Aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing which killed three people on April 15, 2013. Thousands were in and around the area of the two explosions., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Motive behind Boston Marathon bombings remains unknown
Sun Apr 21, 2013 5:18AM GMT
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US police and intelligence forces are struggling to determine the motive behind the Boston Marathon bombings, as the surviving suspect in the case is lying seriously wounded in a hospital and unable to speak.
On Saturday, authorities said they would wait to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, about why he and his slain older brother allegedly carried out the twin bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, which killed three people and wounded about 180 others.
Fifty-eight of the victims from the bomb attacks are still in Boston hospitals with three in critical conditions.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said he hopes the teenage suspect, under police guard in hospital, survives.
He said Tsarnaev’s situation is “serious but stable. I think [he is] not able to communicate yet.”
“We have a million questions and those questions need to be answered,” Patrick noted.
President Barack Obama acknowledged that “many unanswered questions” remain about the case.
“Among them, why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence? How did they plan and carry out these attacks? And did they receive help?” Obama asked after the arrest of Dzhokhar.
Obama vowed that authorities would investigate any associations that the two men, whose family members are ethnic Chechens, may have had.
Dzhokhar was wounded in a shootout with police early on Friday, when his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan was killed. The teenager was arrested later in the day.
The FBI acknowledged on Friday that the Russian FSB intelligence security service had asked for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's possible terror ties in early 2011.
The FBI said that in response, it interviewed Tsarnaev and his relatives, and had not found any signs of domestic or foreign terrorism activity.
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