The head of al-Qaeda in Yemen has released a recording threatening Americans and saying the kind of bombs used in Boston were within “everyone’s reach.”
Qassin al-Rimi claims the attack in Boston shows the U.S.’s weakness in security and urged Muslims to “defend their religion”. Continue reading
Three people are facing charges related to assisting one of the Boston Marathon bombers.
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakova are friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in UMass-Dartmouth and according to investigators removed evidence from Tsarnaev’s apartment in an attempt to deceive police. The two 19-year-olds removed a laptop, backpack and Vaseline that was used in producing the pressure cooker bombs. Continue reading
Fox News has released information obtained from a confidential source that female DNA was found on the parts of the bombs used in the Boston Marathon attacks.
“No one should expect that the investigation is over,” the source told Fox, confirming information also reported in the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading
A United Nation official has blamed the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings on “American global domination.”
In an article called “A Commentary on the Marathon Murders”, UN Human Rights Council’s Palestine monitor Richard Falk wrote “the American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world.” Continue reading
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is communicating with interrogators and has said that his Islamic faith was motivation for the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon.
Tsarnaev was officially charged today with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. He suffered a throat injury in his standoff with Boston police leaving him unable to speak. He has been communicating through writing. Continue reading
The London Daily Mirror is reporting that the FBI is searching for a “sleeper cell” containing as many as 12 people in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.
A source close to the investigation reported that over 1,000 FBI workers were tracking down the cell and had arrested a man and woman about 60 miles from Boston just before the capture Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Continue reading
Boston’s top cop is saying that the Boston Marathon bombers had planned to attack more people based on evidence discovered during the investigation.
Police Commissioner Ed Davis said that the terrorists had been carrying homemade bombs and grenades that they threw at police when cornered. Continue reading
Friday night, less than a week after killing three people and injuring over 170 others in a terrorist bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is the custody of FBI and Boston police officials.
Tsarnaev, 19, identified as “suspect two” in the photographs released by the FBI this week, was discovered hiding inside a boat in the backyard of a home in Watertown, Massachusetts. The homeowner had been in his backyard earlier in the day and saw nothing but as evening approached noticed something amiss about the boat just after the police order to stay inside had been lifted by Governor Deval Patrick. Continue reading
Police in Massachusetts and Connecticut are hunting for a green Honda and much of Boston remained on lockdown as the hunt for the second Boston Marathon bomber continued following a chaotic night of mayhem night that saw a police officer and one of the suspects killed. Continue reading
The man identified in FBI photos as “suspect number one”, Tamerian Tsarnaev, is dead.
“Suspect Two”, Dzhokhar Tsarnavev, the brother of suspect one, is on the run and the police around Watertown, Massachusetts are going door-to-door to find him. Continue reading
