visited. The conclusion was that the police officer was almost certainly SAS dressed as SO19. Much later all those pictures had disappeared.

None of this can simply be put down to coincidence. It is something more than that. Were the exercises a cover for the real thing or did the perpetrators have inside knowledge and piggyback the exercises?

What is quite clear from the below report is that exercises of this type are very unusual at large marathon events.

I entirely understand Pete's concerns about this.

Yes, too coincidental for be believed isn't it?

And should be easy enough to resolve but I doubt we will be told who ordered (World of War) Craft to front up for the day. And I doubt the MSM will be asking either.

Why Such Secrecy about Private Military Contractor's Men Working the Event?

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 14:09

by:
Dave Lindorff



Speaking as an investigative reporter with almost 40 years's experience, I can say that when government officials won't talk, they're generally hiding something embarrassing or worse.
I tried, and nobody will talk about those Craft International Services private security personnel who were widely observed and photographed near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, wearing security ear-pieces, hats and T-shirts bearing the company's skull logo, and all wearing the same dark coats, khaki pants and combat boots, some carrying what appear to have been radiation detectors. (I got no hard answers, though there were some inadvertent hints given.)
I first contacted a man identifying himself as Jack Fleming, a public affairs person with the Boston Athletic Assn., sponsor of the marathon. Fleming advised me that "If you want to ask about that you should contact the Commonwealth (of Massachusetts) Executive Office of Public Safety."
I called that agency and spoke with the public information office there, a man named Terrell. He first said, "Did you call the Marathon organizers?" When I replied that I had, and that they had said to call his office, he replied, "They did?" Then he said, "You should call the City of Boston Police Department. They released a security plan to some media organizations."
Indeed they had released that plan to the Boston Globe. Based upon the information it got from the police the article the Globe ran, did report that the Police had deployed "air patrols, K9 units, and more than 1,000 uniformed officers and soldiers along the 26-mile course and the finish line," but it made no mention of the private contracting of soldiers-for-hire, which is what Craft International does (see the Craft website). News agency Reuters reported, meanwhile, that a top official for the Massachusetts state Homeland Security Department, Undersecretary Kurt Schwartz, told a group at Harvard U. that his agency had "planned" for a possible bombing attack on the marathon, even running a "table-top" exercise about such an event a week before the race.
I called the Boston Police to ask if they had hired the Craft International personnel who were observed at the scene just before and after the bombing, and was told by the public affairs office there that "Anything having to do with the investigation of the bombing would have to be referred to the FBI Boston Division office." When I pointed out that I wasn't asking anything about the investigation, but was simply asking who had hired the security personnel from Craft International, the answer was simply repeated: "You'll have to ask the FBI."
So I called the FBI, and got a public affairs person there named Amanda Cox. Her initial response to my question was, "I do not have any information on that."
Seven apparent Craft International rent-a-soldiers behind and departing (top rt. with backpack) a communications van

