„Ich habe das getan!“ – Anklage gegen Boston-Attentäter

von Florian Flade

Die US-Staatsanwaltschaft hat Anklage gegen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, einen der Bombenleger von Boston, erhoben. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Tamerlan einen Terroranschlag verübt und drei Menschen getötet zu haben. Der 19-jährige Student, der derzeit in einem Krankenhaus aufgrund von Schussverletzungen behandelt wird, muss sich nun bald vor einem US-Gericht verantworten. Sein älterer Bruder wurde in der vergangenen Woche bei einem Polizeieinsatz getötet.

Lange war gerätselt worden, ob sich der überlebende Terrorverdächtige als „feindlicher Kämpfer“ sogar von einem US-Militärgericht verurteilt wird. Nun steht fest: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ist US-Staatsbürger. Geboren in Kirgisien als Sohn tschetschenischer Einwanderer, kam er am 12.April 2002 in die USA und wurde später eingebürgert. Er ist daher ein Fall für ein Zivilgericht.

Die Anklageschrift der Staatsanwaltschaft Massachusetts liegt „Welt Online“ vor. Sie dokumentiert aus Sicht der Bundespolizei FBI die spektakuläre Jagd nach den Bombenlegern von Boston und liefert neue Details.

„Am 15.April 2013 gegen 14:49, als der Marathon noch in vollem Gange war, ereigneten sich zwei Explosionen auf der Nordseite der Bolyston Street nahe dem Zielgeraden des Marathons“, heißt es in der Anklageschrift gegen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. „Jede Explosion tötete mindestens eine Person, verletzte, verbrannte und verwundete unzählige andere (…) Ingesamt wurden drei Personen getötet und über zweihundert weitere verletzt.“

Die Tsarnaev-Brüder sollen die beiden Bomben – bestehend aus Dampfkochtöpfen, gefüllt mit Schießpulver, einem Zünder und hunderten Eisenkugeln und Nägeln – am Straßenrand platziert haben. Die Sprengsätze waren so präpariert, dass möglichst viele Menschen durch die Explosion verletzt werden.

Am Nachmittag des vergangenen Donnerstages, dem 18.April, hatte die US-Bundespolizei FBI erstmals Fahndungsfotos von Dzkhokar und Tamerlan Tsarnaev veröffentlicht. Es handelte sich dabei um Aufnahmen von Überwachungskameras, die die Brüder vor und nach den Bomben-Explosionen während des Bostoner Marathons zeigen. Die Identität der Bombenleger war zu diesem Zeitpunkt allerdings noch unklar. Die Ermittler nannten sich nur „Bombenleger 1“ und „Bombenleger 2“. Das FBI bat die Bevölkerung um Mithilfe bei der Jagd nach den Attentätern.

Laut Staatsanwaltschaft entführten die Tsarnaev-Brüder nur wenige Stunden nach Veröffentlichung der Videoaufnahmen ein fremdes Auto in der Stadt Cambridge bei Boston. Der Autobesitzer, der kurzfristig als Geisel genommen wurde, erzählte dem FBI später, was an jenem Abend geschah.

„Das Opfer erzählte, dass sich ein Mann näherte und auf der Beifahrer-Seite gegen die Scheibe klopfte“, heißt es in der Anklageschrift. Als der Autofahrer das Fenster öffnete, griff der Unbekannte ins Wageninnere, öffnete die Tür und sprang in das Fahrzeug.

Der Mann hielt dem Autofahrer eine Pistole vor das Gesicht. „Hast du von den Boston Anschlägen gehört?“, fragte der Bewaffnete. „Ich habe das getan“. Dann habe der Mann das Magazin aus der Pistole gezogen und ihm gezeigt, dass sich darin eine Patrone befand, berichtete der Autofahrer später der Polizei. Dann schob er das Magazin wieder in die Waffe. „Ich meine es ernst“, soll er anschließend gesagt haben.

