Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has
started talking, and he said some interesting things. He informed investigators
that he and his brother were not directed by a foreign terrorist organization.
Instead, they were “self-radicalized” and motivated to kill, in part, by U.S.
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported.
The 19-year-old also acknowledged his role in the attack
while being questioned by investigators in his hospital bed, the report said.
Tsarnaev, who has a gunshot wound to the throat and was sedated, responded in
writing. He also suffered gunshot wounds in the head, neck, legs and hand
during a late-night shootout in Watertown, Mass.
Meanwhile, Tsarnaev's condition is improving, the FBI
said on Tuesday. The college student, who had been listed in serious condition
at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center since his capture on Friday, is now in
fair condition, the bureau said.
The update comes a day after Tsarnaev was charged with
two federal counts of using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, injure and
cause widespread damage at the marathon. Tsarnaev was informed of the charges
and read his rights in his hospital room on Monday morning, and placed in the
custody the U.S. Marshal Service. If convicted, he could face the death
penalty.
Three people were killed and more than 200 others wounded
when two powerful homemade bombs exploded near the race’s finish line. Dzhokhar
and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed by police as the
two attempted to avoid capture, are suspected of planting those bombs.
Tamerlan was an ardent reader of jihadist websites and
extremist propaganda, U.S. officials told the Associated Press, suggesting the
brothers were motivated by an anti-American, radical version of Islam.
Meanwhile, U.S. investigators traveled to southern Russia
on Tuesday to speak to the parents of the brothers, a U.S. Embassy official
told the news service. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the suspects, and
their father, Anzor, are in Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim province in
Russia's Caucasus.
After the bombings, Anzor said he believed the brothers
were set up and called Dzhokhar a "true angel." Maret Tsarnaeva, the
brothers' aunt, who lives in Toronto, also said she believes her nephews were
framed.
Family members are not the only ones expressing doubt. Many
Twitter users have been expressing support for Dzhokhar using the hashtag
#freejahar. And just like the conspiracy theorists who claimed last week that
the Boston Marathon attacks were staged, the support for Dzhokhar has been
fervent despite his reported confession.
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