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A motorcade carrying alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev arrived at the Moakley Courthouse in Boston
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Boston bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Boston on Wednesday afternoon -- the first public court appearance for the teenager.
Dzokhar, 19, was found wounded in a boat stored in a suburban backyard after a massive manhunt and shootout with police in which his brother died last April. He's being tried in the Boston courthouse next to where reputed mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger is being tried for racketeering. Attorney General Eric Holder will have to decide several months before the start of the trial -- if there is one -- whether to seek death for Tsarnaev. If the Obama administration tries for the death penalty, it could face a long, difficult legal battle in a state that hasn't seen an execution in nearly 70 years. Holder, in making his decision, will get plenty of advice. ... Read more » |
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Accused teen terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will make his first public appearance since being caught cowering in a shrink-wrapped boat when he’s arraigned tomorrow in a federal courtroom on charges related to the Boston Marathon bombings and manhunt that killed four people and injured 260. All of the accused bomber’s victims have been notified of the 3:30 hearing in U.S. District Court in Boston, but Christina DiIorio-Sterling, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said she is unable to discuss how many plan to attend. One courthouse official did tell the Herald: "We are giving a lot of space to the victims.” Tsarnaev’s arraignment is scheduled to be held in a fifth-floor courtroom adjacent to the one where Southie mobster James "Whitey” Bulger is on trial.
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Even as a federal grand jury returned a 30-count indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his alleged role in the Boston Marathon bombing, this week, supporters are gathering messages and poems to wish him a happy 20th birthday on July 22, which he will most likely spend at Devens Federal Medical Center in Ayers, Massachusetts, where he is now. The allegations against the young immigrant from Dagestan are being doubted world wide, and suspicions of an FBI frame up are growing. The addition of "using a firearm to intentionally kill MIT Police Officer Sean Collier” to the list of charges against Tsarnaev is certainly odd, since previous police reports stated that the shooting incident was unrelated to the bombing suspects. "This indictment is the result of exemplary cooperation betw ... Read more » |
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Author: Kristy Puchko It hasn't even been four months since the Boston Marathon bombings rocked the nation on April 15th, but already a movie adaptation is in the works. But before you cry out, "Too soon," consider the pair behind the proposed docudrama. Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, co-writers of David O. Russell's Academy Award-winning biopic The Fighter, are heading up a drama based on a yet-to-be published book called Boston Strong. Deadline reports the pair picked up the rights to the book, which is currently being written by journalist and true crime author Casey Sherman, and Boston Herald reporter Dave Wedge. With their book, Wedge and Sherman are hoping to capture the reaction of the people of Boston to the bombing both during the attack and the terrifying manhunt that followed - which eventually led to the killing of one suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and the capture of his younger brother/ ... Read more » |
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April 19, 2013 ( Recap ) They were right outside his door. A Massachusetts gas station clerk has come forward to describe his terrifying brush with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in the beginning hours of their overnight terror spree. Tarek Ahmed told FoxNews.com he was behind the register of his Cambridge store on Thursday night when a man in his 20s ran in shouting for his life. "Call the police! Call the police! These people are trying to kill me!" the man screamed, according to Ahmed. ... Read more » |
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April 30, 2013 (Recap)
The hold on the public’s mind of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s supposed confession to interrogators that he and his brother indeed carried out the Boston bombings is strong. (It is not usually noticed that we only have the FBI’s word on whatever Tsarnaev said under the interrogation, and that it was carried out under problematic medical conditions that actual doctors have not clarified.) Thus even FDL’s crack journalist Kevin Gosztola slipped up yesterday and spoke of "the attack by Dhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev” without employing the word "alleged.” But somewhat buried in a report by the Los Angeles Times filed last Thursday, not widely noticed until yesterday, is a revelation by a person identified as "a senior congressional aide” that "Tsarnaev had aske ... Read more » |
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The English definition of terrorism is; the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature. Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that the Boston Marathon bomber does not fit the criteria of terrorism. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a written message, which he thought would be his last, inside the renowned hideaway boat in Watertown. It stated that the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims "collateral damage” in the same way Muslims have been killed in the American-led wars.
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