Boston Marathon bombing suspect has claimed that he and his brother were motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs and the two wars that the US fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, but were not acting with known terrorist groups. Seriously injured surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told investigators from his hospital bed that neither he now nor his brother Tamerlan, who was killed in a shootout with police, had any contact with terrorist groups overseas, according to various media reports.
Communicating with investigators by writing and nodding, Tsarnaev has told investigators the brothers were self-radicalised via the Internet, CNN reported citing a US government official. Investigators also are looking into whether the online English-language magazine Inspire, put out by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was used for instruction on how to make the pressure cooker bombs, it said. The twin blasts just before the finish line of the April 15 race killed three people and wounded more than 260, according to the latest count.
The New York Times citing law enforcement officials said the investigation into the bombings is still in its earliest stages, and federal authorities were still in the process of corroborating some of the admissions made by the surviving suspect.
But some of Tsarnaev’s statements suggested that the two brothers could represent the kind of emerging threat that federal authorities have long feared: angry and alienated young men, apparently self-trained and unaffiliated with any particular terrorist group, able to use the Internet to learn their lethal craft, officials cited by the Times said.
Communicating with investigators by writing and nodding, Tsarnaev has told investigators the brothers were self-radicalised via the Internet, CNN reported citing a US government official. Investigators also are looking into whether the online English-language magazine Inspire, put out by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was used for instruction on how to make the pressure cooker bombs, it said. The twin blasts just before the finish line of the April 15 race killed three people and wounded more than 260, according to the latest count.
The New York Times citing law enforcement officials said the investigation into the bombings is still in its earliest stages, and federal authorities were still in the process of corroborating some of the admissions made by the surviving suspect.
But some of Tsarnaev’s statements suggested that the two brothers could represent the kind of emerging threat that federal authorities have long feared: angry and alienated young men, apparently self-trained and unaffiliated with any particular terrorist group, able to use the Internet to learn their lethal craft, officials cited by the Times said.