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.

inside the Tsarnaev family home, Tamerlan’s interests were not only tolerated but encouraged.

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.

He and Tamerlan remained close, and Elmirza eventually married Tamerlan’s sister Ailina—the marriage ended when she called the cops on him for strangling her. Tamerlan paid Elmirza’s bail.

When Tamerlan visited Elmirza in Washington, in 2008, he had Elmirza watch the film Zeitgeist, which claims that 9/11 was a hoax. Elmirza said Tamerlan was also a fan of Alex Jones’s InfoWars.

The first settler to own land in Waltham was a violent sea captain named John Oldham, also known as Mad Jack. Oldham was murdered off the coast of Block Island in 1636. Winthrop would use the mystery surrounding Oldham’s death to justify a brutal war against the Pequot nation. Prior to the war (which the Pequot people tried to avert) the Pequot

in effect these interviews shaped the narrative—so that the news coverage about the report focused on Russia—and deflected criticism about the FBI.

Zubeidat had exchanged her colorful outfits and loud jewelry for a black hijab. The color of the hijab worried her family in Dagestan especially, as they viewed black as the uniform of the Wahhabi resistance movement that had recently crossed the border. Zubeidat

“There is a gap with information sharing,” Davis said.