red states rule
04-24-2013, 04:03 PM
Talk about bombing the hand that fed you
Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned.
State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. The state's Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits. Russell Tsarnaev's attorney has claimed Katherine -- who had converted to Islam -- was working up to 80 hours a week as a home health aide while Tsarnaev stayed at home.
In addition, both of Tsarnaev's parents received benefits, and accused brother bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were recipients through their parents when they were younger, according to the state.
The news raises questions over whether Tsarnaev financed his radicalization on taxpayer money.
Relatives and news reports have indicated that Tamerlan Tsarnaev's descent into extremist Islam began around 2008 or 2009, when the ethnic Chechen met a convert identified only as "Misha," began to become more devout, and sought out jihadist and conspiracy theorist websites, and the rabidly anti-Semitic propaganda tract, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
In 2009, he was quoted in a photo essay as saying, "I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them," adding that he believed Americans had lost their "values."
His uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev said it was around that time his nephew gave up drinking and was devoting himself to "God's business," while Tamerlan's mother, now wearing a hijab -- an Islamic headscarf -- began relating conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks to her cosmetology clients that she said her son had told her.
http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_33176.php
Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned.
State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. The state's Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits. Russell Tsarnaev's attorney has claimed Katherine -- who had converted to Islam -- was working up to 80 hours a week as a home health aide while Tsarnaev stayed at home.
In addition, both of Tsarnaev's parents received benefits, and accused brother bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were recipients through their parents when they were younger, according to the state.
The news raises questions over whether Tsarnaev financed his radicalization on taxpayer money.
Relatives and news reports have indicated that Tamerlan Tsarnaev's descent into extremist Islam began around 2008 or 2009, when the ethnic Chechen met a convert identified only as "Misha," began to become more devout, and sought out jihadist and conspiracy theorist websites, and the rabidly anti-Semitic propaganda tract, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
In 2009, he was quoted in a photo essay as saying, "I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them," adding that he believed Americans had lost their "values."
His uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev said it was around that time his nephew gave up drinking and was devoting himself to "God's business," while Tamerlan's mother, now wearing a hijab -- an Islamic headscarf -- began relating conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks to her cosmetology clients that she said her son had told her.
http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_33176.php