Breaking: Explosion Reported at Boston Marathon's Finish Line

[Jan Klimkowski]

Oooh - lookee here.

A late scripting of the Marina Oswald legendary tall tale:

Katherine Russell Tsarnaev: Terrified Of Alleged Boston Bomber Husband, Tamerlan Tsarnaev

04/25/2013

Katherine Russell, the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was reportedly emotionally and physically abused by him from the early days of their relationship.

Three of Russell's former college roommates attested to Tsarnaev's bullying and manipulative behavior. In addition to hurling insults at her, including "slut" and "prostitute," he would also throw furniture and other objects at her when he would become enraged, unnamed roommates told NPR.

Russell and Tsarnaev began their on-and-off relationship in 2007, when the former was a freshman at Suffolk University. During one of their "off" periods in 2009, Tsarnaev was charged with assault and battery after a violent domestic dispute with another girlfriend, Nadine Asceucal. His tendency to get physical was not apparent during the early phase of his relationship with Russell. The roommates claim that it was around 2008 or 2009 that he seemed to change.

At that point in time, the aspiring Olympic boxer, developed a stronger commitment to Islam and stopped smoking and drinking. More importantly, he espoused views that registered as extreme to Russell's roommates, as he began to express anti-American sentiment and the feeling that Islam was being disparaged.

Once pregnant with Tsarnaev's child, Russell dropped out of her senior year of college to convert to Islam and marry the child's father. Zahara, their daughter, is now 3-years-old.

Today show therapist Dr. Gild Carle, believes that Russell was afraid of leaving her abusive husband. "Katherine Russell fell for Tamerlan, became pregnant, and obviously thought there was no way out. So she swallowed the bullet, married him, and converted to his religion," she told HollywoodLife.com. "Nothing suited him, and whenever a glimpse of self began to rise, she got into screaming matches with him, [...] he had temper tantrums, throwing things, including furniture, at her.

It's particularly fascinating how long it's taken to get any sort of semi-credible story out there for Katherine Russell.

Looks like They've plumped for emotionally and physically battered and abused woman incapable of independent thought or action.[/i]

Assuming that "Today show therapist Dr. Gild Carle" has never met or treated Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, her opinion bears no meaningful weight.

[Peter Lemkin]

What!? No Backyard Photos?! [Yet]

As evil as these forces are, they use the same scripts and M.O. over and over and over, with very tiny variations. Neo-Fascists obviously lack creativity and can't think for themselves, it seems.

[Jan Klimkowski]

The technical term for this is LOOSE END.

I suspect this news will get buried.

Or perhaps drowned.....

Whatever the truth may be, Sunil Tripathi's friends and family are grieving.

Body pulled from Providence Harbor is missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi

22-year-old missing since March was wrongly identified by online sleuths as a suspected Boston Marathon bomber

Associated Press in Providence
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 25 April 2013 18.40 BST
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Sunil Tripathi
Reddit later apologized to Tripathi's family for fueling "online witch hunts and dangerous speculation". Photograph: Brown University/Reuters

A body pulled from waters off a Providence park was that of a 22-year-old Brown University student missing since last month, the Rhode Island medical examiner's office said Thursday.

Sunil Tripathi was identified through a forensic dental exam, but a cause of death has not been determined, said Dara Chadwick, a spokeswoman for the state health department.

The announcement put an end to the mystery of Tripathi's disappearance, which became doubly painful for his family when amateur online sleuths wrongly identified him as a possible suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Tripathi's family, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, said they were overcome with grief but grateful for the outpouring of support relatives got over the last month.

"As we carry indescribable grief, we also feel incredible gratitude," the Tripathi family said in a statement on a Facebook page set up to help find Tripathi, who went by Sunny. "To each one of you from our hometown to many distant lands we extend our thanks for the words of encouragement, for your thoughts, for your hands, for your prayers, and for the love you have so generously shared."

Tripathi's body was found Tuesday by members of the Brown crew team off of India Point Park and was brought to shore by its coach, Providence police Cmdr Thomas Oates said. He said the body had been in the water for "some time".

Tripathi's family had been searching for him since mid-March with help from the FBI and fellow Brown students. His sister, Sangeeta, said he left his phone, wallet and other belongings in his apartment near campus and simply disappeared. He was on leave from the Ivy League school, where he was studying philosophy, and had been going through a difficult time, she said.

