Dias Kadyrbayev

As one of the 72 virgins?

Via Boston Herald

Federal prosecutors said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev emailed his mother in the hours before the April 18 killing of MIT police officer Sean Collier and the predawn shootout in Watertown, saying he would see her in this life or the next one.

“He told her he loved her and ended with, ‘Inshallah (i.e. God willing) if I don’t see you in this life I will see you in the akhira (i.e. afterlife),’ ” federal prosecutors stated.

The statement is part of the government’s arguments against a motion by Tsarnaev’s defense lawyers who want evidence seized at the Tsarnaev family’s Cambridge home tossed because he had an expectation to privacy.

The government fought back in a filing last night saying Tsarnaev did not live in Cambridge, but at his dorm at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been served a “notice to vacate” the previous November. And, prosecutors say, when he sent his mother the email, “he did not expect to return alive, and thus abandoned his expectation of privacy.”

Meanwhile, prosecutors revealed in a hearing yesterday, a college buddy of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s identified the accused marathon bomber by name to a friend half a world away on a Russian social media site as the manhunt was still unfolding.

But Dias Kadyrbayev apparently never picked up the phone to call 911, prosecutors said.

Kadyrbayev’s nearly three hours on the witness stand in U.S. District Court marked the first time the public has heard directly from any of the five young men now charged in connection with the April 15, 2013, terrorist attack that killed three marathon spectators and injured more than 260 others.

Kadyrbayev, 20, goes on trial Sept. 8 on charges he conspired to obstruct a terrorism investigation by tossing a backpack, laptop and fireworks that could link Tsarnaev to the crime. His lawyers want to suppress his statements, saying he did not cooperate with law enforcement willingly.

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