Cemeteries In 3 States Reject Boston Bomber Burial

A police cruiser parked outside the Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlor Friday. BOSTON (CBS) – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s official cause of death will be listed as gunshot wounds and blunt trauma, a law enforcement source told WBZ-TV’s Joe Shortsleeve on Friday. Tsarnaev’s body is now at a funeral home in Worcester. Peter Stefan, owner ...

Funeral Director: Boston Jihadi Bomber Died Of Gunshots, Blunt Trauma

Excerpted from AP — A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said Friday. Worcester funeral home owner Peter Stefan has 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body and read details from his death certificate. The certificate cites Tsarnaev's "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities" and ...

Obama: Not Fair To Say FBI ‘Dropped The Ball’ On Boston Jihadi Bomber

Excerpted from THE HILL President Obama defended the FBI's handling of deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in an interview Friday, after some Republican lawmakers have charged the nation's intelligence and law enforcement agencies failed to coordinate their investigations. "I don’t think it’s fair to say though that law enforcement 'dropped the ball,'" Obama told Univision. ...

CBS News: Boston Marathon Bomb DNA Does Not Match Jihadi Wife

Excerpted from CBS BOSTON – Female DNA and fingerprints found on a bomb fragment recovered from the Boston Marathon attacks do not match the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, CBS News reported Friday. The FBI collected DNA and hair samples from Katherine Russell at her parents’ home in North Kingstown, Rhode Island Monday. The source of the genetic ...

Former ‘Fling’ Of Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Reveals Three Alleged Accomplices ‘Idolized’ Him

Excerpted from New York Daily News: A young woman at UMass-Dartmouth who lived in the same dormitory as Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev claims that her two-week fling with him revealed his true colors. The female student, who requested to remain anonymous to protect her privacy, told Mother Jones that Tsarnaev, 19, was always flanked ...

Federal Judge Releases Terror Suspect Who Wanted To Join Al-Qaeda To ‘Home Confinement’

Chicago Tribune: A federal judge today ordered that an Aurora teen be released to home confinement while he awaits trial on charges he sought to join a terror group linked to al-Qaida in Syria. However, the suspect remained in custody after federal prosecutors quickly announced they would appeal the rare decision to ...

Jihadi Bombers Planned To Carry Out An Attack On July 4, But Bombs Were Ready Early

Excerpted from CNN The bombs used in the Boston Marathon attack were built in the apartment that suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev shared with his wife and child, a U.S. law enforcement official with first-hand knowledge of the investigation told CNN on Thursday. The official was not authorized to release the information. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev initially planned to ...

Remains of Boston Jihadi Bomber Claimed

Excerpted from AP BOSTON—The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was claimed Thursday. Department of Public Safety spokesman Terrel Harris said a funeral home retained by Tsarnaev's family picked up the 26-year-old's remains Thursday. He had no more information. The medical examiner determined Tsarnaev's cause of death Monday, but officials said it wouldn't become public ...

Searchers ‘Missed the Boat’ With Jihadi In It As Paramilitary Force Skips Street

Excerpted from BLOOMBERG Sue Lund lives about five blocks from where police engaged in a wild shootout April 19 with the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects and about eight doors down from where the one who escaped alive was found 18 hours later. Yet, during the all-day manhunt, she said police never searched her Franklin Street ...

One Of The Foreigners Arrested In Boston Terrorist Attack Case Entered U.S Without Visa

Excerpted from FOX NEWS WASHINGTON – One of three college students arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the United States from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Authorities charged the student -- a friend and classmate ...

Third Foreigner Arrested As Boston Bombing Accomplice ID’d

Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Robel Phillipos, a 19-year old Cambridge, Massachusetts resident, was charged with lying to federal agents in connection with an investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings. Phillipos, who was reportedly a classmate of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at UMass Dartmouth, allegedly admitted to joining with Tsarnaev’s friends, Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, in ...