Last week, speculation swirled on Twitter and the website Reddit that Tripathi was the second of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings because some thought he resembled one of the people in photos released by the FBI. That person turned out to be 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, authorities said.

Reddit later apologized to Tripathi's family for fueling "online witch hunts and dangerous speculation which spiraled into very negative consequences for innocent parties."

Tripathi's family responded to the speculation in a Facebook post that read: "A tremendous and painful amount of attention has been cast on our beloved Sunil Tripathi in the past 12 hours. We have known unequivocally all along that neither individual suspected as responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings was Sunil."

The family said in its statement Thursday that the last month "has changed our lives forever, and we hope it will change yours too".

The family went on: "Take care of one another. Be gentle, be compassionate. Be open to letting someone in when it is you who is faltering. Lend your hand. We need it. The world needs it."

Brown president Christina H Paxson sent a message to the campus community Thursday, saying Tripathi the brother of two Brown graduates would be remembered for his "gentle demeanor and generous spirit." She described him as an accomplished saxophonist and a "serious, thoughtful, intellectually curious student and a brilliant writer"

[Jan Klimkowski]

Maybe or maybe not reliable. Certainly no love lost between Russia and Georgia but the Russian authorities have repeatedly told the US authorities about the older brother and nothing was done. A hands off policy. It is also picked up by other media in the area including Georgia. Of course it is denied by the foundation but then it would wouldn't it? More of the Jamestown Foundation here.

Tamerlane Tsarnaev. Photo: REUTERS / Julia Malakie / The Sun of Lowell, Mass. / Handout

At the disposal of "Izvestia" has documents Counterintelligence Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, confirming that the Georgian organization "Fund of Caucasus", which cooperates with the U.S. non-profit organization "Jamestown" (the board of directors of NGOs previously entered one of the ideologists of U.S. foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski), was engaged in recruiting residents North Caucasus to work in the interests of the United States and Georgia.

According to the reports of Colonel Chief Directorate Counterintelligence Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia Gregory Chanturia to the Minister of Internal Affairs Irakli Garibashvili, "Caucasian fund" in cooperation with the Foundation "Jamestown" in the summer of 2012 conducted workshops and seminars for young people of the Caucasus, including its Russian part. Some of them attended Tsarnaev Tamerlane, who was in Russia from January to July 2012.

How do you spell GEO - POL - I - TICS?

Howzabout ZBIG - NIEW - BRZE - ZIN - SKI?

Whilst we're at it, take a look at the geopolitical CVs of the current Jamestown Foundation Board:

Board Members

Matthew Bryza

Board Member

Matthew Bryza just completed a 23-year career as a U.S. diplomat, over half of which was spent at the center of policy-making and international negotiations on major energy infrastructure projects and regional conflicts in Eurasia. His most recent assignment was as U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan from February 2011 to January 2012. Between 2005 and 2009, Bryza served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, with responsibility for Eurasian Energy, the South Caucasus, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. Bryza simultaneously served as the U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE's Minsk Group mediating the Karabakh conflict, and as U.S. mediator of the Cyprus, South Ossetia and Abkhazia conflicts. From 2001 to 2005, Bryza served in the White House as Director for European and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff. His responsibilities included Eurasian energy, the South Caucasus, Central Asia and political Islam in Eurasia. Previous assignments include Deputy to the Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Caspian Energy, Advisor on Economic Reform in the South Caucasus and Central Asia, and Russia Desk Officer at the State Department, as well as Political Officer at the U.S. Missions to Russia (1995-97) and Poland (1989-91). Currently Ambassador Bryza resides in Istanbul, Turkey, where he also works as a consultant on business and democratic development and is a board member of several private companies.

James H. Burnley

Vice Chairman

No further information.

Willem de Vogel

Chairman

Willem de Vogel was born in 1950 in The Netherlands. After completing high school there, he spent two years at Atlantic College in Wales. He studied Political Sciences at the University of Geneva and graduated with a Licence es Sciences Politiques from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales. From there he went to the University of Chicago from which he graduated with an MBA in 1975. After a short period working for a major bank, Willem was asked to start the Private Equity activity of Three Cities Research, Inc. Willem led that activity until 2004, when he became the Senior Partner and handed over the leadership to his partner. Willem has served on many corporate boards in the U.S. and in Europe. He also has served and continues to serve on a number of not-for-profit boards. Besides his remaining corporate and not-for-profit interests, he is an avid outdoorsman. He lives in upstate New York.

