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TSARNAEV BROTHERS TARGETED JULY 4 FOR ATTACK
09:59, 3 May, 2013
YEREVAN, MAY 3, ARMENPRESS: The Tsarnaev brothers suspected in
Boston Marathon bombing considered suicide attacks and striking on
the Fourth of July as they plotted their deadly assault, according
to two law enforcement officials, as reported by Armenpress. But the
suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told investigators that he and his
brother, Tamerlan, 26, who was killed in a shootout with the police,
ultimately decided to use pressure-cooker bombs and other homemade
explosive devices, the officials said.
The brothers finished building the bombs in Tamerlan's apartment
in Cambridge, faster than they had anticipated, and so decided to
accelerate their attack to the Boston Marathon on April 15, Patriots'
Day in Massachusetts, according to the account that Dzhokhar provided
to authorities. They picked the finish line of the marathon after
driving around the Boston area looking for alternative sites, according
to this account.
In the course of the questioning, Tamerlan acknowledged laying the
bombs that killed three people and injured more than 260 at the
finish line of the marathon. He told the interrogators that he and
his brother had been motivated to strike against the United States
partly because of its military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and
what the two saw as a broader conspiracy against Muslims. Mr. Tsarnaev
also said that he knew of no other plots and that he and his brother
had acted alone and were not connected to a larger terrorist network,
according to the account.
Investigators believe that the views of the two brothers grew more
radical over time. In the interrogation of Mr. Tsarnaev, he told
the authorities that he and his brother had learned to build the
pressure-cooker bombs from reading Inspire, the online magazine
published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The magazine's first issue - which included an article titled "Make
a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom" - gave instructions about how to
carry out crude, low-cost terrorist attacks.
09:59, 3 May, 2013
YEREVAN, MAY 3, ARMENPRESS: The Tsarnaev brothers suspected in
Boston Marathon bombing considered suicide attacks and striking on
the Fourth of July as they plotted their deadly assault, according
to two law enforcement officials, as reported by Armenpress. But the
suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told investigators that he and his
brother, Tamerlan, 26, who was killed in a shootout with the police,
ultimately decided to use pressure-cooker bombs and other homemade
explosive devices, the officials said.
The brothers finished building the bombs in Tamerlan's apartment
in Cambridge, faster than they had anticipated, and so decided to
accelerate their attack to the Boston Marathon on April 15, Patriots'
Day in Massachusetts, according to the account that Dzhokhar provided
to authorities. They picked the finish line of the marathon after
driving around the Boston area looking for alternative sites, according
to this account.
In the course of the questioning, Tamerlan acknowledged laying the
bombs that killed three people and injured more than 260 at the
finish line of the marathon. He told the interrogators that he and
his brother had been motivated to strike against the United States
partly because of its military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and
what the two saw as a broader conspiracy against Muslims. Mr. Tsarnaev
also said that he knew of no other plots and that he and his brother
had acted alone and were not connected to a larger terrorist network,
according to the account.
Investigators believe that the views of the two brothers grew more
radical over time. In the interrogation of Mr. Tsarnaev, he told
the authorities that he and his brother had learned to build the
pressure-cooker bombs from reading Inspire, the online magazine
published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The magazine's first issue - which included an article titled "Make
a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom" - gave instructions about how to
carry out crude, low-cost terrorist attacks.