BOSTON BOMB BLAST: NO PLACE FOR TERRORISTS IN AMERICA!
Critically Injured Bomb Suspect moved to Intensive Care Unit…FBI, CIA & Pentagon waiting to interrogate him
- Security Experts want to know if there’re other Explosives or Accomplices
- Handcuffed on hospital bed, surrounded by 50 policemen, placed on Oxygen
- FBI: ‘We are seeking answers & justice without a pause’
- “My Children are innocent”-Father of Suspect
- “Why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence”–Obama
BY SAMSON SHOAGA/MANAGING EDITOR, BOSTON
FOR Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a-19 year old naturalized United States citizen originally from Russia; the end had surely come for him, as he is presently writhing in pains as a result of profuse bleeding that came from heavy casualty he sustained while in hot gun exchange with the Boston police officers late yesterday. He was handcuffed at Mass General Hospital in Boston to the bed and surrounded by over 50 policemen guarding him.
FBI, CIA & Pentagon to Investigate suspect
Naija Standard gathered that repeated attempts by a combined team of Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pentagon to drill him since yesterday could not be attained, as suspect has been transferred into Intensive Care Unit (ICU) due to his unconsciousness. Boston police sources told our reporter that the suspect “looked very unconscious, flat tommy, still bleeding, placed on oxygen; while specialist physicians are on ground to ensure his health is revived, so that he can face interrogations.”
For now, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains too seriously injured to be questioned by authorities, reports. But as soon as he’s able, a special team of interrogators from the FBI, the CIA, and the Pentagon will grill him without reading him his Miranda rights. Authorities plan to invoke a rare “public safety exception” that allows them to question the 19-year-old without his lawyer present and without giving him the right to remain silent. The point is to find out whether other explosives or accomplices are still out there, and NBC News figures that he can be questioned without legal counsel for maybe 48 hours.
‘Tsarnaev will be tried in a Civilian Court’–White House
In the reaction of White House, Washington DC: “There’s no way an American citizen committing a domestic crime in the city of Boston could be tried as an enemy combatant.”
It’s still way too early to determine whether Tsarnaev will be tried in military or civilian court. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham issued a statement arguing that Tsarnaev should be held as an enemy combatant under the “law of war” and thus not entitled to the usual legal rights. That would result in a military commission, but NBC says the White House is determined to make this a civilian trial.
Obama Position
Sounding serious, President Barack Obama vowed to find out what turned two young US residents accused of the Boston bombings to violence, after the second suspect was captured alive, ending a week of horror.
Obama said in a late-night on-camera statement that the attacks had failed because Americans refused to be terrorized and heaped praise on police and law enforcement services while remembering the dead and injured. “Tonight, there are still many unanswered questions. Among them, why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence?” Obama asked.
He asked: “How did they plan and carry out these attacks? And did they receive any help? The families of those killed so senselessly deserve answers.”
Obama eulogizes Police, other security agencies
Obama also said America owed a great debt to law enforcement services, including the Boston and Massachusetts police forces and the FBI, which tracked down the perpetrators of Monday’s attacks.
In the words of Obama: “These men and women get up every day, they put on that uniform, they risk their lives to keep us safe, and as this week showed, they don’t always know what to expect.”
The president came to the podium in the White House press briefing room shortly after law enforcement services captured suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, alive in the Watertown suburb of Boston.
He paid special tribute to Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, who was killed overnight Friday as the captured suspect and his brother, who later died in an exchange of fire, tried to evade capture.
Obama, who watched the end of the huge manhunt in Boston on television in the White House residence, also remembered the three people killed when twin blasts took place near the finish line of the famed Boston marathon on Monday.
“One thing we do know is that whatever hateful agenda drove these men to such heinous acts will not, cannot prevail,” he said.
“Whatever they thought they could ultimately achieve, they’ve already failed. They failed because the people of Boston refused to be intimidated. They failed because as Americans, we refuse to be terrorized.”
‘My children are innocent’–Father of Suspect
Naija Standard learnt that a man who identified himself as the father of two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings said on Friday he believed his sons had been framed and pleaded with police to spare his younger son who was still on the run.
Sitting on an unmade bed in his home in Dagestan’s provincial capital Makhachkala, Anzor Tsarnaev, defended his sons’ innocence.
His words: “Somebody clearly framed them. I don’t know who exactly framed them, but they did. They framed them. And they were so cowardly that they shot the boy dead,” he told Reuters, clasping his head in despair. I’m scared for my boy – that they will shoot him dead too,” said the thin man in a black-and-blue sweater. “They should arrest him, bring him in, alive. And the judicial system should investigate everything, who’s right and who’s guilty.”
Message from FBI Director Robert S. Mueller:
“During this long week, we have seen an extraordinary effort by law enforcement, intelligence, and public safety agencies. These collaborative efforts, with the help and cooperation of the public, resulted in the successful outcome we have seen tonight. The investigation will continue as part of our efforts to seek answers and justice, and there will be no pause in that effort. But tonight, I wish to thank all those who worked so tirelessly throughout the week in the pursuit of safety and justice.”