Der Autofahrer sei schließlich gezwungen worden loszufahren und an einem anderen Ort einen zweiten Mann abzuholen. Dieser warf mehrere Gegenstände – Rohrbomben wie sich später herausstellte – in den Kofferraum des Wagens und nahm auf der Rückbank des entführten Autos Platz. Beide Männer, so erzählte der Autofahrer, hätten sich in einer ausländischen Sprache unterhalten.

Anschließend sei der Autobesitzer gezwungen worden, auf den Beifahrersitz zu rutschen. Der Mann mit der Pistole habe das Steuer des Wagens übernommen. Ihrem Opfer hätten die Tsarnaev-Brüder anschließend 45 US-Dollar abgenommen, sowie ihn zur Herausgabe seiner Kreditkarte und des Passwortes gezwungen. An einem Geldautomaten versuchten sich damit Bargeld abzuheben. Erst als die Entführer an einer Tankstelle aus dem Auto stiegen, gelang es dem Fahrer zu entkommen.

In Watertown, unweit von Boston, lokalisierte die Polizei kurze Zeit später das entführte Auto. „Als die Männer die Dexter Straße in Watertown hinunterfuhren, warfen sie mindestens zwei Improvisierte Sprengsätze aus dem Auto“, heißt es in der Anklageschrift. Daraufhin kam es zum Schusswechsel zwischen den Tsarnaevs und der angerückten Polizei. „Einer der Männer wurde schwer verletzt und blieb vor Ort“. Es war der ältere Bruder Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Mit schweren Schussverletzungen wurde er ins „Beth Israel“-Krankenhaus gebracht, wo er für tot erklärt wurde. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gelang es im Auto zu fliehen.

Das verlassene Fahrzeug, einen Honda Civic, fand das FBI später verlassen vor. Im Wagen lag ein intakter Sprengsatz. Zwei weitere Bomben fand die Polizei am Ort des Schusswechsels.

Erst am Freitagabend, nach stundenlanger Belagerung der Kleinstadt Watertown und einer Ausgangssperre für die Einwohner, gelang es der Polizei von Massachusetts den flüchtigen Bombenleger Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ausfindig zu machen. „Polizeiermittlungen ergaben, dass sich eine Person in einem abgedeckten Boot in der Franklin Street 67 in Watertown befand“, heißt es dazu in der Anklageschrift.

Als Dzhokhar Tsarnaev schließlich nach tagelanger Jagd aus dem Motorboot gezogen wurde, in dem er sich versteckt hatte, fand die Polizei bei ihm einen Ausweis der „University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth“ und Kreditkarten. „Alles wies ihn als Dzhokhar Tsarnaev aus“, notieren die FBI-Beamten. „Er hatte offensichtliche Verletzungen, darunter augenscheinlich Schussverletzungen am Kopf, Nacken, Armen und an der Hand.“

Zwei Tage nach der Festnahme des Bostoner Bombenlegers durchsuchten FBI-Beamte die Studentenwohnung des mutmaßlichen Islamisten an der „University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth“. Einen großen Feuerwerkskörper und Eisenkugeln entdeckten die Ermittler dort, sowie eine schwarze Jacke und „einen weißen Hut der genauso aussieht wie jener, der Bombenleger beim Boston Marathon am 15.April trug“.

„Make Jihad Easy For Me“ – Saudi Student of Texas University Planned Terror Attack in US

by Florian Flade

A Saudi student living in Texas is accused of plotting a terrorist attack inside the United States. His apparent target list included former President George W.Bush, US-Soldiers who have served in Abu Ghraib and Dallas Night Clubs. On his blog the Saudi Chemistry student left some interesting entries, drawing the path to radicalization of just the latest of America´s al-Qaida inspired „Lone Wolves of Terror“.

From the Online traces Khalid Ali-M al-Dawsari (or Khalid Alim al-Dosari), a 21 year-old Saudi national and student of Chemical Engineering, left behind, he does not seem to fit into the common profile of a Jihadi Terrorist. On his blog, Khalid wrote about life, about girls he admired, about poetry and how he felt starting a major-student´s life in America. Then, out of the sudden al-Dawsari was talking about Jihad and martyrdom.

