The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy
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The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy
conspiratorial touchstone The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and his reading of publications fixated on the Rothschilds and on claims that Israel plotted 9/11. Then there is the fact that the murders took place on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, that two of the targets were Jewish with ties to Israel, and finally that there was a ritualistic
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Allegedly, Dzhokhar told Dias that Tamerlan “had committed jihad” in Waltham.
Susan Clare Zalkind • The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy
Tamerlan was reading material authored by al-Qaeda organizer Anwar Al-Awlaki about “stealing or taking or seizing the property of infidels.” Al-Awlaki apparently asserted that stealing money from nonbelievers to support jihad conformed to Islamic precepts.
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This is not an accusation I make lightly. If there were holes in this theory then I would be duty bound, by my own conscience if nothing else, to reveal them to you. That was the whole point of turning this book into a memoir, the reason I inserted myself into this narrative in the first place. This story could end with me banging my head against
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journalist who asked for help insisted that I could never report on this case myself because of my relationship to a victim. My best option, she said, was to give all my information to her and her partner, the senior reporter who hit on me after dangling a work opportunity. When I told her the story about her partner’s behavior—a pattern with him,
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The last one, a bony-looking man with dark hair and a broken nose, looked vaguely familiar. Five days later, the same photo would flash on news screens across the country. The man was Ibragim Todashev, and an FBI agent had shot him dead.
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She also thought that the date of the murders, September 11, 2011, was important. Their family is Israeli. She wanted to make sure investigators knew this. Rafi’s parents were Israeli too, she would later learn.
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what does 911 have to do with israelis?
in effect these interviews shaped the narrative—so that the news coverage about the report focused on Russia—and deflected criticism about the FBI.
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Russian officials purported to share what they knew about Tamerlan with the politicians in a gesture of transparency. Keating feared that the same intelligence failures outlined in the 9/11 Commission had been repeated and the guidelines to amend these failures had been ignored.