Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts, left a handwritten message describing the attack as retribution for US wars in Muslim countries, CBSNews reported on Thursday.
The CBS News report, citing anonymous sources, said that Tsarnaev used a pen to write the message on an interior wall of the boat, where police found him bleeding from gunshot wounds four days after the April 15 bombing. The note summed up with the idea that “when you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims,” CBS News reported.
CBS News did not make clear how its sources knew the information, and Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the report. A spokeswoman for the FBI in Boston, Katherine Gulotta, declined to confirm or deny the report.
More details on the Boston case.
Boston Marathon bombing survivor takes part in Bruins’ pre-game
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The Boston Bruins decided to make Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman Game 2′s honorary fan banner captain on Saturday.
Bauman is the survivor who reportedly gave investigators the tip that led to the suspects. And he’s awesome.
Typically on a big story with a lot of risk behind it, we tend to wait until there are as many as three different news organizations reporting it. In this case there were three reporting it, but we saw others saying that there were no arrests or that they had no knowledge of arrests. So there was enough conflict from other news organizations for us to wait just one more beat. At that point we made a very difficult and agonizing decision just to sit and watch. And for Breaking News that was a very difficult thing to do, and I have to give a big shout-out to our editors who made that decision under the pressure to go.Breaking News’ general manager Cory Bergman • Discussing how his team handled the mistaken reporting regarding the Boston bombing suspects — reporting that ensnared CNN and the Associated Press, among others. Describing the platform’s approach, he says, “With us it’s interesting — there’s pressure to be second.” The NBC-owned platform, which is on every major social network, recently launched native advertising in its mobile app.
Three new suspects were taken into custody in the investigation of last month’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing and will face charges of interfering with the probe, not planning or carrying out the attack, police and a U.S. law enforcement source said on Wednesday.
Two of the suspects were university classmates of 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has been criminally charged with planting homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the marathon finish line on April 15 along with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The U.S. law enforcement source said that two of the suspects are being held by immigration officials for violating the terms of their visas. The source said they are likely to face charges related to obstruction of justice and with making false statements to investigators.
Big new development in the criminal investigation of last month’s Boston Marathon bombing.
Boston suspect: We learned how to make bombs from Inspire magazine
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The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon attack has told investigators that he and his brother got instructions on building bombs from an online magazine published by al Qaeda, federal law enforcement officials told NBC News.
And people say the magazine format doesn’t work anymore.
Let me start this post by saying that I’m not anti-cop. I’m not afraid of cops with M4s and armored vehicles (although I wish more private citizens had them too!). I’m actually quite glad that the cops had a massive amount of firepower this week to deal with the Boston marathon bombers.
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Whether you agree with this, the anonymous “Poor Richard” asks a lot of good questions worth considering.
With so many readers turning to BostonGlobe.com for breaking news throughout the day, we have added a live blog on the home page that provides breaking news and critical information in a format that makes it easy to share stories through social media, reinforcing BostonGlobe.com’s role as the go-to destination for timely, accurate, in-depth coverage for everyone.
The site’s paywall, which has been turned off the past few days as a result of the bombing and the unprecedented city shutdown, is separate from the online-only Boston.com.
A Boston officer shot and wounded in pursuit of the marathon bombing suspects last week had to be resuscitated after his heart stopped and he lost his entire blood supply, but doctors and relatives on Sunday said he was emerging from sedation and expected to recover.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Officer Richard “Dick” Donohue Jr., 33, of Woburn, Mass., had served with the department for three years when he responded to a call Friday for assistance after a shooting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, officials said. They said it was not clear whether Donohue knew at the time that the MIT officer who had been shot and killed was a friend of his, Sean Collier.
Donohue emerged from his police car and exchanged fire with the suspects before he was shot in the right thigh, officials said. A bullet severed his femoral vein and artery, and Donohue began to bleed out, doctors said.
Thanks to some quick handiwork, officers doctors were able to give Donohue a transfusion, stop the bleeding and likely save his leg. “As a brother, fellow officer and American, I cannot describe the pride I felt in what Dick and other officers did that Friday morning,” said his brother Edward, a fellow policeman.
The hardest part of this was how far from any actual evidence there actually was, and how quickly and how painfully this traveled…We find it incredibly unfortunate that media outlets were so quick to jump without checking with authorities, but we hope they use the same energy and intensity they showed in the past 24 hours to really help us find Sunil.We spoke with Sangeeta Tripathi, whose innocent brother Sunil was made into a Boston Marathon bombing suspect by social media and news organizations. (via motherjones)
We have confidence in London. We put on the Olympics, so we can do this.London Marathon observer Nicola Selwood • Discussing the London Marathon, taking place less than a week after the Boston Marathon bombing incident. Despite this, the incident is going on as planned, though with higher security. As part of the event, a campaign among runners is picking up steam, recommending that, as runners cross the finish line, they put their hands over their hearts.
Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
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Rupert Murdoch Defends NY Post‘s Boston Bombing Coverage On Twitter
Rupert Murdoch, getting roasted on Twitter for defending his New York Post’s running of a picture of two young men at the Boston marathon under the headline “BAG MEN.” In a classic case of journalistic gun-jumping, the men were not involved in the plot — one was a 17-year-old track runner from Revere High School who was forced to voluntarily approach authorities to clear his name. The comment of Murdoch’s that’s spurred the most derision, it seems, is that the Post withdrew the pictures when the FBI went another direction, a claim hard to decipher as pertains to one of the nation’s highest circulation print newspapers.
Say what you will about Harvard kids — and their ecstatic band members — but they deserve some applause themselves for stopping to applaud the dining hall staff that braved a city-wide lockdown and all-out manhunt to do their jobs. It looks like chopped onions were on the menu today.
Needed this today. Pure heartwarm.
Martin Richard, 8, Dorchester, Massachusetts
Lu Lingzi, 23, Shenyang, China
Krystle Campbell, 29, Arlington, Massachusetts
Sean Collier, 26, Somerville, Massachusetts
Let’s not forget the victims here.
It’s over! Suspect is custody!
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