据校友介绍，Katherine Russell是一名地道的美国女孩，自从和Tamerlan在一起后，她完全变了一个人，被她的“极端主义者”丈夫洗脑。她21岁时放弃自己的学业，生下女儿。
据悉，Russell高中时的座右铭是“停止抱怨，行动起来”，梦想能上大学并加入美国和平队。她还曾是校舞蹈队和艺术俱乐部的成员，曾获得“银钥匙”奖。她的同窗曾回忆说：“她父母都是好人，姐妹也是很好的女孩。但是自从遇到Tamerlan，一切都变了。”
据称，Russell在大学就读时，遇到了从俄罗斯北高加索地区来美国的Tamerlan，Tamerlan当时是一名很有前途的拳击手和运动员，Russell迅速被其征服。 21岁时，她与Tamerlan成婚，并辍学生下他们的女儿。她也皈依了伊斯兰教，开始戴头巾，整个人也发生了翻天覆地的变化，以至于她的朋友们都不能理解。
据悉，两人婚后关系一直亲密，虽然2009年时，Tamerlan曾因为对Russell家暴而被逮捕。
Russell日前带着3岁的女儿从罗德岛的父母家返回剑桥的家里，那是她和已故丈夫的家。她此次返家主要是取一些东西，以及带走家里的宠物猫。
Russell在接受警方询问时表示，Tamerlan是一个“很好的人”。
Katherine Russell, the widow of Boston bomb suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was 'an all-American girl who was brainwashed' by her extremist husband according to one schoolfriend.
Today MailOnline has gained the first glimpse and pictures of the early life of the woman who, according to those who knew her best, was 'totally transformed' by Tsarnaev.
At high school her personal motto was 'Do something about it or stop complaining'. She dreamed of going to college and joining the Peace Corps.
She urged her friends to 'lighten up and enjoy the small things,' in life.
Transformed: Katherine Russell, the American wife of marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is pictured left（上图） in her school book and, right（下图）, leaving the house she shared with her husband in Cambridge
Instead she met Tsarneav, 26, a disenfranchised man who came to America from his troubled homeland of Chechnya who rapidly had her in his thrall.
By the time she was 21 she had married him and borne his child, Zahara, now three. She had converted to Islam, hidden her tumble of chestnut hair beneath the hijab and undergone a change so profound that today few friends profess to truly understand it.
Yesterday Katherine, who has been staying at her parents’ home in Rhode Island, returned to the Cambridge, Massachusetts home which she shared with her late husband.
Dressed in a leopard print hijab she darted into the white shingle house to collect some belongings and her pet cat while her daughter waited in the car.
Today she was back home, accompanied by armed federal agents who first interviewed Katherine and her family on Friday.
What did she know? Katherine's proximity to both brothers makes her a key witness - witting or otherwise. A team of federal agents today delivered a package to her home after her mother reluctantly answered the door
Great future: Her friends say she dreamed of going to the Peace Corps - before she met Tsarnaev
Shortly before 6pm on Sunday three law enforcement agents – two men, one woman - all wearing dark sunglasses delivered a package to the Russell's family home.
Katherine's mother Judith was initially reluctant to answer the front door, opening it fully only after requesting that the officers, thought to be Federal Agents, showed their credentials.
At around 7.30 the Federal agents returned to the Russell family home as there was a marked increase in law enforcement activity in this quiet suburban neighborhood.
MailOnline has learned that the family's attorney entered by a back door as several officers were seen going into the family home.
The agents stayed for just over an hour. Moments after they left, the family's attorney Amato DeLuca did likewise.
Mr DeLuca said he could not discuss any detail of what had passed between his client and the agents, saying only that there were ‘talks.’
He said ‘We’re doing our best to deal with a very difficult situation. The family’s going through a lot. That’s the best I can do at the moment.’
Through the years: She had a comfortable upbringing as the eldest daughter of a doctor and a nurse
Involved: Russell, circled, is pictured with her high school dance team, third from right on the back row
Their presence raises the question how much did Katherine know about her late husband's activities and links?
Katherine's awareness of her then husband's movements, thoughts and plans is under intense scrutiny as her relation to Tsaraev and her proximity to both brothers makes her a key witness - witting or otherwise.
After all she was living with Tsarnaev when he travelled to Makhachkala in 2011 – a trip now attracting the interest of investigators trying to establish whether he met with Gaczhimurad Dolgatov at that time. Dolgatov was a Dagestani jihadist who died in 2012 after a vicious stand-off with Russian security services.
As it has already been revealed, Tsarnaev was on the FBI's radar during that time as they were asked to look into his potential links to extremist groups.
None who knew her as a child could have dreamed that this would be the face she would one day present to the world, nor that her life and those of so many Bostonians would be so violently caught up with two brothers from Chechnya and a cause as unclear as it was brutal.
