Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has indicated to investigators he intended to detonate explosives in Times Square, a senior law enforcement official and a New York City official told CNN.
Earlier, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the brothers may have planned to celebrate the Boston Marathon bombings by driving to New York to "Party."
A man who was carjacked and held hostage -- allegedly by the two brothers -- outside Boston last week said he thought he heard the two men say "Manhattan" in their conversation, which was in a language other than English, the commissioner said. Ref. CNN
It seems like the guy is cooperating, I wonder if he realizes now that he was being used by his brother and he feels bad about what he did?
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Boston suspects' mother also on terrorism list
The mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was added to a federal terrorism database about 18 months before the attack, government officials said yesterday. Ref. Source 9
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He was moved from the hospital to a federal prison medical center. It seems to me that if they did that is because the guy is doing well. Let's see what sort of information we're able to obtain now.
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Russian authorities intercepted a communication in 2011 between the mother of the accused Boston Marathon bombers and someone who may have been one of her sons "Discussing jihad," a U.S. Official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN's Susan Candiotti.
The Russians turned over their intercept of the conversation -- which the official described as vague -- to the FBI only in the past few days, the official said. Ref. CNN