The FBI investigated the Saudi student and arrested Khalid al-Dawsari yesterday on charges of terrorism. He is now accused of plotting a attack with a weapon of mass destruction inside the United States. Counter-terrorism officials believe al-Dawsari planned on producing explosives with obtained chemicals and then targeting places inside the US – possibly former President George W. Bush in his Dallas residence.

On his blog, Khalid al-Dawsari, who will appear in court tomorrow, left some interesting traces about his life in the US, providing the reader with his thoughts about Americans and their way of life.

Khalid Alim Al-Dawsari came into the United States in September 2008 and joined a English-Language Program for second language students in October 2008. By August 2009 he finished the program and by then had gained enough language skills to enlist into Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock, Texas. He started his major studies in Chemical Engineering.

Soon after his arrival in the US, in December 2008, Khalid al-Dawsari had started a blog, a diary were he posted poetry and events that happened in his life. His first blog post though, was not about his move to the US or his studies at Lubbock TTU, but about a woman – a Italian actress and model named Anna Valle.

„Anna if there is just one great moon you will be my stars and rare moons. Anna, you are my universe which is the perfection with out human beings“, al-Dawsari wrote. The next day, the Saudi student wrote about a girl he had met in Texas. „My first time I saw her in real life was in a football game between my university Vanderbilt and University of Tennessee“, the blog entry reads, „I saw her there and she was the seats that under mine. She was gorgeous. She saw me in moments again and again. She looked at me repeatedly in few moments. It was something I will never forget…I just want her. I want her.“

During May 2009, when al-Dawsari was learning English in Nashville, Tennessee, he wrote about his dreams of becoming a Google employee. „This is an opportunity to be in the US to achieve my dream that I am working very hard and I am doing my best to catch it, that dream is mainly and simply to be an employee in google which is not impossible to achieve even if it is hard but it is still not impossible because there is nothing impossible for me and I can do it, yeah I can be an employee in google.“

While in the English-program, the Saudi student got to know other Arabic-speakers. Al-Dawsaris language partner though – was a woman named Sarah. In May 2009, al-Dawsari and the others made an academic trip to Siloam Springs in Arkansas. „I think Siloam reflects the volunteering which is a huge part of the American culture that I totally respect and admire“, al-Dawsari wrote on his blog about the trip, „In addition, the volunteers weren’t all Christians, white, …etc specifically they weren’t belong to one race or religion.“

Al-Dawsari liked to watch American movies. For him, they kind of reflected the American lifestyle. „I think this movie illustrate some of the American culture in the way that people pursue their happiness via money but that doesn’t mean all Americans would commit crimes for either money or happiness“, he wrote about a movie he saw.

In summer 2009, Khalid al-Dawsari thought about buying a car in the US. He did not know how to find a proper used car. Back in Saudi-Arabia he had watched some US shows about cars, especially the infamous „Pimp my ride“ and now blogged about the things he observed in the US – „I think cars for Americans are like a wife, so the wife has to be beautiful, good family, pricy and precious.“ Finally on September 19 2009, al-Dawsari bought a car, a Hyundai Sonata 2006 and registered it on October 5 2009.

The Saudi chemistry student obviously traveled back to the Saudi Kingdom in July 2009 for a short visit, sending his language-training partner Sarah a warm greeting from his Arabian homeland. In mid-August 2009, Khalid al-Dawsari arrived in Lubbock, Texas, were he became a student of Texas Tech University. „I arrived in Lubbock, TX one week ago“, al-Dawsari wrote on his blog, „Texas Tech University is very nice one and I like it. They have a good football team, so probably I will enjoy the city and the life here.“ Apparently this is the housing complex al-Dawsari lived in.

For months, al-Dawsari´s blog had no new posts. Then, on March 11, the Saudi student posted a chilling all-Arabic message – „You who created mankind and who is knowledgeable of what is in the womb, grant me martyrdom for Your sake and make Jihad easy for me (…) make me reside in the high heaven eternally forever.“ A month later, on April 8, Khalid al-Dawsari again posted a Arabic entry on his blog. „If this is the West´s version of freedom, and their peace policy, we have our own policies in freedom and it is war until the infidels (…) leave defeated.“

There is no hint given on why al-Dawsari´s blog postings suddenly turned into political and religious messages of hate and Jihad. What had influenced the then 20 year-old Saudi-Arab from September 2009 to March 2010 remains unknown.