I then said I had been referred to her by the Boston Police Department, and said that photos of the scene after the bombing had shown Craft International personnel conversing with FBI agents. She then put down the phone, and I could hear her turn to a supervisor and ask, her voice muffled, "This guy's asking about the Craft Security Consultants -- who hired them and what they were doing."
I next overheard the muffled voice of another woman to whom she had been speaking reply, "I think you could safely say, I do know we worked with a lot of people who worked on security at the marathon...'" After that I couldn't make out what was being said.
Cox later returned to the phone, and instead told me, "I'd refer you to the company on any information about who hired them." (Taken together the overheard conversation and the official answer from Cox would at least seem to confirm that Craft's people were hired for the event, and that the FBI knows a lot more than it is willing to say about them.)
My next step was to call Craft International. The company has no phone number listed on its website -- just a general email address of info@thecraft.com (to which I wrote to asking for information, but which elicited no response)--but I found one listed for their headquarters office at 2101 Cedar Springs Rd., Suite 1400, Dallas, TX, in a listing on the company published in a directory in Bloomberg Businessweek, This entry noted that the company, in addition to "providing security, defense, and combat weapons training services for military, police, corporate and civilian clients in the US and internationally," also "offers corporate and private and civilian training services..." The number, published in a business magazine, was clearly meant as a contact for potential customers to call.
A woman answered the phone brightly with the company's name. However, when I identified myself as a reporter, and said I was wondering if someone could tell me who had hired personnel from the firm to work at the Boston Marathon, she responded with a flummoxed: "Um, I um, don't really have any information on that. I'm just an answering service."
I replied, "Look, the number I called is listed as the number of the company's corporate headquarters at 2101 Cedar Springs Road. You're not an answering service."
At that point she said, "Let me see who I can transfer you to."
However, after a long pause, she was back, and said, "The answer I've been given is that you should go to the website, where there's an email address you can write to with your question."
I had already done that, I told her. She then said she couldn't help me and hung up.
I also called the US Department of Homeland Security, but a women named Angela who answered the press office number for this public government agency (she refused to provide her last name despite being the public information office) said the DHS media office was "only taking inquiries sent in by email." I sent in an inquiry asking if any unit of the DHS had hired Craft International to provide security at the Boston Marathon, but so far (note: two days later!) have received no response.
As things stand, since it's highly unlikely that Craft International, a private for-profit enterprise founded by the late ace Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle, would have "hired" itself to police the Marathon gratis, it seems pretty clear that we had rent-a-special forces-soldier people, hired by some agency, at the scene of the bombing ahead of the bombing.
And we have no reporting on this in the mainstream corporate media.
Why? I have no answer to that.
I did write to Andrea Estes, the lead writer of the Globe's piece on police security planning mentioned above, who is described in her bio on the Globe's website staff page as an "investigative reporter specializing in government accountability."
I called and left a message on her phone, and sent her an email, asking if she had looked into the Craft Security personnel, to see who hired them, what they were doing at the race finish line, and why they appeared be carrying radiation detectors. She has so far not responded to my request for information and assistance concerning anything she had done or learned about this, or whether she had looked into it at all.
Certainly there is a big accountability question. A bunch of them actually. Here are a few:
* If Craft International people were hired, who hired them and why?
* If it was the Boston Police or the FBI that hired them, why won't they just say so? Simply hiring outside security help should not be a secret, and could in no way affect the investigation into the bombing and the captured suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, so why the secrecy about that? Given all the police presence, and the size of the FBI's Boston division, why did they need those extra guys from a private rent-a-soldier firm?
* If it was not the Boston Police or the FBI, what agency did hire the company, and why?
* If it was the state's Homeland Security Dept. or or the state Executive Office of Public Safety, or perhaps more likely, the US Department of Homeland Security, did they notify the FBI that they had done so, and tell the agency what had prompted them to do this? 

* The big overarching question when it comes to who hired Craft International is, what possible gain in security could have been achieved by adding what appears to be seven guys (or perhaps a few more who didn't appear in photos) from a private security firm when the Boston Police had in place over 1000 armed security people from their office and the National Guard, and when, as became evident immediately after the bombs went off, a large number of FBI personnel were also on hand?
Unless, of course, the Craft Security people were aware of something that we, the public, including the race participants and spectators, and perhaps even the police and FBI, were not aware of.
Transparency is critical to accountability. At this point, it is clear that we have had a massive failure of the national security state. Despite the fact that the FBI was aware of concerns about Tarmelan Tsarnaev, and the fact that the CIA had him on a watch list, he appears to have been able to work on line to learn how to build a powerful homemade bomb, to obtain the materials, including a substantial quantity of black powder, to build a number of them, and, allegedly with the help of his younger brother Dzhokhar, to place them near the finish line and detonate two of them, killing three people and injuring as many as 200. That's a huge intelligence fail.
It would be an even bigger fail if it turns out that some agency had awareness of a credible threat and that it hired Craft International personnel to prevent it. We clearly need to know, and have a right to demand to know, who hired those men and why. After all, at a minimum, on the face of things, they did an abysmal job of preventing a bombing right in front of their supposedly well-trained noses.
And of course, as I wrote earlier, there is also another question, which is really disturbing: The image of the exploded backpack released by the FBI and identified as the remains of the pack that was carrying one of the two pressure-cooker bombs, prominently displays a white square on a black background. This is not a doctored photograph; it's the photograph that was released by the FBI. There are also at least two photos depicting one of the Craft International men who is wearing a black backpack identical to several of the other Craft International personnel. The same white square is also visible on the top of his pack.
There does not appear to be any such white marking -- square or otherwise -- on the top of the black backpack worn by Tarmelan Tsarnaev, as observed in several security photos taken of him (Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was shown carrying a smaller white or light-colored pack, slung over one shoulder). Check out the images below of Tarmelan, the exploded bag and the Craft International character:
FBI image of exploded pack with white square, white square on Craft guy's pack, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left.) with pack but clearly no white square marking

