Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Left Note Confessing Inside Boat; Bombings Were Retaliation For U.S.-Lead Wars & Muslim Deaths, Didn't Mourn Brother
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomb suspect, wrote a confession while he was in the boat.
A new report states that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who was concealed from cops in a boat during the long night that included standoffs, escapes, the death of his brother, and a manhunt that took place all over Boston, penned a confession while hiding in a boat during part of that night.
Tsarnaev supposedly scrawled his confession on the inside hull of the boat. The confession apparently claims that Tsarnaev and his brother planted the bombs in retaliation for the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The terrorized boy scrawled a confession in pen on a bullet-scarred inside wall of the boat he was hiding in on April 19th. It said that the United States' military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan was the reason the two brothers corroborated to set off the deadly bombs near that finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15th.
The note allegedly claimed that the victims of the bombings were collateral damage, similar to the thousands of innocent Muslim civilians who have been killed in U.S. lead wars in the Middle East. During the Boston bombings, three people were killed and more than 260 people were injured. In Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, by contrast, roughly 158,000 to 202,000 innocent civilians have died according to the Human Rights Watch, CIVIC, and Brown University's Watson Institute; these numbers are likely to be gross underestimates. (The figure is hard to measure because the war is a over a decade long, in three countries, and whether someone was an "insurgent" versus a "civilian" is often an object of some debate.)
According to CBS, the note said, "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims."
Currently, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in a federal prison hospital after being transferred from a public hospital as he recovers from wounds he received in a gun battle with police on April 18.
A complete text of the note, which may be used during the upcoming trial against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, wasn't released by investigators.
Tsarnaev, 19, also reportedly wrote in the note that he didn't mourn older brother and the alleged mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who had already been killed in an earlier gun battle that night with police. He referred to his brother as a martyr in paradise, CBS said.
Tsarnaev was found in the boat at the end of a long battle that included the deaths of his brother and an MIT police officer.