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Today Dzhokhar ( Jahar ) Tsarnaev appeared in Boston Federal Court today for the first time since his arrest back in April 2013, for apparently making, placing, and detonating a pressure cooker bomb called a "weapon of mass destruction" by the FBI, at 14:50 hours during the end of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, and pleaded not guilty. The photos below were apparently taken at 755 Bolyston Street in Boston, MA in front of the Forum Restaurant before and immediately after the second explosion.
The teenager who allegedly helped detonate two bombs at the finish line of this year’s Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260, pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges during a brief court appearance Wednesday.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who faces 30 counts, including murder and the use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, made his first public appearance since his arrest on April 19.
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Spectators gathered outside federal court to watch Dzhokhar Tsarnaev arrive for his arraignment.
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A former Massachusetts prosecutor says suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense must shift blame to his older brother.
Dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit and restrained by handcuffs as he entered and left a federal courtroom in Boston, Tsarnaev spoke with a Russian accent as he repeatedly said “not guilty” into a microphone.
The suspect, who had curly, unkempt hair and deep bags under his eyes, appeared bored during the seven-minute hearing, which was attended by dozens of victims and their families, according to wire reports. Although his parents remained in Russia, Tsarnaev’s two sisters, both wearing head scarves, were in the public gallery and he blew them a kiss as he was led away.
Prosecutors claim that Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, hid pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other lethal shrapnel in backpacks close to the marathon finish line on April 15. Prosecutors have not alleged that they had any connections to terrorist groups and they appear to have self-radicalized over the internet.
Krystle Campbell, 29, Lu Lingzi, 23, and Martin Richard, 8, were killed when the two bombs exploded, and more than a dozen of the injured lost limbs. Federal prosecutors are still considering whether or not they will seek the death penalty.
The brothers attempted to flee after they were identified several days after the bombing. Tsarnaev is also charged with the murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier, who was fatally shot while sitting in his police car on April 18.
Parts of Boston were put into lockdown as police launched a major operation to find the pair, and authorities said that Tamerlan was run over by his younger brother as he fled a gun battle. Prosecutors said that contributed to Tamerlan’s death; he had also been shot.
Tsarnaev was later discovered hiding in a bloodstained boat in the garden of a suburban Boston home four days after the blast. According to court documents, he wrote on the walls of the boat: “The US government is killing our innocent civilians. I can’t stand to see such evil go unpunished.”
Tsarnaev showed signs Wednesday that he was still recovering from injuries sustained during the manhunt. His left hand was in a cast and he appeared to have a jaw injury, which meant he could only manage a crooked smile when he looked at his sisters.
Tsarnaev’s court appearance came hours after Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis III called for federal authorities, including the FBI, to share more information on terrorism threats with local police.
Addressing the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Davis said that Boston police were never told that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had traveled to Russia and said there was a “gap” in intelligence sharing.
“I think that if there is information that comes in about a terrorist threat to a particular city, the local officials should have that information,” he said.
Davis said he wasn’t suggesting that “we would have done anything different had we had the information that the FBI had prior to this,” but added that a “full and equal partnership” was needed.
The police chief cited advance planning and “unprecedented levels of coordination” between local, state and federal agencies as the reason Tsarnaev was captured within a few days of the attack.
Speaking at the same hearing, Arthur Kellermann, an expert in disaster management who works for the Rand Corporation, warned that Boston had been been particularly well prepared to cope with a terrorist attack and that other U.S. cities were much less so.
He said there was “ample reason to worry,” highlighting concerns about crowding in emergency rooms in many hospitals across the United States, which he warned would hamper efforts to provide urgent medical care.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/boston-marath...
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(Reuters) - Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is due in court on Wednesday to face charges in the worst mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001, a crime that could bring the death penalty.
The 19-year-old ethnic Chechen was charged late last month with killing three people by setting off homemade pressure-cooker bombs, assembled by him and his older brother, in a crowd of thousands of race spectators on April 15, and later shooting dead a university police officer.
That shooting, and a later gun battle with police in the suburb of Watertown, Massachusetts, led to the death of 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and a day-long lockdown of most of the Boston area as police searched for Dzhokhar, who was found, badly wounded, hiding in a boat in a backyard.
The marathon attack injured about 264 people, with many losing legs.
The biggest challenge for Tsarnaev's attorney, public defender Miriam Conrad, will be sparing him the death penalty, one observer said.
"I suspect that Miriam will start tomorrow by trying to change his image and make him look like the normal, average, clean-cut young kid," said Walter Prince, a former federal prosecutor in Boston who is now a partner with the law firm Prince Lobel. He is not involved in the case.
BRIEF APPEARANCE
Tsarnaev's appearance at U.S. District Court in Boston - the same building where mobster James "Whitey" Bulger is currently on trial - will likely be brief, with Conrad perhaps entering a not guilty plea on his behalf, Prince said.
Conrad did not respond to a request for comment.
According to court papers, Tsarnaev scrawled a note on an inside wall and beams of the boat in which he hid.
"The U.S. Government is killing our innocent civilians," the note read, according to court papers. "We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all."
"Now I don't like killing innocent people it is forbidden in Islam but due to said it is allowed," he wrote, according to court papers. "Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop."
Tsarnaev was badly wounded during the gun battle and arrest. After initially being confined at a city hospital, he was moved to a prison west of Boston. Prosecutors have declined to comment on his current condition or if he is still being held at the Fort Devens, Massachusetts, facility.
The Tsarnaev brothers' ethnic homeland of Chechnya, a mainly Muslim area that saw centuries of war and repression, no longer threatens to secede from Russia. But it has become a breeding ground for a form of militant Islam whose adherents have spread violence to other parts of Russia.
Three people died in the April 15 bombing - 29-year-old restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 23-year-old graduate student Lingzi Lu and 8-year-old Martin Richard.
Three days later the Tsarnaevs shot dead Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, according to the indictment.
(Editing by Carol Bishopric)
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/10/us-usa-explosions-boston-...
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