April 26:The Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have planned to come to New York City — but it was just to party, not to continue their reign of terror, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told authorities in Boston he and his brother Tamerlan, 26, wanted to punctuate their day of terror by heading to the Big Apple for some fun, Kelly said.
NY Daily News
Kelly is going to find himself shut out in his own town if he isn't careful.Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, has said that the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square.
Speaking at a joint press conference on Thursday with Police Commissioner Raymon Kelly, Bloomberg said that the Tsarnaev brothers had a pressure cooker bomb and five pipe bombs they intended to set off.
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"The surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," Bloomberg said at New York City Hall.
"He and his older brother intended to drive to New York and detonate those explosives in Times Square."
The mayor said that Dzhokhar told Boston investigators from his hospital bed that he and his brother Tamerlan had discussed "spontaneously" going to New York to detonate their remaining explosives.
alJazeera
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE:
Possibly related?
It just got “real”.
“The U.S. Marshals Service confirms that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been transported from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is now confined at the Bureau of Prisons facility FMC Devens at Ft. Devens, Mass.,” U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade said in a statement to Reuters.
The Hill
UPDATE 8:30 am:
Indeed.This sounds just a tad hinky. If they intended to bomb Times Square, the two of them had at least 48 hours to get out of town to do it before anyone knew who they were. The story now is that, with the net closing in around them, they decide spontaneously, and in what evidently was the beginning of an extended criminal panic, to 'jack a car and drive to New York, not to escape the oncoming dragnet, but to commit more acts of terrorism. They were going to steal a car, take it to Watertown, load it up with the IED's they had stashed there, and then drive off to Gotham. And this was the plan they came up with on the spot last Thursday? I suppose it's plausible but, in the face of the news this morning that Dzhokar Tsarnaev didn't even have a weapon during the siege on Franklin Street, I'm beginning to wonder what to think here, and who's talking to whom, and why.
Charlie Pierce
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