(AFP) Three British Muslims including a convert to Islam were jailed on Thursday for planning acts of terror. White Muslim convert Richard Dart, 30, a former security guard for the BBC, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment at England’s Old
Thanks to the “Public Safety Exception” to Miranda (which was created in 1980), the government is not forced to choose between treating a suspect as an enemy combatant or immediately allowing said suspect to hide behind an attorney and the
Updated: The text messages were sent from Tamerlan’s mother to other family members about Tamerlan. Tamerlan Tsarnaev had sent text messages to his mother stating that he was willing to die for Islam as early as 2011, according to two sources with
On Tuesday, USA Today and Breitbart News both reported that the Cambridge, MA mosque attended by the late Boston Marathon terror suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has ties to Islamist radicals. It was founded in part by Abdulrahman Alamoudi, who is now serving a
Now he’s in trouble. It is one thing for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be seen on security camera videos placing one of the bombs that killed three people at last week’s Boston Marathon. But now he’s really crossed a line. Tsarnaev is telling investigators he
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that in the years leading up to the devastating bombing attack on the Boston Marathon, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two bombing suspects, “fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakahn’s son, Mustapha Farrakahn, is being investigated by the Illinois Police Standards and Training Board after an investigation into his “part-time” status as a police officer in the Chicago suburb of Harvey, IL, revealed he
Via the AP: Two U.S. officials say preliminary evidence from an interrogation suggests the suspects in the Boston Marathon attack were motivated by religion but were apparently not tied to any Islamic terrorist groups. Someone alert MSNBC host, Melissa Harris
Friends of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife, Katherine Russell, describe the suspected Boston Marathon bomber who was killed in a Thursday evening shootout as someone who radically changed around 2008, believing Islam “was under attack.” According to NPR’s Laura Sullivan, Russell’s friends
ELLISON: Well, you know, it is too early for me to second-guess the FBI. I think we need to know more about what they knew. The fact of the matter is that it is good that they contacted him. That
With a few lucky breaks, last week’s Boston Marathon bombing could have had a dramatically different outcome. Had Tamerlan or Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sought help building their bombs on jihadist web forums, FBI agents likely would have detected it. They would have
(AP) Interrogators wait to query wounded bomb suspectBy BRIDGET MURPHY and KATIE ZEZIMAAssociated PressBOSTONAs the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay hospitalized under heavy guard, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender raised concerns
Every once in a while the host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher shelves his talking points to get at the truth. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it serves as a tonic to his HBO audience
He may have belonged to a radical sect, and he had some trouble with the fairer sex. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspected Boston Marathon bomber who was killed in a Thursday shootout, was married to an American woman named Katherine Russell
After Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspected Boston Marathon bomber whose older brother was killed earlier in a shootout, was captured alive on Friday after a extensive manhunt, a dour President Barack Obama addressed the nation. While he was adamant that the
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the now-deceased Suspect 1 in the Boston Marathon bombing, was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend by the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police on July 28, 2009 after he confessed to officers who arrived on the scene. “I slapped her,” Tsarnaev
Authorities in Massachusetts have identified suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday as Dzhokhar and (the now-deceased) Tamerlan Tsarnaev, two brothers of Chechen descent originally from Kyrgyzstan. Many Americans haven’t heard of the place; most couldn’t find it on
The mother of the two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon said that the elder brother, who was killed in a Thursday evening shootout, had found radical Islam five years ago and that the FBI had been concerned about
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the brothers who are suspected to have bombed the Boston Marathon, were on a “jihad mission” motivated by radical Islam. Graham also claimed Dzhokhar, who was captured alive on Friday, should
What a wonderful character insight it is to discover that David Remnick, the same biographer capable of summoning all kinds of eloquence and empathy for Boston’s accused mass-murdering terrorists, is also the same David Remnick that publicly smeared the ridiculously
Sometime in 2011, officials for a foreign government warned the FBI that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dead suspect in the Marathon bombing, may have ties to extremist organizations. The foreign government is likely Russia, which keeps close watch on ethnic Chechen ties
***ADDED: What a non-shock to discover Remnick is able to summon more empathy and eloquence for terrorists accused of mass murder than he did for the ridiculously peaceful Tea Party. Story here. Original story below… It is one thing to
A YouTube page that belonged to someone named Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who may have been one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers of the same name, showed Tsarnaev was an acolyte of a violent Australian Muslim cleric. The cleric, Feiz Mohammed,
Now that we know that the Boston Marathon bombers were Muslims from the Russian Caucasus, it is clear the war is here. Boston is a war zone, yet still the media is disarming the American people by refusing to address
Over the course of the day on Friday, details about the background of the two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing began to leak out. Much of it surrounded the religious radicalization of the two men. Here is a
