Wife of Man Executed by FBI Demands Justice

Wife of Man Executed by FBI Demands Justice Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com September 13, 2013

Ibragim Todashev executed after eight hours of FBI interrogation following Boston bombing The widow of Ibragim Todashev, Reni Todashev, told Alex Jones on Thursday that the FBI and the U.S. government have stonewalled attempts to find out what happened to her husband on May 22 of this year.

Widow of FBI Murdered Ibragim Todashev Tells All VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BxTqcLPUG8 “We really don’t have official papers of what happened,” she told Alex Jones, “so there is not much we can do before our investigation.”

Ibragim, an acquaintance of deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed by the FBI in Orlando, Florida, allegedly during an interrogation session related to the Boston bombing.

Following his death, Abdulbaki Todashev, the executed man’s father, said during a news conference in Russia that his son was killed by the FBI to keep him from talking.

“I want justice, I want an investigation,” he said. “They come to your house like bandits, and they shoot you.”

“Maybe my son knew some sort of information that the police didn’t want to get out,” he added. “They shut him up. That’s my opinion.”

The elder Todashev arrived in the United States in August determined to investigate his son’s murder.

Todashev speaks little English, cannot afford a lawyer, and has nothing more than a tourist visa to the United States, but the ACLU has vowed to help him, according to Russia Today. Todashev said he

plans to sue the FBI for his son’s death.

Prior to Todashev’s arrival in the U.S., an Islamic rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filed a formal complaint with the Department of Justice. The organization called for “an independent, thorough and transparent investigation” into the circumstances surrounding Ibragin’s death. In July, Infowars.com reported that the FBI had barred a Florida medical examiner from publicly releasing autopsy information that would have shed light on the death of the 27-year-old.

Reni Todashev admitted receiving justice for her husband’s murder at the hands of the FBI will be difficult, but vowed to press the case in the United States. She said there is a prosecutor in Florida who wants to investigate the case.

Alex said he believes Todashev was executed.

“They interviewed him for eight hours in the living room” of his Orlando apartment, Jones said during Thursday’s interview with Reni Todashev. “Let me tell you what this is… I know the standard procedure. You know what eight hours means, right? They got the info they wanted and they executed him.”

FBI Blocks Release Of Autopsy On Boston Suspects' Pal Michael Winter, USA TODAY July 16, 2013

Feds still investigating agent's fatal shooting of Ibragim Todashev during questioning in Florida.

The FBI has barred the Orlando medical examiner from releasing the autopsy report on a friend of the

Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was shot dead by an agent during questioning in May. Although the autopsy on Ibragim Todashev was completed July 8 and "ready for release," the FBI "has informed this office that the case is still under active investigation and thus not to release the document," Tony Miranda, forensic records coordinator for Orange and Osceola counties, wrote in a statement Tuesday. The statement cites a Florida statute that bars the release of autopsy reports during criminal investigations.

The ME's office said it would contact the FBI every month for authority to release the report.

An FBI agent killed 27-year-old Todashev in his Orlando apartment during questioning related to the bombings and an unsolved triple murder in Waltham, Mass., two years ago. The agency and the Justice Department are conducting an internal investigation.

STORY: Police kill man linked to Boston suspects, triple murder STORY: Execution, says father of man FBI shot; gov't. says he attacked The FBI and Massachusetts State Police have not released details of the fatal shooting. Initial reports, attributed to law enforcement officials, indicated that Todashev allegedly attacked the FBI agent May 22 while preparing to sign a statement implicating him and the Boston bombing suspects — Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — in the Sept. 11, 2011, triple slayings. DNA from Todashev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, both native Chechens, was being tested to see whether they were at the murder scene. It's not clear whether those tests have been completed. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died during a police shootout four days after the April 15 Boston bomb blasts, which killed three people and wounded more than 260. His brother was later captured and is facing trial.

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In-Laws Of Dead Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Testify Before Federal Grand Jury foxnews.com September 12, 2013 Associated Press The in-laws of slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev testified Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating the deadly April 15 attack.

Judith and Warren Russell, parents of Katherine Russell, declined to comment to The Associated Press as they entered the grand jury room in U.S. District Court in Boston.

Katherine Russell is the widow of Tsarnaev, who was killed in gunbattle with authorities pursing him and his brother for allegedly setting off two bombs near the race's finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 260.

The U.S. Attorney's office would not comment on whether Russell or anyone else is being investigated or why a grand jury continues to meet after four people have already been indicted.

Josh Dratel, a lawyer who represents Katherine Russell and her family, said her parents appeared after being subpoenaed to testify, and said they "told the truth."

Dratel said he has been told by prosecutors that Katherine Russell is not a target of the investigation.

When asked if he is concerned she could eventually become a target, Dratel said that could only result from political, not legal, motivations.

"We don't have concern that a professional prosecutor is going to look at it and see it as a basis for charging (Katherine)," Dratel said.

Dratel noted the high-profile nature of the terrorism case and the media frenzy that has accompanied it.

"We know that there's been pressure on law enforcement and the Justice Department in this case. We don't want her to be scapegoated as a result of that pressure."

Tamerlan's brother, Dzhokhar, was indicted on 30 counts in June and faces the possibility of the death penalty. Three of his friends were also indicted for allegedly lying to investigators or trying to cover up his role after the bombings.

Amato DeLuca, an attorney for Katherine Russell and her family, has said she didn't suspect her husband of anything before the bombings, and nothing seemed amiss in the days after. DeLuca told the AP on Thursday that her parents also knew nothing about their son-in-law's alleged involvement until after he was publicly identified by authorities. "They don't know anything. They have no knowledge," he said. When asked why they were called appear before the grand jury, DeLuca said, "They met Tamerlan, so I'm sure they're being asked about his background."

There are many unanswered questions about what Russell knew or did before and after the bombings. The couple lived in the Tsarnaev family's cramped Cambridge apartment, where federal authorities have said the brothers assembled the bombs. Russell has never spoken publicly, although DeLuca has said she was working 70 to 80 hours per week as a home health aide and had no reason to suspect her husband of anything.

Dratel said the grand jury's investigation "is not necessarily an investigation of Katherine." "It's an investigation of the entire situation," he said.

Russell, 24, grew up in an upper middle class family in the wooded suburban town of North Kingstown, R.I., and met Tamerlan Tsarnaev when she was a student at Suffolk University in Boston.

She had converted to Islam and was pregnant when they married at a Boston mosque in June 2010 — against her family's wishes and advice, according to her grandmother. She gave birth to their daughter a few months later and dropped out of college.

Russell reverted to using her maiden name and moved with her daughter to her parents' Rhode Island home immediately after her husband was killed and brother-in-law was captured in a massive manhunt that shut down the Boston area.

Russell has never been charged with any wrongdoing, but she has been questioned several times and was followed for several weeks after the bombings by federal authorities. Federal officials ended surveillance of her home around the time her brother-in-law was indicted, according to neighbors.

David Zlotnick, a professor at Roger Williams University School of Law and a former federal prosecutor, said the only reasons to keep a grand jury investigation going are if prosecutors believe there are still people who might need to be charged or that there could be additional charges for those already under indictment.

"I'm amazed this is still going on. One bomber's dead. The other one they have lock-solid proof of his guilt," he said.

Zlotnick said momentum might be the cause of the continuing investigation.

"Once the federal law enforcement system gears up and devotes resources, sometimes it has a life of its own. When do you stop?" he said. "They were told, get to the bottom of this, at some point someone has to take the politically unpopular step of ending it."

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