2 EXPLOSIONS AT BOSTON MARATHON - AT LEAST 6 HURT

bb1 wrote:I don't see Dzh. getting the death penalty, LL, if he co-operates with the authorities - not to mention blaming the dead dude.

It might be an idea for their mother to stop mouthing off, though, I doubt if she is helping by ranting about Icke-ish conspiracies. Not to mention her sudden enthusiasm to play the role of a devout Muslim, 'forgetting' about her shoplifting conviction.

bb1 wrote:Don't put your blood pressure up by reading the disgusting drivel from Icke's conspiraloons, LL - red paint is NOTHING in comparison to what they've been inventing.

I suspect Mama Bomber has been reading whatever is the Russian equivalent; there's bound to be one, so Putin can keep all the loonies in one place.

Cemeteries refuse to bury Boston bombing suspect

10:03 AM, May 6, 2013 |

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died from "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities" and blunt trauma to his head and torso, an autopsy revealed. / Julia Malakie, AP

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A funeral director trying to find a cemetery to take the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is going next to the city where Tsarnaev lived, but will run into another obstacle: It doesn't want him.

The dilemma over where to bury the 26-year-old suspect comes as a friend of his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, heads to court Monday in Boston for a bail hearing on charges that he lied to federal investigators after the April 15 bombings.

Funeral director Peter Stefan said he hasn't been able to find a cemetery in Massachusetts willing to take Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body. He said he plans to ask the city of Cambridge, where Tsarnaev lived, to provide a burial plot, and if Cambridge turns him down, he will seek help from state officials.

The uncle of Tamerlan Tsarnaev arrived in Massachusetts over the weekend to arrange for his nephew's burial. Ruslan Tsarni and three of his friends planned to wash and shroud his nephew's body according to Muslim tradition. Tsarnaev died after a gunbattle with police April 19.

Tsarni, of Maryland, said he understands that "no one wants to associate their names with such evil events."

Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy said in a statement Sunday there has been no formal application for a burial permit or purchase of a cemetery plot. He said he is urging Tsarnaev's family and Stefan not to request a burial permit for the city-owned Cambridge Cemetery.

Healy said the city "would be adversely impacted by the turmoil, protests, and widespread media presence at such an interment." He said the families who have loved ones interred at the cemetery also deserve to have their deceased family members rest in peace.

Healey said other federal agencies should take the lead in the burial.

Stefan did not immediately return a call Sunday night seeking comment on Healy's statement.

Tsarni told reporters that he is arranging for Tsarnaev's burial because religion and tradition call for his nephew to be buried. He would like him buried in Massachusetts because he's lived in the state for the last decade, the uncle said.

"I'm dealing with logistics. A dead person must be buried," he said.

He said he was grateful to Stefan for agreeing to arrange the burial and to his friends for accompanying him to Massachusetts to aid with the funeral.

"These are my friends who feel for me," he said.

Tsarnaev, who had appeared in surveillance photos wearing a black cap and was identified as Suspect No. 1, died days after the April 15 bombings at the marathon finish line, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. His 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, was captured.

Stefan said he has received calls from people criticizing him and calling him "un-American" for being willing to handle Tamerlan Tsarnaev's funeral.

"We take an oath to do this. Can I pick and choose? No. Can I separate the sins from the sinners? No," he said. "We are burying a dead body. That's what we do."

A half dozen protesters gathered outside the funeral home Sunday holding signs and American flags and chanting "USA!" One sign read: "Do not bury him on U.S. soil." Several people drove by the funeral home earlier and yelled, including one man who shouted, "Throw him off a boat like Osama bin Laden!" The al-Qaeda leader was buried at sea after Navy SEALs killed him in a raid on his compound in Pakistan.

The state medical examiner ruled that Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso. Police have said Dzhokhar ran over his brother in a chaotic getaway. Stefan said Sunday that the family won't request that an independent medical examiner perform a second autopsy, but representatives from the family's legal team might photograph Tsarnaev's body before it's washed.

Tsarni has denounced the acts his nephews are accused of committing and has said they brought shame to the family and the entire Chechen community. The brothers are ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago with their parents. Both parents returned to Dagestan in southern Russia last year.

Tsarni said Sunday that he hopes to eventually see Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is in a prison hospital and faces a potential death sentence if convicted of the terrorism plot.

"This is another person left all to himself," he said.

Also on Sunday, the FBI conducted a court-authorized search in Cambridge as part of its ongoing investigation into the bombings, said Jason Pack, a supervisory special agent in the FBI's press office. He declined to elaborate further.