Out: She exits a car with her father Warren Russell, left, as they arrive at the family home in Rhode Island
Changed: Her school friends have described how she transformed after meeting Tamerlan Tsarnaev
In hiding: The Russell family home in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, where Katherine is staying
Support: A man, believed to be Warren Russell, father of Katherine Russell, smiles at the media
Family: After pulling into her driveway, Judith Russell, Katherine's mother, spoke briefly with the media
As a girl growing up in Rhode Island Katherine was known to her friends as Katie. One school friend who asked not to be named recalled: ‘I saw her like a few months ago and she was just totally transformed. She was not the same person at all.’
Another agreed: ‘She was just this All-American girl who was brainwashed by her super-religious husband. Nobody understands what happened to her.
‘None of us would have dreamed that she would marry so young or drop out of college and have a baby or convert or be part of any of what’s happened.’
She said, ‘She’s just not the same person at all.’
It would be hard to imagine a childhood more rooted in America’s pilgrim heritage than Katherine’s. It is in there in the names of the towns – Plymouth, Dorset, Greenwich – where many of her friends still live and writ large in the wholesome values of the one-time Honors student’s home life.
'She was this All-American girl who was brainwashed by her super-religious husband. Nobody understands what happened'
The eldest of three daughters, to emergency physician Dr Warren Russell and nurse Judith, hers is a background steeped in the values of family and education.
She attended Daisyville Middle School, North Kingstown. As a sixth grader she is pictured smiling from the pages of the 2001-2002 yearbook dedicated to The North Kingstown Police and Fire Departments in the wake of 9/11. – a date, the opening dedication reads, ‘forever in our minds.’
A section of the book is titled, ‘Enduring Freedom,’ as the school, along with the rest of the nation, refused to be cowed by the acts of terror that hit the homeland that day.
In 2004 Katherine progressed to North Kingstown High School.
She took part gamely in the school’s Mismatch/Bad Hair Day; she dressed up for Hawaiian day though the occasion fell in a chilly October.
She was a member of the Dance Team and the Art Club. In 11th grade she was awarded a Silver Key for a rather odd image of a cat, lashing out at a mouse in a ballet shoe. Her favorite food was Pad Thai.
She competed with her peers in Class Color Day that ended with a Pep Rally in which seas of the school colors, green, blue, red, black and gold filled the stands at the playing field.
One classmate who remembers Katherine from those early days said: ‘The thing that’s so shocking is that there was nothing at all that made Katherine different.
‘Her parents are nice people, her sisters are great girls. But she met this guy, I guess, and everything changed.’
Katherine was a student at Sussex University, Boston, when she met Tsaraev, then a promising boxer and athlete.
It was during that time that she converted and her youthful priorities appear to have changed as she left in 2010 without graduating.
By then her relationship with Tsaraev was intense. Not even his arrest for violently assaulting her in 2009 could change that.
According to Cambridge City Police Department reports of the incident which took place in July at the Massachusetts home she once shared with Tsaraev, when interviewed she described Tsaraev as ‘a very nice man.’
Certainly he was a man whose influence on Katherine's life would prove profound.
There is only one odd and unsettling inclusion in her own entry in her graduation High School Yearbook.
Asked to provide a quotation she settled on one that would surely chime with the extremist views of her late husband.
‘Don’t take anything for granted,’ she advises, before quoting a line from David Bowie's 'Quicksand': ‘Don’t believe in yourself, don’t deceive with belief,’ the baffling lines run. ‘Knowledge comes from death’s release.’
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据报道，美国联邦调查局(FBI)认为，波士顿爆炸案嫌疑人察尔纳伊夫兄弟曾接受恐怖主义团伙的培训，目前警方已经对这个团伙展开搜捕。
美国司法部门消息人士说：“我们没有任何疑问，他们不是单独行动的。两枚炸弹的构造非常复杂，而且不是人们可以通过谷歌搜索到的东西。有人向察尔纳伊夫兄弟教授了这些知识，现在我们的任务是找到他们。”
FBI工作人员认为，察尔纳伊夫兄弟背后有一个“恐怖分子藏身巢穴”，恐怖分子经营这个巢穴多年并一直在伺机发起恐怖主义行动。
消息人士说：“调查局认为，这个团伙可能有十多名成员。”
据称，已经有近千名调查局工作人员开始搜寻这个恐怖团伙。
波士顿国际马拉松赛期间发生的爆炸事件造成3人死亡，183人受伤，是2001年“9·11”事件之后美国境内发生的最大一起恐怖袭击事件。这起事件的两名嫌疑人中，哥哥塔梅尔兰·察尔纳伊夫已经身亡，弟弟焦哈尔·察尔纳伊夫落网，但是因为颈部受枪伤被送往医院接受治疗。
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