Michael Bloomberg says suspects “intended to drive to to New York and detonate additional explosives in Times Square” b.globe.com/17Zclsm
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 25, 2013
Adam Clark Estes tries to separate fact from fiction in the media’s coverage of last Friday’s manhunt:
Among other revelations, police are now saying that they don’t believe Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack, was armed when they opened fire on him Friday evening. In fact, authorities admit that the two brothers didn’t quite have the small arsenal of weapons they thought they did — just one gun, a gun that wasn’t anywhere near Dzhokhar when he was found in the boat after a shootout. …
[I]t was also revealed on Wednesday night that the Tsarnaev brothers used a remote control to detonate the bombs on Marathon Monday. According to Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, a Maryland Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, it was the same kind of remote control used for remote control cars. And according to CBS News, it was bought with drug money. We already knew that Dzhokhar was a pothead and potential dealer, but the latest reports suggest that Tamerlan got in on the action, too. This leads to the natural conclusion that the bombing, somehow, was funded by their drug money. But honestly, it’s very tough to tell how they got the money they spent on the bombs.
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