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| U.S. to Seek Death Penalty for Accused Boston Bomber |
| 2014-01-31 |
[An Nahar] The United States is to seek the death penalty for accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev if he is convicted of involvement in the deadly attack, Attorney General Eric Inaction JacksonHolder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... said Thursday. "The nature of the conduct at issue and the resultant harm compel this decision," Holder said in a statement on the prosecution of the 20-year-old, a U.S. citizen from a Chechen Moslem family. Three people were killed and around 260 maimed on April 15 last year when two bombs made of explosives-packed pressure cookers went kaboom!near the finish line of the Boston marathon. Tsarnaev, then 19, and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev were cornered by police after a four-day manhunt. Tamerlan died after an exchange of fire with police and Dzhokhar was maimed. The shaggy-haired onetime student has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to 30 federal charges related to the bombings, including 17 serious charges that can carry sentences of death or of life in prison. These charges include using a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, as well as conspiracy and bombing of a place of public use resulting in death, and carjacking. Tsarnaev is also charged in connection with the shooting death of a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the brothers' wild overnight getaway attempt. The brothers are said to have built the bombs with help from an online al-Qaeda magazine, but they are not accused of having received help from any organized foreign terror group. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 #10 - plenty is being hidden from us. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-01-31 16:17 |
| #10 If he dies fast then something bad is being hidden from us. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-01-31 16:05 |
| #9 And then the Che t-shirt concession. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-01-31 14:47 |
| #8 Maybe if he makes a mockery of the trial he'll get another glorious Rolling Stone cover. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-01-31 14:47 |
| #7 Terre Haute gurney ride... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2014-01-31 11:03 |
| #6 Over / Under is 2025 |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-01-31 11:03 |
| #5 Hey, the kid only killed three people. And besides, he is still grieving because his brother died. True, his brother died because he got run over by Dzhokhar. It will also be interesting to see who dies first: Tsarnaev or Hassan. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-01-31 10:17 |
| #4 Let's see how quick they are in getting the needle in, say, vs the Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-01-31 09:12 |
| #3 Yet we are expected to believe that the finest intelligence and law enforcement services in the world had no prior knowledge of the Tsarnaev Bros. whatsoever. Please file under Nidal Hasan, Chris Stevens, IRS, Fast and Furious, or NSA. You pick. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-31 07:04 |
| #2 The Russians and Saudis supposedly warned us about the Tsarnaev brothers. Russia warns and Saudi warns. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-01-31 06:33 |
| #1 Sure glad we had those neat FBI photos of the Tsarnaev bros. so soon after the bombing. They've always been keen on releasing critical information regarding potential suspects during the conduct of..... "ongoing investigations." Tough Questions. "Did the FBI have the suspects under physical surveillance at any time prior to releasing the photos to the public?" Grassley wrote in his letter to FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. The FBI aired the photos of the then-unnamed suspects during a 5 p.m. press conference on the Thursday after the bombing, about five hours before Collier was shot and killed. Grassley also writes that his office has learned through sources that, "In the hours leading up to the shooting of Collier and the death of the older suspect involved in the bombing, sources revealed that uniformed Cambridge Police Department officers encountered multiple teams of FBI employees conducting surveillance in the area of Central Square in Cambridge. It is unclear who the FBI was watching, but these sources allege the Cambridge Police Department, including its representation at the (Joint Terrorism Task Force), was not previously made aware of the FBI's activity in Cambridge." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-31 04:32 |