In the following months the Saudi citizen Khalid al-Dawsari began research on the internet on how to build explosive devices, instructions on how to create a bomb detonator out of a mobile phone and how to produce explosives. Al-Dawsari sent several e-mails to his own account, containing documents and information on the chemicals necessary to manufacture a bomb. „EXPLO6“, he named one of the e-mails, „In the Name of Allah The Beneficent The Merciful. Nitro is more powerful than T.N.T.“.

Al-Dawsari also started to purchase tools via Amazon.com. On December 12 2010 he ordered a Weller SP23LK Marksman, 25 Watt soldering iron kit. A string of Miniature Christmas lights was then purchased also via Amazon on December 30 2010. When al-Dawsari´s apartment in Lubbock was searched by the FBI on February 16 2011, they found the lights he had ordered last year. The terror suspect also bought a 3,2 million volt stun gun, a battery tester ,wiring, a alarm clock and a precision screwdriver and large quantities of Chemistry Labratory equipment.

When the FBI raided al-Dawsari´s apartment a few days ago, they found several handwritten notes and a journal with some Arabic entries, indicating he planned to carry out a terrorist attack inside the United States for years. The events of 9/11 and the lectures of Osama Bin Laden apparently inspired the young Saudi student. He applied for a scholarship for America, al-Dawsari wrote, so the „Traitor of the Two Holy Places“ (King of Saudi-Arabia) would finance his trip. „Financial scholarship will help tremendously in providing me with the support I need for Jihad“, the student states, „And now after mastering the English language, learning how to build explosives and continuous planning to target infidel Americans, it is time for Jihad“.

On July 22 2010, al-Dawsari wrote in his diary, he wished to create his own al-Qaida branch, naming it „Jamaat Jund al-Islam“. In September 2010 he claimed he was doing his best in his effort to create a „intelligent bomb“. By then al-Dawsari had already picked several possible targets for his attack in the US.

„NICE TARGETS 01“, the Saudi named his e-mail listing numerous targets like 12 dams and reservoirs in California and Colorado. On September 22 2010, he wrote a document containing the home adresses of three American soldiers who had previously served in the U.S. military in Iraq and were stationed in Abu Ghraib Prison. Among other targets selected by al-Dawsari was a Nuclear Power Plant as well as New York City locations.

In the Texan City of Dallas, Khalid al-Dawsari had picked a high-value target – the address of a property owned by former US-President George W. Bush, a location the Saudi student called the „Tyrant´s house“.

On Feb. 1 2011, a chemical supplier reported to the FBI a suspicious attempted purchase of concentrated phenol by a man identifying himself as Khalid Aldawsari. According to the affidavit, phenol is a toxic chemical with legitimate uses, but can also be used to make the explosive trinitrophenol, also known as T.N.P., or picric acid.

Apparently al-Dawsari had already thought about how to hide and conceal the bomb he was about to build. On the Internet he searched for pictures of babies and realistic looking infant dolls. Just a few days ago, on February 19 2011, the Chemistry student searched for „can u take a backpack to nightclub“, „bakcpack“, „dallas night clubs“ and „party in dalls“ on Google.

This search triggered the FBI to step in and arrest the 21 year-old Saudi national. Today he was officially charged with preparing a terrorist attack in the United States.

Again it seems, America escaped a Jihadi terrorist attack by one of the al-Qaida inspired „lone wolves“, increasingly threatening the security of the United States.

Canadian Resident Organized Al-Qaida Suicide Bombings?

by Florian Flade

Al-Qaida in Iraq Propaganda – „Martyrdom-Lovers“

Abu Muhammad, a policeman in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul explained to the news media what he had witnessed in the morning of April 10th 2009 when he was on duty in the southern part of the city. The policeman saw a truck filled with about a ton of explosives hidden under grain driving right behind two US Humvees on the street leading to Mosul´s police headquarters right next to U.S. Military’s Forward Operating Base Marez.
The American vehicles entered the compound and stopped. The next moment the truck driver rammed his vehicle through a metal barrier and slammed into a sandbagged wall. As Iraqi guards shot at the truck, the driver detonated the explosives next to the Humvees about 50 yards from the gate.