Carlton W. Fulford, Jr.

General, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)

General Fulford presently consults with U.S. government and other private organizations on security matters. He served as Director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a Department of Defense regional center, from 2003-2006.

James G. Gidwitz

Board Member

No further information.

Patrick W. Gross

Board Member

Pat Gross is chairman of The Lovell Group, a business and technology advisory and investment firm he formed after stepping down as chairman of the executive committee of American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) in 2002. AMS is a billion dollar revenue consulting and IT services firm which he founded with four colleagues in 1970. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the firm assisting with major client engagements and relationships.

James Hauslein

Board Member

Mr. Hauslein is currently Managing Director of Hauslein & Company, Inc., a private equity firm and was previously, until May 2001, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sunglass Hut International, Inc. From 1987 to 2001 Mr. Hauslein was a principal shareholder and from 1991-2001 served as Chairman of the Board of Sunglass Hut International, Inc., the world's largest specialty retailer of non-prescription sunglasses and significant retailer of popular price point fashion watches, with almost 2,000 company-owned Sunglass Hut, Watch Station, Watch World and combination stores in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.

Michael V. Hayden

General, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

General Michael V. Hayden (USAF Ret.) served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009 and was responsible for overseeing the collection of information concerning the plans, intentions and capabilities of America's adversaries, producing timely analysis for decision makers, and conducting covert operations to thwart terrorists and other enemies of the United States. Before becoming Director of the CIA, General Hayden served as the country's first Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence and was the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the armed forces. Earlier, he served as Commander of the Air Intelligence Agency, Director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center, Director of the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005, and Chief of the Central Security Service. General Hayden graduated from Duquesne University with a bachelor's degree in history in 1967 and a master's degree in modern American history in 1969. He was a distinguished graduate of the university's ROTC program, and began his active military service in 1969. General Hayden is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group in Washington DC.

Bruce Hoffman

Board Member

Professor Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for more than thirty years. He is currently a tenured professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND's Washington, D.C. Office. From 2001 to 2004, he served as RAND's Vice President for External Affairs and in 2004 he also was Acting Director of RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy.

Frank Keating

Board Member

Governor Frank Keating took over as president and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers in January 2003 after serving two terms as Oklahoma's 25th governor. As president and CEO of ACLI, Governor Keating is the chief representative and spokesman for the life insurance industry in Washington, D.C., and all 50 state capitals. He and his staff work as advocates for nearly 400 life insurance companies that account for 93 percent of total industry assets, 91 percent of the life insurance premiums, and 95 percent of annuity considerations in the United States.

Timothy Keating

Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.)

Admiral Timothy Keating is a highly decorated, retired Admiral in the U.S. Navy and the former Commander of the United States Pacific Command (CINCPAC), where he worked to preserve the security of our nation across the Asia-Pacific region. Previously he served as Commander of the United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM), responsible for protecting the United States homeland and providing support to federal, state and local officials in times of crisis. During this same time, he also served as Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), providing aerospace warning, air sovereignty and defense for the United States and Canada.

Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland

Board Member

Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland is a national security commentator and former top Pentagon official in the Reagan administration. She is a contributing editor with a weekly column on FamilySecurityMatters.org and is a monthly columnist for The NY Capitol newspaper. Her frequent guest appearances include: Fox News (The Live Desk, Fox & Friends, Studio B, Hannity & Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, Your World); MSNBC (Hardball with Chris Matthews); NY1, ABC, CBS, CNN. She is also a frequent commentator on Fox News Radio, WVOX, NPR, Radio America, ABC Radio, and CBS Radio.

Woody N. Peterson

General Counsel, Secretary

Woody Peterson is a partner at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP and is a member of the Firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. Mr. Peterson's practice focuses on litigation (civil and appellate) and on employment law counseling for corporations, trade associations, and non-profit organizations.

Bruce Riedel

Board Member

Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He retired in 2006 after 30 years of service at the Central Intelligence Agency including postings overseas. Mr. Riedel was a senior advisor on South Asia and the Middle East to four Presidents of the United States in the staff of the National Security Council at the White House. He was a negotiator at several Arab-Israeli peace summits including Camp David and Wye River. He was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Near East and South Asia at the Pentagon and a senior advisor at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels. In January 2009 President Barack Obama asked him to chair a review of American policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, the results of which the President announced in a speech on March 27, 2009. Mr. Riedel is the author of The Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology and Future and Deadly Embrace; Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad published by Brookings Press. He teaches at Georgetown University and SAIS.

