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Sheikh With Lebanese Ties Linked to Marathon Bombers

Excerpts of speeches from jihadist Sheikh Feiz Mohammad were allegedly found on the YouTube account of one of the Boston Marathon bombers, Jean Aziz reports.
The train schedule board shows train service to Boston canceled at New York's Penn Station April 19, 2013. All mass transit, including subways, buses, commuter rail and Amtrak trains, travelling to and from Boston have been shut down as the manhunt continues for Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarneav, in a shootout and mounted house-to-house searches for the second man, his brother Dzhokar Tsarnaev,
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"A Lebanese brainwashed the perpetrators of the Boston bombings." … "A Lebanese bombed the Boston Marathon via YouTube." … "Sheikh Fayez bombs Boston from Australia." These are some of the headlines published by Lebanese and Arab news sites after it was discovered that excerpts of speeches from a Sunni jihadist preacher of Lebanese-Australian origin were found on the YouTube account belonging to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two suspects in last Monday's [April 15] Boston Marathon bombing. 

According to these excerpts, this jihadist sheikh is named Feiz Mohammad. Preliminary information indicates that Mohammad was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1975, and is the son of two Lebanese citizens who emigrated from Dinniyeh, an area located near Tripoli in Northern Lebanon

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