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On social media, terror suspects left few signs of extremism
COLLIN BINKLEY He taunted the agents
again later that day, after
PHILIP MARCELO he said an FBI agent had
asked a neighbor about
Associated Press him.
“They are persistent but
BOSTON (AP) — Usaama guess what, they got noth-
ing on me. Keep on com-
Rahim liked an Islamic ing, you stupid fools and I’ll
sue the crap out of you for
State page on Facebook harassment,” he wrote.
The task force intensified
but also spoke out against its surveillance of Rahim to
an around-the-clock detail
the kind of violence Islamic at least seven days before
this week’s fatal confronta-
State extremists are fo- tion, after Rahim bought
three military-style knives
menting across the Middle on Amazon.com. Agents
listening to his phone calls
East. also heard his nephew, Da-
vid Wright, say something
In his public postings, the they interpreted as a ref-
erence to beheading, ac-
knife-wielding 26-year- cording to an FBI affidavit.
Police Commissioner Wil-
old, who was fatally shot liam Evans said officers de-
cided to take Rahim down
by members of Boston’s after he was overheard
saying, “I’m just going to,
Joint Terrorism Task Force ah, go after them, those
boys in blue.”q
on Tuesday, appeared to
be a conservative Mus-
lim, frowning on women
plucking their eyebrows
and musing on the proper Ibrahim Rahim, second from right, brother of shooting victim Usaama Rahim, reacts with a relative
length for men’s robes. during a news conference in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood in the area where Rahim was shot
His decision to like the Is- to death.
lamic State in Iraq page (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
concerns some moder- many supporters of armed Rahim, who was buried in a ing to talk about “allega-
ate Muslim leaders who extremist groups espouse private ceremony in Boston tions.”
reviewed his social media on social media. on Friday, had known he “If you let them get close,
postings with The Associ- Killing people is anti-Islamic, was being watched by the trust me, they’ll have you
ated Press, but they note Rahim wrote, arguing a key FBI: He posted about that, making statements about
he posted no bloody pic- tenet of the faith is “we do too, back in 2012, writing things that could get you
tures and made none of not fight evil with that which that he had hung up on an jail-time,” he wrote. “Try
the violent calls to arms causes a greater evil.” FBI agent who called want- again, monkey-boys.”
2 more friends of Boston Bomber sentenced to prison
DENISE LAVOIE years for impeding the in- year sentence for lying to finement. cerating him.”
AP Legal Affairs Writer vestigation into the attack the FBI about being in Tsar- The sentence ultimately The bombings on April 15,
BOSTON (AP) — Two col- while authorities frantically naev’s dorm room days af- given to Phillipos was the 2013, killed three people
lege friends of marathon searched for the bombers. ter the bombings. most lenient penalty im- and injured more than 260.
bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev He was convicted of con- The judge said Phillipos was posed on the three friends Tsarnaev is awaiting for-
were sentenced Friday to spiracy and obstruction of to blame for a “substantial who were charged. mal sentencing after a jury
prison after one tearfully justice for agreeing with diversion” of law enforce- Former Gov. Michael Duka- condemned him to die for
apologized to the residents another friend to remove ment resources. kis, a friend of Phillipos’ fam- committing the attack with
of Boston for impeding the Tsarnaev’s backpack from “There’s a price to be paid ily and the 1988 Democrat- his now-dead older broth-
investigation and the other his dorm room at the Uni- for the failure of responsibil- ic presidential nominee, er, Tamerlan.
had a former Massachu- versity of Massachusetts- ity,” Judge Douglas Wood- wrote a letter of support for Tazhayakov and two other
setts governor write a letter Dartmouth. The backpack lock said. him and even testified dur- men went to Tsarnaev’s
on his behalf in the hope contained fireworks that Prosecutors had asked for ing his trial. dorm room three days after
of getting a lighter punish- had been emptied of their a sentence of a little more In his letter to the judge, Du- the bombings, hours after
ment. explosive powder. than five years in prison. kakis wrote that he “can’t the FBI released photos of
Azamat Tazhayakov, 21, Later on Friday, Robel Phil- Phillipos’ lawyers had asked understand why justice the Tsarnaev brothers as
was sentenced to 3 1/2 lipos was handed a three- for two years of home con- would be served by incar- suspects in the bombings.q
