"My brother made me do it"-Boston Bomb suspect
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told
investigators his older brother Tamerlan was the driving force behind
last week's attack and that no international terrorist groups were
behind them, a U.S. government source said Monday.
CNN says Tsarnaev, who has an injury to his throat, has communicated he
and his brother acted alone and that Tamerlan, the older of the two, was
the ringleader in the bombings.
Preliminary interviews with Tsarnaev indicate the two brothers fit the
classification of self-radicalized jihadists, the source said. Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, wounded and held in a Boston hospital, has said his brother --
who was killed early Friday -- wanted to defend Islam from attack,
The 19-year-old, who could face the death
penalty if convicted, was mostly silent and nodded affirmatively
throughout the brief bedside hearing, indicating that he understood the
charges laid against him, court transcripts published by The New York Times reveal.
But when asked if he could afford a lawyer, the teen spoke for the first
time, saying: "No".
A doctor, identified in the transcript as Dr Odom, asked Tsarnaev how he
was feeling.
"Are you able to answer some questions?" the doctor asked the teen.
Tsarnaev "nods affirmatively," according to the document, the first of four times during the
hearing.
CNN
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