The wife of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect is assisting authorities and in absolute shock that her husband and brother-in-law were accused of the deadly blasts, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
‘She cries a lot,’ attorney Amato DeLuca said of Katherine Russell, 24, an American-born convert to Islam who was married to Tamerlan Tsarnaev in June 2010. ‘She can’t go anywhere. She can’t work.’
The two ethnic Chechen brothers remained the only known suspects. People interviewed by Reuters described Tamerlan Tsarnaev as proud but angry, never quite achieving his own idea of the American dream, and instead finding solace in a radical form of Islam adopted by fighters in his homeland.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s condition improved to ‘fair’ from ‘serious’ as he recovered from gunshot wounds at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where in an impromptu hearing on Monday he was charged with two crimes that could result in the death penalty if he were convicted. Since recovering enough to communicate by nodding his head and writing, the younger Tsarnaev has also told authorities he and his brother acted alone, learned to build the pressure-cooker bombs over the internet and were motivated by a desire to defend Islam because of ‘the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,’ NBC News reported.
NBC cited an unnamed US counterterrorism source who has received multiple briefings on the investigation. Reuters could not confirm the information.
RELIEF FUND RAISES $20 MN
A relief fund for the Boston Marathon bombing victims has raised $20 million in just over a week, authorities announced. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino made the announcement regarding the One Fund Boston, jointly set up by himself and Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, at a news conference in Boston Tuesday. ‘Boston is strong and made stronger by the outpouring of support,’ said the mayor, noting that $5 million of the fund came from over 50,000 individual donors contributing online at onefundboston.
‘She cries a lot,’ attorney Amato DeLuca said of Katherine Russell, 24, an American-born convert to Islam who was married to Tamerlan Tsarnaev in June 2010. ‘She can’t go anywhere. She can’t work.’
The two ethnic Chechen brothers remained the only known suspects. People interviewed by Reuters described Tamerlan Tsarnaev as proud but angry, never quite achieving his own idea of the American dream, and instead finding solace in a radical form of Islam adopted by fighters in his homeland.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s condition improved to ‘fair’ from ‘serious’ as he recovered from gunshot wounds at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where in an impromptu hearing on Monday he was charged with two crimes that could result in the death penalty if he were convicted. Since recovering enough to communicate by nodding his head and writing, the younger Tsarnaev has also told authorities he and his brother acted alone, learned to build the pressure-cooker bombs over the internet and were motivated by a desire to defend Islam because of ‘the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,’ NBC News reported.
NBC cited an unnamed US counterterrorism source who has received multiple briefings on the investigation. Reuters could not confirm the information.
RELIEF FUND RAISES $20 MN
A relief fund for the Boston Marathon bombing victims has raised $20 million in just over a week, authorities announced. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino made the announcement regarding the One Fund Boston, jointly set up by himself and Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, at a news conference in Boston Tuesday. ‘Boston is strong and made stronger by the outpouring of support,’ said the mayor, noting that $5 million of the fund came from over 50,000 individual donors contributing online at onefundboston.