I am not drawing any conclusions from any of this, but I will say that when government agencies at all levels and a private contracting firm are all this obtuse and secretive (and in some cases even deceptive) about what should be a simple question -- who hired these men? -- my suspicions are aroused.
Somebody's clearly hiding something.
And by the way, why aren't the mainstream media asking about this? Are corporate media journalists so intimidated about being labeled "conspiracy nuts" that they can't do their jobs? At a minimum, this goes to the question of accountability. It also goes to the question of inter-agency communication or lack of it. And given what we know about how many times the FBI has been an active encourager and enabler of terror plots which it later thwarts and claims credit for preventing, there's the question, too of potential official culpability. Furthermore, when an horrific incident like this is used to justify such new threats to our Constitutional freedom as an unprecedented martial law-style lockdown of an entire 1-million-person metropolitan area and a precedent-setting deliberately Miranda-free, attorney-free interrogation of a hospitalized, gravely wounded and sedated suspect, it is critical that the whole story be told, not just the official one.
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1718

For me, as things currently stand anyway, Craft International are the hub of this event. That no one will speak about them - from MSM through to all law enforcement and other agencies - speaks volumes. I actually think that the missing backpack from the Craft guy in the youtube footage (at 4:30) posted by Pete in post number 453 may also be quite germane to these discussions. Where did it disappear to, post the bombing?

[Peter Lemkin]

For me, as things currently stand anyway, Craft International are the hub of this event. That no one will speak about them - from MSM through to all law enforcement and other agencies - speaks volumes. I actually think that the missing backpack from the Craft guy in the youtube footage (at 4:30) posted by Pete in post number 453 may also be quite germane to these discussions. Where did it disappear to, post the bombing?

He probably simply 'misplaced' it - or had it nicked....but what do you expect? - certainly not an I-N-V-E-S-T-i-G-A-T-I-O-N!!!!!!!??? Oh, P_L_E_A_S_E!!!!! [in my best Monty Python voice]
They are not 'National Security' approved events! :darthvader:...create 'problems' best avoided, along with the Truth.

[Magda Hassan]

"Amato DeLuca has practiced law for more than three decades, focusing his work in the areas of Medical Negligence, Catastrophic Injury, and Product Liability."

OK so she can afford a "super lawyer" but his areas of practice are totally unrelated to this case. He's a fucking big time PI lawyer. Not criminal or ACLU.
Family friend probably. All good "company folks" perhaps.

Dawn

Now she has herself a 'terrorism' lawyer. What ever that is...

Boston Suspect's Widow Hires Terrorism Lawyer

The wife of deceased bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev continues to answer questions from police as she expands her legal team.

12:57am UK, Thursday 09 May 2013

Katherine Russell has worked to distance herself from her late husband
By Sky News US Team

The widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has hired a criminal lawyer who has experience defending terrorism cases.
Attorney Amato DeLuca says his client, Katherine Russell, has added New York lawyer Joshua Dratel to her legal team as she continues to face questions from federal authorities.
Mr DeLuca says Ms Russell will keep meeting with investigators and answering questions.
Mr DeLuca and Miriam Weizenbaum have been representing Ms Russell, who lives in Rhode Island with her family, since her husband was killed nearly three weeks ago. They specialise in civil cases such as personal injury law.
Mr DeLuca has said Ms Russell had no reason to suspect her husband and his brother, Dzhokhar, had anything to do with the deadly April 15 bombing.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma [Didn't look that blunt form the autopsie phot. Looked bloody big and sharp. MH] Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body remains at a Worcester, Massachusetts, funeral home after more than 100 cemeteries have refused to bury him.
On Wednesday Worcester Police Chief Gary Gemme urged someone to take on the task, saying: "We are not barbarians. We bury the dead."
Police say it has so far cost tens of thousands of dollars to provide security at the funeral home run by Peter Stefan, who was hired to prepare Tsarnaev's body for burial.



Tamerlan Tsarnaev died following a gun battle with police, and 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in a prison hospital, facing charges that could bring the death penalty.

[Magda Hassan]

For me, as things currently stand anyway, Craft International are the hub of this event. That no one will speak about them - from MSM through to all law enforcement and other agencies - speaks volumes. I actually think that the missing backpack from the Craft guy in the youtube footage (at 4:30) posted by Pete in post number 453 may also be quite germane to these discussions. Where did it disappear to, post the bombing?

Me too David. And nothing in the MSM about it...very telling.

[Peter Lemkin]

Where is Katherine Russell getting all the money for this fancy legal team? I thought they were on welfare? Maybe some 'rich uncle'? :mexican: