Search for why begins in Boston Marathon bombings
WATERTOWN, Mass. — With one suspect dead and the other captured, investigators turned from the manhunt for those responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings to questions about their motivation and whether they had help.
The investigation turns on a seriously wounded teenager, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, found hiding Friday night in a boat parked behind a house here.
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President Obama framed what comes next when he addressed the nation Friday night after police captured the 19-year-old.
“Obviously, there are still many unanswered questions,” he said. “Among them, why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence? How did they plan and carry out these attacks? And did they receive help?”
Tsarnaev’s arrest ended a wrenching week in Boston, which began Monday with thebombings that killed three people and injured more than 170 at one of the city’s most cherished events. It ended with another stunning spasm of violence, which began late Thursday night. Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, allegedly killed a police officer, carjacked a Mercedes and engaged police in a shootout in which the elder Tsarnaev was killed.
In a few days here, the Tsarnaevs had provided a new lesson in the awful, magnifying power of terrorism. Two unremarkable brothers, equipped with low-tech bombs and no apparent escape plan, had allegedly killed four people and held one of America’s great cities in the grip of fear.
It was unclear early Saturday morning when officials could begin seeking answers from Tsarnaev, who police said late Friday was in serious condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the same hospital where his brother was pronounced dead earlier in the day.
Federal officials said they would use a public safety exception to delay giving Tsarnaev his “Miranda” warning, which imparts a right to counsel and a warning about self-incrimination.
A 2010 memorandum from the Justice Department said a delay in issuing Miranda warnings was justified when suspected terrorists were captured in the United States. The exception allows agents to ask questions reasonably prompted by an immediate concern for the public’s safety. Additionally, it says that in “exceptional” cases, agents may conclude that continued “unwarned” investigation is warranted.
The FBI confirmed Friday that its agents in Boston had interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 at the request of a foreign government. A law enforcement official said the request came from the Russian government, concerned about Tsarnaev’s potential ties to Chechen terrorists. But after that interview, the FBI did not follow him further, officials said.
The Tsarnaev brothers are of Chechen heritage. Both were born in the Caucasus region, a cauldron fought over by Chechen separatists, Russian security forces, Islamist extremists and organized crime. They had immigrated legally and lived for years in the Boston area, where their father, Anzor, was an auto mechanic.
In the past, both men had embraced American passions, according to friends and neighbors. Tamerlan was an accomplished boxer, with a wife and child. Dzhokhar was a wrestler at Cambridge’s public high school who went on to attend the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
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