Five US soldiers died in the blast that left a 60-foot crater in the ground and destroyed the two US vehicles in the convoy. „There was more than 1,000 kg of explosives in the truck, which leveled three buildings“, an Iraqi police official said. Staff Sergeant Gary L. Woods, 24, of Lebanon Junction, Kentucky; Sergeant First Class Bryan E. Hall, 32, of Elk Grove, California; Sergeant Edward W. Forrest Jr., 25, of St. Louis; Corporal Jason G. Pautsch, 20, of Davenport, Iowa; and Army Private First Class Bryce E. Gaultier, 22, from Cyprus, California – all lost their lives in the suicide bombing that is said to have initially targeted the Iraqi police headquarter of Mosul.

The next day one of the leaders of the terror cell that orchestrated the deadliest attack on US troops since March 10th 2008, chatted over the internet with a man living in Canada. „Did you hear about the huge incident yesterday? Is it known?“, the Canadian resident asked the Iraq-based terrorist. „Yes“, responded the member of the Iraqi terror network. „He was one of the Tunisian brothers“, explained the man in Canada whose name is Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa (alias „Tahir Sharif Sayfildin“)

The 38 year-old resident of Canada obviously was proud of the action of the Tunisian suicide bomber. He had reason to be proud because he allegedly was the one who sent a group of Tunisian jihadis into battle in Iraq. Isa is suspected of being a member of the terror network that conducted the deadly bombing. He was arrested yesterday by Canadian authorities in Edmonton on charges filed by U.S. officials. Prior to the arrest there had been a cooperation of U.S., Canadian and Tunisian authorities to gain information about the terror suspect´s involvement with the Iraqi terror group.

In a complaint filed on January 14th by prosecutors in New York City, Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa is charged with providing support to a Iraqi bases terror network: „The defendant is charged in connection with his support for a multinational terrorist network that conducted multiple suicide bombings in Iraq and that is responsible for the deaths of five American soldiers.“ The defendant Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa is also suspected of being involved in another suicide bombing on March 31th 2009. That day two Tunisian militants who traveled to Iraq via Libya and Syria in October 2008 with the bomber that killed the five US soldiers in the April´09 Mosul bombing, attacked a police station and killed seven Iraqis.
„A day or two after the bombing, the brother of one of the bombers received an anonymous phone call in which the caller repeated three times that the bomber had “been martyred two days ago in combat with the Americans in Mosul“, the U.S. complaint of the Department of Justice reads.

Canadian Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa allegedly recruited eight Tunisians via the internet and organized the two groups´ travels to Iraq where they joined al-Qaida in Iraq. In March 2009 he tried to recruit a second group of Tunisian jihadis according to the complaint. „Try to delete everything…off your computer.Don’t leave one character of information or anything behind…Don’t leave any trace…Do not forget to keep reading Qur’an and repeat the famous prayers on the way until you meet with God“, Muhammad Isa told one of the Tunisians in online communications. Upon his departure from Tunisia the militant was arrested by Tunisian authorities.

„There is no more pressing duty after the declaration of faith than fighting the enemy“, the Canadian man told his motives to another person in January 2010, „Fighting comes before the other four pillars of faith…Islam came for the good of humanity. So if someone doesn’t like good, we fight them, like those dog Americans.“ The same month Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa talked to the leader of a Iraqi al-Qaida cell about his plans to come to Iraq and take up arms against US troops. He is „1,000,000 percent“ committed to the cause of Jihad in Iraq, Isa explained the Iraqi terrorist leader. „Even if I can’t work over there, I can work here“, he stated.

According to the complaint which includes information received by wiretapping, in November 2009 Isa told his mother his greatest wish was to die a martyr. On May 28th 2010 he told his sister living in Iraq she should carry out a „Go learn about weapons and go attack the police and Americans“, he said, „Let it be that you die.“

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