Via ABC News:
U.S. counter-terrorism officials are attempting to track down a female friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber after she traveled to Chechnya last year and is believed to have since posted “alarming” jihadi imagery online, officials told ABC News.
Officials are concerned that Heda Umarova, 23, may have been radicalized to Islamist violence — allegedly just like her friend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the April 15 bombings, and his brother Tamerlan, who was killed in a police shootout — and could pose a threat to Americans overseas because her U.S. passport allows easy foreign travel.
Umarova left Boston with her family in July with a round-trip ticket to visit relatives in their native Chechnya, but she failed to return to Massachusetts with her parents at the end of August. Her family told federal authorities and ABC News she stayed behind to get married after she met a man there during Ramadan.
We broke the Tsarnaev connection with Junes Umarov, the brother of Heda, who was his compatriot in “poppen fireworks” to “do some damage” as revealed in Tsarnaev’s tweets. Junes Umarov used to have the Twitter account “@xxjungaxx”.
On some Harry potter shit pic.twitter.com/4ASDCY9l
— Jahar (@J_tsar) January 10, 2013
Investigators in the Boston bombing case found indication that the powder from fireworks had been emptied out of spent fireworks and may have been used in the pressure cooker bombs. Three of Tsarnaev’s other friends were investigated for hiding his backpack with spent fireworks in it.
HT th3j35t3r