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CBS News: Writing on the wall of a bullet-ridden boat: A parting manifesto of sort by the surviving perpetrator, Dzhohar Tsarnaev, who thought he was gonna die from bleeding of his gunshot wounds and the world wouldn't know why!
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left note in boat explaining motives, CBS report says
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/16/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-message-boat-cbs-news
According to CBS News, Tsarnaev used a pen to scrawl a message on the
inside wall of the boat calling brother a martyr
Reuters in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 May 2013 11.21 EDT
A CBS News report claims Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a message on the
inside of the boat where he was found. Photograph: Corbis
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was found hiding
in a boat days after the blasts, left a handwritten message describing
the attack as retribution for US wars in Muslim countries, CBS News
reported on Thursday.
The CBS News report, citing anonymous sources, said that Tsarnaev used
a pen to write the message on an interior wall of the boat, where
police found him bleeding from gunshot wounds four days after the
April 15 bombing. The note summed up with the idea that "when you
attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims," CBS News reported.
CBS News did not make clear how its sources knew the information, and
Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the report. A spokeswoman
for the FBI in Boston, Katherine Gulotta, declined to confirm or deny
the report.
The CBS News report said Tsarnaev, 19, described his older brother and
fellow suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who died in a gunbattle with
police, as "a martyr."
"Basically, the note says ... the the bombings were retribution for
the US crimes against Muslims in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and
that the victims of the Boston bombing were 'collateral damage,' the
same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in US wars
around the world," said CBS News reporter John Miller, who is a former
spokesman for the FBI.
The bombings at the finish line of the world-famous marathon killed
three people and injured 264 others. The FBI identified the ethnic
Chechen brothers as suspects from video and pictures at the
scene. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested in Watertown, Massachusetts, on
April 19 after a daylong manhunt and lockdown of much of the Boston
area. He is being held in a prison hospital west of Boston and faces
charges that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been on a US government database of potential
terrorism suspects and the United States had twice been warned by
Russia that he might be an Islamic militant, according to US security
officials.
-----
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57584771/boston-bombings-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-left-note-in-boat-he-hid-in-sources-say/
(CBS News) Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note
claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston
Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller.
Sources tell Miller that Tsarnaev wrote the note in the boat he was
hiding in as police pursued him, and as he bled from gunshot wounds
sustained in an earlier shootout between police and his older brother,
Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It reads as part manifesto, part suicide note, and
part justification for the killing and maiming of innocent civilians.
The note -- scrawled with a marker on the interior wall of the cabin
-- said the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in
Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims "collateral
damage" in the same way Muslims have been in the American-led
wars. "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims," Tsarnaev
wrote.
Dzhokar said he didn't mourn older brother Tamerlan, the other suspect
in the bombings, writing that by that point, Tamerlan was a martyr in
paradise -- and that he expected to join him there soon.
Miller's sources say the wall the note was written on was riddled with
bullet holes from over one hundred rounds fired into the hull of the
boat, shots were fired after Dzhokhar came up through the tarp
covering the boat amid police fears that he had a firearm or more
explosive devices.
According to Miller, the note will be a significant piece of evidence
in any Dzhokar trial -- it is "certainly admissible," and paints a
clear picture of the brothers' motive, "consistent with what he told
investigators while he was in custody," Miller said Thursday on "CBS
This Morning."
Miller explained that while Dzhokar admitted many of the same details
to authorities during his 16 hours in custody, those admissions came
"during the time he was interrogated but before he was given his
Miranda warning." The note gives prosecutors supporting and clearly
admissible evidence even if there is an fight over whether things
Dzhokar said before he was given his Miranda rights are admissible as
evidence.
Investigators say the brief manifesto bolsters the theory that
Dzhokar's involvement in the bomb plot went beyond merely following in
the path of his likely self-radicalized older brother.
It took days to learn the identity of the bombers, and there was no
official claim of responsibility, which is unusual in these cases. As
investigators move forward with the investigation, "the last big
question remaining is going to be who else knew anything? Is it going
to be the wife? Is it someone overseas?" Miller said.
The suspects didn't plan to stop after the Boston bombings,
authorities say. They intended to go to New York City and set off a
device or devices in Times Square.
The brothers didn't have well-developed plans for New York, but they
still had intent, Miller said. So as Dzhokhar lay in the boat, he
wanted to leave a message behind clearly supporting what the note says
he and his brother had just done.
For a plot as organized as the one was for Boston, it seems odd that
-- with a choice of leaving behind a martyrdom video on a computer or
a more formal claim of responsibility -- the brothers had nothing
prepared, Miller said. A larger terror organization ensures that such
videos are made out of the country and are ready to launch after the
attack.
