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“Bomb suspect's buddies covered for him, feds say”.
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A laptop, some empty fireworks and a jar of Vaseline landed three friends of Boston Marathon bomb suspect in jail Wednesday, charged with trying to throw investigators off their buddy's trail. Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev and Robel Phillipos took this evidence from Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in the hours after the FBI released photos of Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan. According to FBI affidavits, they quickly recognized their friend from the pictures. "According to Kadyrbayev, they collectively decided to throw the backpack and fireworks into the trash because they did not want Tsarnaev to get into trouble," the affidavit states.
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