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Officials: No sign 'Misha' tied to Boston bombing

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 27th

By MATT APUZZOAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials say investigators have found no evidence that a conservative Muslim friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev had any connection to the Boston Marathon bombing. Tsarnaev is one of two suspects in the bombing. He died in a shootout with police.

Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 27th

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZOAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received

Investigators push ahead in Boston bombing probe

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 27th

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and EILEEN SULLIVANAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) - With the Boston marathon bombing suspect in a prison hospital, investigators are pushing forward in the U.S. and abroad to piece together the myriad details of a plot that killed three people and injured more than 260. FBI

Boston bombing suspects' mom in terror database

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 26th

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and JULIE PACEAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials told The Associated Press. She called it "lies and hypocrisy" and said she

American jihadi in Somalia tweets on kill attempt

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 26th

By JASON STRAZIUSOAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A most-wanted American jihadi in Somalia said Friday that the leader of Islamic extremist rebels in Somali was starting a civil war, just hours after an assassination attempt left the Alabama native with a neck wound. Omar Hammami posted on

Refugee Shares Story Of His Run From Terror

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 26th

KHQ.COM - Following the attacks on the city of Boston just one week ago, many reports have looked at people who left the countries of Kyrgystan in Central Asia, and Chechnya in Russia, for a new life in America. The reason? Because the alleged bombers grew up in the area, an area that's known

Refugee Shares Story Of His Run From Terror

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 26th

KHQ.COM - Following the attacks on the city of Boston just one week ago, many reports have looked at people who left the countries of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, and Chechnya in Russia, for a new life in America. The reason? Because the alleged bombers grew up in the area, an area that's

Miranda warning, then silence from bombing suspect

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 25th

By PETE YOST, LARA JAKES and RODRIQUE NGOWIAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) - Sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating him, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings went silent: he'd just been read his constitutional rights. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev immediately stopped talking

Officials: Dead bomber name in terrorism database

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 24th

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and KIMBERLY DOZIERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government added the name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a terrorist database 18 months before the deadly explosions, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The CIA made the request

Officials: Dead bomber name in terrorism database

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 24th