More taxpayer money wasted on what is to be the meaningless and lengthy trial of a Muslim terrorist, one of millions worldwide and more than likely thousands here in the United States. How a defense attorney could in good conscience try to build a case to protect this vermin is beyond me. If an American did what this criminal did in places such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other Muslim nations he would have already been hung or stoned to death. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: USA TODAY
Photography: Associated Press
John Bacon, USA TODAY 9:28 a.m. EDT July 10, 2013
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces arraignment Wednesday afternoon in Boston on 30 federal charges, including use of a weapon of mass destruction.
Several of the charges could bring the death penalty for Tsarnaev, 19, for the April 15 blasts that killed three people and wounded more than 200. Tsarnaev also is accused of killing an MIT police officer.
His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police following a massive manhunt three days after the bombings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured the next day — wounded and bloodied from the shootout — after a Watertown homeowner noticed blood on his dry-docked boat. Police found the suspect hiding inside.
This marks the suspect’s first public appearance since his arrest. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office said space is being reserved in the main courtroom for victims’ families, but she wouldn’t indicate how many planned to attend. Court officials have set aside an overflow courtroom to broadcast the hearing for the news media.
Authorities say the brothers were inspired by al-Qaeda publications and that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a confession in the boat justifying the bombings as payback for U.S. military action in Muslim countries.
He wrote the U.S. government was “killing our innocent civilians.”
“I don’t like killing innocent people,” he said, but also wrote: “I can’t stand to see such evil go unpunished. … We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all.”
Tsarnaev’s arrest stunned those who knew him as a likable high school athlete in Cambridge, Mass., where he lived with his older brother after his parents left for Russia.
The indictment also said that, sometime before the bombings, Tsarnaev downloaded Internet material from Islamic extremists that advocated violence against the perceived enemies of Islam.
Three people — Martin Richard, 8, Krystle Marie Campbell, 29, and Lingzi Lu, 23 — were killed by the bombs, which were improvised from pressure cookers. Authorities say the Tsarnaevs also killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer Sean Collier days later while they were on the run.