Boston bombing investigation turns to motive
Surviving suspect of Marathon blasts in "serious condition" and unable to speak
due to throat injuries, authorities say.
Last Modified: 21 Apr 2013 02:21
The surviving suspect in the Boston bombings has sustained serious injuries and
is recovering a hospital as investigators seek a motive for the attacks and try
to determine whether the brothers suspected of the attack acted alone.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was captured late on Friday night after a gunfight with
police which ended a daylong manhunt.
His apprehension in a Watertown backyard sent waves of relief and jubilation
throughout Boston.
Tsarnaev's brother, Tamerlan, 26, died on Thursday after a shootout with police.
His younger brother was shot in the throat and could not speak because of
injuries to his tongue, said a source close to the investigation.
It was unclear when he would be able to talk again or when he would be charged.
"It's serious ... he's not yet able to speak," Massachusetts Governor Deval
Patrick told reporters on Saturday. "We have a million questions and those
questions need to be answered."
The brothers are suspected of setting off bombs made in pressure cookers and
packed with ball bearings and nails at the crowded finish line of Monday's
marathon, killing three people and injuring 176.
Calm returns
Life in Boston began to return to normal on Saturday as the Red Sox returned to
Fenway Park for the first time since the bombings, paying an emotional tribute
to the victims and the first responders before their baseball game.
"When (Tsarnaev) was apprehended and we saw the reactions of everyone in
Watertown, I just got online and got two tickets for the game," said Linda
Gibbs, 52, from Westborough, Massachusetts.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was shot in the throat and could not speak because of
injuries to his tongue, sources say [AFP]
"We just really wanted to be here and to support everyone."
Tsarnaev had been hiding in a boat parked in the backyard of a house in the
suburb of Watertown and was captured after a resident spotted blood on the boat
and called police.
He was being treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston.
The FBI believes Tamerlan was the leader of the pair, although investigators
were checking on people who had contact
with both brothers to see if anyone else was involved, said a senior US law
enforcement source.
Early indications are the brothers acted alone, Watertown Police Chief Edward
Deveau told CNN on Saturday. "From what I know right now, these two acted
together and alone," he said.
"But as far as this little ... group, I think we got our guys."
Parents say sons framed
The FBI said it interviewed Tamerlan in 2011 at the request of a foreign
government - identified by a law enforcement source as Russia - after that
country raised concerns that he followed radical Islam.
The FBI did not find any "terrorism activity".
Tamerlan travelled to Moscow in January last year and spent six months in the
region, a law enforcement source said, but it was unclear what he did while he
was there.
Al Jazeera's David Chater reports from Dagestan's capital Makhachkala on
Tsarnaev brothers roots
President Barack Obama said on Friday after the capture that questions remained
from the bombings, including whether the two suspects received any help. Obama
has described the bombings an act of terrorism.
Tsarnaev was a student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and is
believed to have been on the college campus on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
said a university official.
The family emigrated to the United States about a decade ago. The brothers
spent their early years in a small community of Chechens in the central Asian
country of Kyrgyzstan, a mainly Muslim nation of 5.5 million.
The family moved in 2001 to Dagestan, a southern Russian province that lies at
the heart of a violent insurgency and where their parents now live.
In separate interviews, the parents of the Tsarnaev brothers said they believed
their sons were incapable of carrying out the bombings.
Others remembered the brothers as friendly and respectful youths who never
stood out or caused alarm.
"Somebody clearly framed them. I don't know who exactly framed them, but they
did. They framed them. And they were so cowardly that they shot the boy dead,"
father Anzor Tsarnaev said in an interview with Reuters news agency in
Dagestan's provincial capital, Makhachkala, clasping his head in despair.
Source:
Al Jazeera And Agencies
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