The Boston Marathon bombers were headed for New York’s Times Square to blow up the rest of their explosives, authorities said Thursday, in what they portrayed as a chilling, spur-of-the-moment scheme that fell apart when the brothers realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas. “New York City was next on their list of targets,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators from his hospital bed that he and his older brother decided on the spot last Thursday night to drive to New York and launch an attack. In their stolen SUV they had five pipe bombs and a pressure-cooker explosive like the ones that blew up at the marathon, Kelly said.
The biggest question is still left unanswered. What made them do this? Was this as everyone predicts, a act of terrorism? Whatever it was, it raises an even bigger question. Will he face the death penalty? http://nation.time.com/2013/04/25/boston-bombing-suspect-said-new-york-city-was-next-target/
The biggest question is still left unanswered. What made them do this? Was this as everyone predicts, a act of terrorism? Whatever it was, it raises an even bigger question. Will he face the death penalty? http://nation.time.com/2013/04/25/boston-bombing-suspect-said-new-york-city-was-next-target/
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