Clinton I. Smullyan

Board Member

No further information.

Robert Spring

Board Member

No further information.

Michelle Van Cleave

Board Member

Michelle Van Cleave, a member of Jamestown's Board of Directors, served as the National Counterintelligence Executive under President George W. Bush. As the head of U.S. counterintelligence, she was responsible for providing strategic direction to and ensuring the integration of counterintelligence activities across the federal government. She has also held senior staff positions in the Congress, including staff director of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information, Minority Counsel to the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, and professional staff member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations; and in the White House, where she was Assistant Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. A lawyer and consultant in private life, she is currently a principal with the Jack Kemp Foundation, helping to establish and manage programs to develop, engage and recognize exceptional leaders.

Arthur Waldron

Board Member

Arthur Waldron is the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Since the Jamestown Foundation are curiously ignorant of the CVs of many of their board, let's do a little research for them:

James H. Burnley

Vice Chairman

No further information.

Wiki tells us that;

James Horace Burnley IV (30 July 1948, Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American politician and lawyer.

He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts and got his Juris Doctor from Harvard University in 1973. From 1983 to 1987 he served as Deputy Secretary of Transportation until he became U.S. Secretary of Transportation outright from 1987 to 1989. In 1996, he was a senior advisor to Robert Dole's Presidential campaign.

He later served on the board of directors of Infrasoft, Inc. From 2001 to at least 2003 he worked as a lobbyist for the airline industry.

Burnley is on the board of FreedomWorks.

So, Burnley IV was a government minister under Reagan.

"FreedomWorks" eh?

Sourcewatch tells us that:

FreedomWorks is a non-profit organization heavily involved with the Tea Party movement.[1] It does not disclose its corporate donors, and its leaders are drawn heavily from the leadership of the Republican party and right-wing operatives. In 2006, the Washington Post revealed that from 2001 - 2006 FreedomWorks engaged in a hidden deal with insurance brokers whereby the brokers would sell high-deductible insurance policies and tax-free medical savings plans to individuals at a group discount, and those who purchased the plans would automatically be added FreedomWorks membership list. Customers unaware of the membership arrangement, for which they were charged extra fees. Membership was a condition of getting the discounted insurance plan. The arrangement was credited with helping increase the number of "members" FreedomWorks could claim belonged to the organization. About 16,000 people "joined" the organization in this manner, causing $638,040 to flow into FreedomWorks's coffers over 5 1/2 years in the form of monthly checks for "association fees" collected by the Medical Savings Insurance Company, that were forwarded to FreedomWorks.

And that funders included:

Funders in 2007 were:[48]

Armstrong Foundation, $20,000 for Economic Education and policy analysis
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, $80,000 ($50,000 To support the work of the Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States, $30,000 to support general operations)
Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, $100,000
Sarah Scaife Foundation, $200,000
Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, $20,000

Bradleys and Scaifes, eh?

RightwingWatch adds:

Purpose

FreedomWorks avows that its mission is to advocate for "lower taxes, less government and more economic freedom for all Americans," by "combin[ing] the stature and experience of America's greatest policy entrepreneurs with the grassroots power of hundreds of thousands of volunteer activists."

Its "freedom agenda" is headed by privatizing Social Security, implementing a flat tax and abolishing the estate tax, limiting tort liability, and expanding school vouchers. Other issues FreedomWorks is involved in include judicial nominations (it favors eliminating the filibuster), industrial and environmental regulation, immigration, and welfare.

And:

President George W. Bush: "Folks, you've got to get to know this organization ... They have been doing a great job all over the country educating people."

Nothing to see here.

Move along....

[Jan Klimkowski]

Some more interesting relationships...

Why wouldn't your membership of the Hoover Institution be noted?

