
Terrorists Wanted To Attack On July 4th
The suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing had originally planned to strike on July 4, but chose the race because it coincided with the time they had finished assembling the explosives, a law enforcement official said Thursday. According to hospital interviews with surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shortly after he was captured, the suspects apparently finished constructing the explosives well before they had originally planned and chose to act sooner rather than wait, the official who is not authorized to comment publicly told USA TODAY. Ref. USAToday
Friends helped destroy bombing evidence
The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect exchanged text messages with a friend who had become suspicious after seeing what looked like a familiar face on television, authorities say. That friend and two others now stand accused of aiding the suspected bombers. Ref. Source 5
Alleged Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's death certificate says he died of gunshot wounds and blunt trauma, said Peter Stefan, the owner of the funeral parlor that holds Tsarnaev's body.
Tsarnaev died April 19 after a shootout with police; authorities have said he also was run over by his brother, Dzhokhar, who was later captured. Ref. CNN
The body of Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been entombed thanks to a "Courageous and compassionate individual (who) came forward," Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, said today.
Police did not say where the body was entombed, but did say that the body was "No longer in the city of Worcester." The city's police chief "Thanks the community that provided the burial site." Police said in a statement.
Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, are accused of setting off two deadly explosions at the Boston Marathon on April 15. Tsarnaev died of gunshot wounds and trauma after an April 19 gunbattle with police.
His uncle claimed his body but had trouble finding a cemetery that would bury Tsarnaev. Ref. CNN
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two suspects in the April 15 Boston Marathon terror attack, has been buried in a Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Virginia, near Richmond, a source close to the investigation told CNN today.
The body went unclaimed for nearly two weeks after Tsarnaev was killed April 19 following a police chase. His uncle claimed the body but had trouble finding a cemetery that would bury Tsarnaev.
On Thursday, police said the remains had been entombed thanks to a "Courageous and compassionate individual." The police did not give a location for the grave. Ref. CNN
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon attack indicated that the bombing was retribution for what he called U.S. Attacks against Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, a law enforcement official says.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made remarks about the bombing in a makeshift message found in the boat where he was captured in the backyard of a Watertown, Massachusetts, home.
Tsarnaev scribbled that the Boston victims were collateral damage as Muslims have been during war, and that an attack against one Muslim is an attack against all of them.
The twin blasts at the Boston Marathon on April 15 killed three and wounded more than 260 others. Ref. CNN
Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 triple homicide outside Boston along with a Chechen killed Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.
Ibragim Todashev not only confessed to his direct role in slashing the throats of three people in the killings in Waltham, Massachusetts, he also fingered Tsarnaev in the deaths, the official says. Ref. CNN