Boston Bombing Suspects Planned Fourth of July Attacks, Source Says

NYT ^ | 5/2/13 | ERIC SCHMITT, MARK MAZZETTI, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and SCOTT SHANE

[Nachum]

WASHINGTON — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings told F.B.I. interrogators that, as he and his brother plotted their deadly assault, they considered suicide attacks and striking on the Fourth of July, according to two law enforcement officials.

But the suspect,Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told investigators that he and his brother,Tamerlan, 26, who was killed in a shootout with the police, ultimately decided to use pressure-cooker bombs and other homemade explosive devices, the officials said.

The brothers finished building the bombs in Tamerlan’s apartment in Cambridge, Mass., faster than they anticipated, and so decided to accelerate their attack to the Boston Marathon on April 15, Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts, from July, according to the account that Dzhokhar provided authorities. They picked the finish line of the marathon after driving around the Boston area looking for alternative sites, according to this account.

[rwfromkansas]

Have been to this event once. Best 4th of July celebration I’ve ever seen, but needless to say, you could barely walk there are so many people. A bomber there would do a LOT more damage with the same bombs than the marathon.

[VR-21]

Our governments answer to it would have been to do away with the 4th Of July.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Someone let that fat turd Michael Moore know..he blamed the entire bombing on “Tax Day”

[stboz]

We must let the Islamic world know that if attacks occur, there will be consequences.....unimaginable consequences. No more Qum, no more Medina, no more Mecca....period.

[BenLurkin]

All that is going down the “memory hole”

If it hasn’t already.

[Selene]

Boston bombing suspect may never be able to speak
ABC News ^ | 4/22/13
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3011000/posts

[Andy'smom]

They would have killed dozens of people on the Esplanade.

[Hotlanta Mike]

So was the wifey not living in that apartment with her hubbie?

[Selene]

What ever happened to Alharibi?

I looked at his facebook before it was taken down and he had numerous pictures of fireworks, the first one captioned “Look at the bombs”.
There was another picture of a police car at an outdoor mall type area with American flags down the length of the mall (like on 4th of July).

[LA Woman3]

I wonder if the 4th of July attack is on a larger scale? Did they get “permission” to act early?

[Uncle Chip]

Federal authorities are skeptical of Ms. Russell’s insistence that she played no role in the attack or in helping the brothers elude the authorities after the F.B.I. released photos of them. That skepticism has been stoked by Ms. Russell’s decision in recent days to stop cooperating with the authorities.

She's generating a lot of skepticism

[LA Woman3]

Was it the Saudi’s facebook page that had all the firework photos?

[txrefugee]

Where was Tamarlan’s dumb wife if they were making bombs in his apartment? She should be put in jail unless she can prove she was unaware of what was going on in her own home.

[RedMDer]

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[Uncle Chip]

The brothers finished building the bombs in Tamerlan’s apartment in Cambridge, Mass.

So they are building bombs in a small apartment in Cambridge and the wife was where???

[2111USMC]

Female DNA was found on parts of the bomb remnants.

[Uncle Chip]

This was in the article about that:

"According to two other law enforcement officials, Ms. Russell’s fingerprints and DNA do not match those found on the fragments."

[pleasedontzotme]

Because our system was based on those suspected of crimes having to prove their innocence.

[Paladin2]

Put the moon rock back on the moon, along with the 12th mahdi.