Hoover Institution
Conservative think tank at Stanford

Hoover Institution - Board of Overseers


Parent Organization
Stanford University

Leadership & Staff board & execs »
1-10 of 145 :: see all
Condoleezza Rice National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under George W...
Fellow (past)
Clayton W Frye Jr
Board Member
Jeffrey A Farber
Board Member
Stephen B Gaddis
Board Member
James G Gidwitz
Board Member
F Philip Handy CEO of Strategic Industries
Board Member
Arthur E Hall
Board Member
Cynthia Fry Gunn
Board Member
Charles H Esserman
Board Member
Leonard W Ely
Board Member
Recipients
Thomas B Fordham Institute
Grant

Donors
Sarah Scaife Foundation Conservative funding juggernaut
Grant â‹… $300000 ('09)
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation The Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation,...
Grant â‹… $100000 ('10)

[Jan Klimkowski]

Just the one gun....

Meanwhile Volkland Security is banging on about Syria having used chemical weapons with highly dubious "evidence".

It's the old Magick trick: look over here, whilst I perpetrate my sleight of hand in full sight....

Single Gun Recovered From Accused Bombers


PHOTO: This April 15, 2013 photo provided by Bob Leonard shows third from left, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was dubbed Suspect No. 1 and second from left, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, who was dubbed Suspect No. 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings by law enforcement. T
Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Mystery Surrounds Boston Bombing Suspect


By JACK DATE and MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk)
April 24, 2013

Even though the Tsarnaev brothers made a violent dash from police, allegedly tossing homemade bombs as they fled, police told ABC News they so far have recovered only a single, semi-automatic handgun from the two men now accused of carrying off the Boston Marathon bombing.

The gun, presumably wielded by the older of the two brothers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was recovered by police at the shoot-out scene in Watertown, Mass., and is now with the Massachusetts State Police. Sources told ABC News that no guns were recovered from the boat where 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was eventually apprehended after a stand-off with police.


Law enforcement sources told ABC News the gun recovered from the scene of the Tsarnaev brothers' shoot out with police was a Ruger 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. Sources said the gun is in the custody of the Massachusetts State Police lab and that the serial number on the firearm was obliterated.

Investigators have techniques to raise serial numbers after they have been obliterated so they can be read. Investigators would use the serial numbers to conduct urgent traces on the gun to determine where and how it was purchased.

The Tsarnaev brothers' apparent lack of firearms has led some investigators to theorize that the attack on MIT police officer Sean Collier, in which they allegedly ambushed the officer and shot him five times in the head, was an attempt to arm themselves, officials said.

More details continued to emerge about the violent events that unfolded after the FBI released photos of the men they believed planted the two bombs, killing three and injuring more than 250 marathon spectators, and about the victims of the attack.

Recent figures indicate that 34 people remain hospitalized, with one victim in critical condition.

Also Tuesday, a U.S. official confirmed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev's name was placed on the National Counter Terrorism Center's database, as first reported by the Washington Post. The official said having a name being placed in the overall database does not mean the person is considered a threat. Agencies can nominate individuals to go into the database for varying reasons.

Law enforcement officials told ABC News that it now appears that Tamerlan Tsarnaev began gathering materials for the explosives at least two months ago, when he was spotted at a New Hampshire fireworks store. The store told the FBI that it sold $400-worth of fireworks in February to the accused Boston bomber.

The gunpowder in fireworks is often used in bombs.

"He just wanted the biggest, loudest stuff we had in the store," said Megan Kearns, the assistant manager of Phantom Fireworks, in an interview with ABC News affiliate WMUR.

Kearns said Tsarnaev -- the older of the two brothers now accused in the blast -- bought two large reloadable mortar kits during a two-for-one sale. She said she remembered Tamerlan because of his Russian accent. The store has since confirmed his purchase with store records.

"Pretty much the only thing that was remarkable about him was that he had a Russian accent, which we don't get too many people in here who have Russian accents," she said.

The amount of gunpowder that could be harvested from the kits -- less than half a pound -- would not have been enough to detonate the Boston bombs, Phantom Fireworks VP William Weimer said.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Hmmm - what's this forgotten grocery store photo?

The brothers robbing the store?

Or just going shopping?

Looks like Red Bull and Doritos in those hands....

[Magda Hassan]

Hmmm - what's this forgotten grocery store photo?

The brothers robbing the store?

Or just going shopping?

Looks like Red Bull and Doritos in those hands....

Red Bull gives you wings...
I'd be getting my money back if I were him.

[Lauren Johnson]

The new story line is that they were going to blow up their bombs at the Boston Marathon and then drive to NYC and blow up the rest at Times Square. Motive? None so far. No connection to terrorist groups. I guess they just wanted to blow shit up.

