Dzhokar: Boston bombing victims were "collateral damage" like those killed by the U.S

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Boston bombing suspect wrote message in boat: CBS News report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 U.S. wars in Muslim countries, CBS News 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.

The CBS News report said Tsarnaev, 19, described his older brother and fellow suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who died in a gunbattle with police, as "a martyr."

"Basically, the note says ... the bombings were retribution for the U.S. crimes against Muslims in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and that the victims of the Boston bombing were 'collateral damage,' the same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in U.S. wars around the world," said CBS News reporter John Miller, who is a former spokesman for the FBI.

The bombings at the finish line of the world-famous marathon killed three people and injured 264 others. The FBI identified the ethnic Chechen brothers as suspects from video and pictures at the scene.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested in Watertown, Massachusetts, on April 19 after a daylong manhunt and lockdown of much of the Boston area. He is being held in a prison hospital west of Boston and faces charges that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been on a U.S. government database of potential terrorism suspects and the United States had twice been warned by Russia that he might be an Islamic militant, according to U.S. security officials.

 

[Mr. Pink]

Can't really argue the point.

 

[the mechanic]

Boston bombing suspect wrote message in boat: CBS News report

More proof of the damage religion does to the brain....

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

And when you kill one american, we kill your brother, shoot you up and execute you.

Enjoy your fate Dzhokar.

 

[YouMadd?]

So if the people were "collateral damage", then what was the primary target? The sidewalk?

 

[Blackking]

Golden State Warriors will make a come back... And what do they mean, "they've discovered that he left a note" ? They didn't already know this when they examined the crime scene?

They verified the handwriting?? There was a random pen in the boat?? Why aren't they showing pics of the actual note... I guess it had bullet holes in it, where is the pics of it?

did they really have to shoot the boat up 100's of times when they knew he was in it?

Crazy that him and his brother planned this by themselves... and not because of a group.

 

[daze23]

it's not "collateral damage" when they were the intended targets

 

[NubianVitruvian]

when does it end?

 

[Blackking]

when does it end?

I'm assuming when western imperialism ends.... but I'm not 100% sure on that.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

So if the people were "collateral damage", then what was the primary target? The sidewalk?

it's not "collateral damage" when they were the intended targets

I agree, that doesn't make any any sense.

But I think an important point is does it really even matter when you have thousands of innocent people dead over wars that are seemingly pointless and counterproductive?

I don't think when people look at those horrific images of Boston with people legless with bones sticking out and pools of blood everywhere, they really make the human connection in regard to this happening when we bomb people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen, and it happens in exponentially higher numbers.

 

[jadillac]

Can't say I disagree with that logic.

We go around bombing any and everything....innocent children, warehouses where ppl work, peoples homes.....and it's never discussed on American TV b/c the truth is ugly.

The USA has treated other countries like sh*t for decades. And that's why the rest of the world hates us....not because of lame excuses like "they hate our freedoms" or other silly political answers.

 

[YouMadd?]

I agree, that doesn't make any any sense.

But I think an important point is does it really even matter when you have thousands of innocent people dead over wars that are seemingly pointless and counterproductive?

I don't think when people look at those horrific images of Boston with people legless with bones sticking out and pools of blood everywhere, they really make the human connection in regard to this happening when we bomb people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen, and it happens in exponentially higher numbers.

Yeah I see your point. He is trying to make Americans feel the terror or anguish that middle easterners feel due to our activity over there....

 

[NubianVitruvian]

I'm assuming when western imperialism ends.... but I'm not 100% sure on that.

We keep going tit for tat across the world with all this violence. It leads to nothing. The higher power probably looking at us like toddles fighting for who's His favourite.

I don't blame the West or the East or w/e. Its how we "grew up" on this planet but its time for the world to unite. I want to go to space mane

 

[daze23]

I agree, that doesn't make any any sense.

But I think an important point is does it really even matter when you have thousands of innocent people dead over wars that are seemingly pointless and counterproductive?

I don't think when people look at those horrific images of Boston with people legless with bones sticking out and pools of blood everywhere, they really make the human connection in regard to this happening when we bomb people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen, and it happens in exponentially higher numbers.

I'm not gonna defend the logic of intentionally killing/harming civilians to make some sort of "point", at all

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I'm not gonna defend the logic of intentionally killing/harming civilians to make some sort of "point", at all

No one's defending that or asking you to defend it. I'm asking is what we're doing any ethically superior.