Toy car remote control used to detonate Boston bombs
26 April 2013 8:35 AM IST
The Chechen-origin Boston bombings suspects used a remote-control device from a toy car to set off the pressure-cooker bomb and apparently learnt to build it from an al-Qaeda online magazine, a key US lawmaker has said on Thursday.
Maryland Representative Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, confirmed the details after a closed-door briefing with three senior national security officials on Capitol Hill. Two Chechen-origin brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarvaev, 19, have been accused of carrying out the deadly Boston Marathon bombings that claimed three lives and injured over 250. Dzhokhar has been charged with conspiring to use ‘weapon of mass destruction’ and faces death penalty. Authorities said the two used a pressure-cooker bomb filled with nails and ball bearings in the attack. Ruppersberger said based on information from Dzhokhar, it appears the brothers learned how to build the bomb from Inspire magazine, a publication founded by Anwar al-Awlaki, the now-deceased al-Qaeda leader.
‘That has always been a concern of ours. That magazine was put out to recruit people for jihad,’ Ruppersberger said. He also gave more details on Russia’s contact with US regarding Tamerlan. Following Russia’s request to FBI regarding Tamerlan, he said US officials asked Russian authorities three times for more information, but never got a response. AGENCIES
FATHER OF SUSPECTS TO FLY TO US
The father of the two Chechen-origin Boston bombings suspects is expected to fly from Russia to the US soon and may bring important information for the probe into the deadly attack. Anzor Tsarnaev is to depart for the US from Dagestan as soon as Friday, human rights activist Kheda Saratova, who is serving as the parents’ representative, said.
PUTIN: BOMBING SHOWS WEST’S MISTAKE
The Boston bombings should spur stronger security cooperation between Moscow and Washington, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, adding they also show that the West was wrong in supporting militants in Chechnya. Putin said, ‘This tragedy should push us closer in fending off common threats, including terrorism, which is one of the biggest and most dangerous of them.’ Putin also warned against trying to find the roots for the Boston tragedy in the suffering endured by the Chechen people, particularly in mass deportations of Chechens to Siberia on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s orders.
SUSPECTS PLANNED TO PARTY IN NEW YORK AFTER ATTACK
The Chechen-origin Boston bombings suspects were headed to New York ‘to party’ after the deadly attacks, city Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said. The lone surviving suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has told investigators from his Boston hospital bed that he and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, wanted to get some rest and recreation after the bombings, which killed three and injured over 200 others. ‘The information that we received said something about partying or having a party,’ Kelly said, citing what Dzhokhar told investigators.The bit of information we have they may have been words to the effect of coming to party in New York,’ he was quoted by the New York Post.
Maryland Representative Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, confirmed the details after a closed-door briefing with three senior national security officials on Capitol Hill. Two Chechen-origin brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarvaev, 19, have been accused of carrying out the deadly Boston Marathon bombings that claimed three lives and injured over 250. Dzhokhar has been charged with conspiring to use ‘weapon of mass destruction’ and faces death penalty. Authorities said the two used a pressure-cooker bomb filled with nails and ball bearings in the attack. Ruppersberger said based on information from Dzhokhar, it appears the brothers learned how to build the bomb from Inspire magazine, a publication founded by Anwar al-Awlaki, the now-deceased al-Qaeda leader.
‘That has always been a concern of ours. That magazine was put out to recruit people for jihad,’ Ruppersberger said. He also gave more details on Russia’s contact with US regarding Tamerlan. Following Russia’s request to FBI regarding Tamerlan, he said US officials asked Russian authorities three times for more information, but never got a response. AGENCIES
FATHER OF SUSPECTS TO FLY TO US
The father of the two Chechen-origin Boston bombings suspects is expected to fly from Russia to the US soon and may bring important information for the probe into the deadly attack. Anzor Tsarnaev is to depart for the US from Dagestan as soon as Friday, human rights activist Kheda Saratova, who is serving as the parents’ representative, said.
PUTIN: BOMBING SHOWS WEST’S MISTAKE
The Boston bombings should spur stronger security cooperation between Moscow and Washington, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, adding they also show that the West was wrong in supporting militants in Chechnya. Putin said, ‘This tragedy should push us closer in fending off common threats, including terrorism, which is one of the biggest and most dangerous of them.’ Putin also warned against trying to find the roots for the Boston tragedy in the suffering endured by the Chechen people, particularly in mass deportations of Chechens to Siberia on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s orders.
SUSPECTS PLANNED TO PARTY IN NEW YORK AFTER ATTACK
The Chechen-origin Boston bombings suspects were headed to New York ‘to party’ after the deadly attacks, city Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said. The lone surviving suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has told investigators from his Boston hospital bed that he and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, wanted to get some rest and recreation after the bombings, which killed three and injured over 200 others. ‘The information that we received said something about partying or having a party,’ Kelly said, citing what Dzhokhar told investigators.The bit of information we have they may have been words to the effect of coming to party in New York,’ he was quoted by the New York Post.
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