The boat note could be a way for Dzhokhar to get on the record as
publicly claiming responsibility for the bombings, according to
Miller, who added that either way, Dzhokar's attorneys will have to
deal with his handwritten confession.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/16/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-message-boat-cbs-news
According to CBS News, Tsarnaev used a pen to scrawl a message on the
inside wall of the boat calling brother a martyr
Reuters in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 May 2013 11.21 EDT
A CBS News report claims Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a message on the
inside of the boat where he was found. Photograph: Corbis
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was found hiding
in a boat days after the blasts, left a handwritten message describing
the attack as retribution for US wars in Muslim countries, CBS News
reported on Thursday.
The CBS News report, citing anonymous sources, said that Tsarnaev used
a pen to write the message on an interior wall of the boat, where
police found him bleeding from gunshot wounds four days after the
April 15 bombing. The note summed up with the idea that "when you
attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims," CBS News reported.
CBS News did not make clear how its sources knew the information, and
Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the report. A spokeswoman
for the FBI in Boston, Katherine Gulotta, declined to confirm or deny
the report.
The CBS News report said Tsarnaev, 19, described his older brother and
fellow suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who died in a gunbattle with
police, as "a martyr."
"Basically, the note says ... the the bombings were retribution for
the US crimes against Muslims in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and
that the victims of the Boston bombing were 'collateral damage,' the
same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in US wars
around the world," said CBS News reporter John Miller, who is a former
spokesman for the FBI.
The bombings at the finish line of the world-famous marathon killed
three people and injured 264 others. The FBI identified the ethnic
Chechen brothers as suspects from video and pictures at the
scene. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested in Watertown, Massachusetts, on
April 19 after a daylong manhunt and lockdown of much of the Boston
area. He is being held in a prison hospital west of Boston and faces
charges that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been on a US government database of potential
terrorism suspects and the United States had twice been warned by
Russia that he might be an Islamic militant, according to US security
officials.
-----
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57584771/boston-bombings-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-left-note-in-boat-he-hid-in-sources-say/
(CBS News) Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note
claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston
Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller.
Sources tell Miller that Tsarnaev wrote the note in the boat he was
hiding in as police pursued him, and as he bled from gunshot wounds
sustained in an earlier shootout between police and his older brother,
Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It reads as part manifesto, part suicide note, and
part justification for the killing and maiming of innocent civilians.
The note -- scrawled with a marker on the interior wall of the cabin
-- said the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in
Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims "collateral
damage" in the same way Muslims have been in the American-led
wars. "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims," Tsarnaev
wrote.
Dzhokar said he didn't mourn older brother Tamerlan, the other suspect
in the bombings, writing that by that point, Tamerlan was a martyr in
paradise -- and that he expected to join him there soon.
Miller's sources say the wall the note was written on was riddled with
bullet holes from over one hundred rounds fired into the hull of the
boat, shots were fired after Dzhokhar came up through the tarp
covering the boat amid police fears that he had a firearm or more
explosive devices.
According to Miller, the note will be a significant piece of evidence
in any Dzhokar trial -- it is "certainly admissible," and paints a
clear picture of the brothers' motive, "consistent with what he told
investigators while he was in custody," Miller said Thursday on "CBS
This Morning."
Miller explained that while Dzhokar admitted many of the same details
to authorities during his 16 hours in custody, those admissions came
"during the time he was interrogated but before he was given his
Miranda warning." The note gives prosecutors supporting and clearly
admissible evidence even if there is an fight over whether things
Dzhokar said before he was given his Miranda rights are admissible as
evidence.
Investigators say the brief manifesto bolsters the theory that
Dzhokar's involvement in the bomb plot went beyond merely following in
the path of his likely self-radicalized older brother.
It took days to learn the identity of the bombers, and there was no
official claim of responsibility, which is unusual in these cases. As
investigators move forward with the investigation, "the last big
question remaining is going to be who else knew anything? Is it going
to be the wife? Is it someone overseas?" Miller said.
The suspects didn't plan to stop after the Boston bombings,
authorities say. They intended to go to New York City and set off a
device or devices in Times Square.
The brothers didn't have well-developed plans for New York, but they
still had intent, Miller said. So as Dzhokhar lay in the boat, he
wanted to leave a message behind clearly supporting what the note says
he and his brother had just done.
For a plot as organized as the one was for Boston, it seems odd that
-- with a choice of leaving behind a martyrdom video on a computer or
a more formal claim of responsibility -- the brothers had nothing
prepared, Miller said. A larger terror organization ensures that such
videos are made out of the country and are ready to launch after the
attack.
The boat note could be a way for Dzhokhar to get on the record as
publicly claiming responsibility for the bombings, according to
Miller, who added that either way, Dzhokar's attorneys will have to
deal with his handwritten confession.
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