From CBSNew:

The plan fell apart after the Tsarnaev brothers were intercepted by police in a stolen car and got into a fierce gun battle that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead, Kelly said.

"We don't know if we would have been able to stop the terrorists had they arrived here from Boston," Bloomberg said. "We're just thankful that we didn't have to find out that answer."

CBS News correspondent John Miller reported that from the moment the NYPD understood that the explosions at the Boston Marathon were the result of a bombing, they snapped into place a well-honed plan. It's called the CRV, critical vehicle response, and it involves flooding anything that could be the next possible target with an overwhelming show of force. That show of force was Times Square. It's part of a strategy to help prevent coordinated attacks at multiple locations.

As for what Commissioner Kelly meant by the brothers being spontaneous, Miller said that once they Were identified they knew things had to speed up. "So they went from being organized bombers to disorganized bombers," said Miller. "And I guess the irony here is if they had actually completed their drive to Times Square to place their bombs, what they would have run into wasa couple of hundred cops waiting for them."

Dzhokhar, 19, is charged with carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260, and he could get the death penalty.

Kelly, citing interrogations carried out by the task force investigating the Boston Marathon attack, said that days after the bombing, the Tsarnaev brothers "planned to travel to Manhattan to detonate their remaining explosives in Times Square."

"They discussed this while driving around in a Mercedes SUV that they hijacked after they shot and killed the officer at MIT," the police commissioner said. "That plan, however, fell apart when they realized that the vehicle they hijacked was low on gas and ordered the driver to stop at a nearby gas station."

The driver escaped and called police, Kelly said. That set off the gunbattle and manhunt that ended a day later with Dzhokhar captured and 26-year-old Tamerlan dead.

Miller reported that the amount of fuel in the car's tank wasn't the major obstacle in the brothers' plan.
"It wasn't but for a tank of gas in the car," said Miller. "It was but for running into a bunch of cops with 200 machine guns."

On Tuesday, Miller reported on "CBS This Morning" that, according to investigators, the carjacking victim speaks little to no English, but authorities pressed him to remember recognizable words from his exchange with the bombing suspects.

The suspects openly boasted to the victim in English about their role in last week's bombing and carried out the rest of their exchange in Russian, Miller reported.

Miller reported that the victim said, "The only word I recognized was Manhattan," a word which "tripped a lot" of alarm for authorities, who quickly halted Amtrak service from Boston to New York and searched the trains.
The tip prompted the New York Police Department to "flip on its network of license plate readers at all bridges and tunnels coming into the city," Miller said. "They loaded all the license plates associated with these guys" to prevent possible entry into Manhattan.

On Wednesday, Kelly told reporters that he was told Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have been intending to come to New York to party, or for a party, sometime after the bombings.

After his arrest, Dzhokhar was interrogated in his hospital room over a period of 16 hours without being read his constitutional rights. He immediately stopped talking after a magistrate judge and a representative from the U.S. attorney's office entered the room and gave him his Miranda warning, a U.S. law enforcement official and others briefed on the interrogation told The Associated Press.

Tamerlan had come under scrutiny from the FBI, the CIA and Russian intelligence well before the Boston attack. The CIA had added Tamerlan's name to a terrorist database 18 months ago, after Russian intelligence flagged him as a possible Muslim radical, a U.S. official told Miller Thursday.

And from NPR:

The FBI believes that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who authorities say were behind the Boston bombings, wanted to travel to New York City last Friday and detonate more explosives in Times Square, . New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly added that, under questioning, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators of the plan. Their alleged plan was foiled, Kelly said, when the SUV they had carjacked ran low on fuel and they had to stop for gas. When the driver they had taken hostage escaped, that alerted authorities to the suspects' whereabouts and lead to the gun battle and subsequent search in Watertown, Mass., that ended with Tamerlan dead and Dzhokhar in custody.

The comments from Bloomberg and Kelly that the victim of the carjacking had told authorities the suspects wanted to go to New York City.

Update at 1:45 p.m. ET. Report: Russian Officials Said Tamerlan Tsarnaev Had No Known Contact With Terrorist Groups.

"Russia has informed the United States that it knew of no contact between Tamerlan Tsarnaev and any known terrorist groups during his six-month trip to Dagestan in 2012, according to an official who attended a closed-door Senate briefing Thursday morning by top counterterrorism officials."

NPR with audio: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013...velopments