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WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
April 17, 2018
As the fifth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing comes and goes, we can't help but wonder what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might have to say for himself — if he were allowed to speak. For one thing, we'd like to ask him if he could fill in some details about his brother Tamerlan's mysterious activities in theÃâà...
The Conversation US
April 15, 2018
It remains puzzling to many how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old stoner who listened to Jay-Z and watched “The Walking Dead,” could – with his older brother, Tamerlan – kill and injure so many innocent civilians. Authorities at least knew more about Dzhokhar because he was taken alive. His brotherÃâà...
The Sun
April 15, 2018
When was the Boston Marathon bombing, who were the bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and how many victims were there? Here's what you need to know about the depraved attack that killed three people and wounded hundreds. By Guy Birchall. 16th April 2018, 9:14 am. Updated: 16th April 2018, 9:20 am.
Heavy.com
April 14, 2018
In April of 2002 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his parents arrived in the United States on 90 day tourist visas. Fearing persecution for their Chechen ties, the elder Tsarnaev applied for asylum. Tamerlan was left with an uncle in what was then the Russian Federation and made his way to America 2 years later.
Fall River Herald News
April 13, 2018
The news vans are gone, as are the blue and gold “UMass Dartmouth Strong” buttons that the university distributed a month after the campus evacuation to its graduating class. Tsarnaev's old dorm room is still in use. DARTMOUTH — Almost 10,000 students have graduated from the University ofÃâà...
BU Today
April 11, 2018
For many people, the story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings centers on brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who planted the bombs that killed 3 people, including Lu Lingzi (GRS'13), and injured 260, many of them needing amputations. For journalist Casey Sherman (COM'93), the narrativeÃâà...
Eagle-Tribune
April 4, 2018
Many of the security measures have been in place since 2013, when brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev detonated the bombs. But police are constantly updating their plans based on world events, and new measures may not always be evident to the public, they said. Changes to security haveÃâà...
New York Times
March 30, 2018
After the April 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon, which killed three people and injured many others, prosecutors brought a rare capital case in Massachusetts, seeking and securing the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving attacker. At least five others were also charged in theÃâà...
Boston Herald
March 8, 2018
Three people were killed and hundreds others injured on April 15, 2013, when ISIS sympathizers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev detonated two homemade pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line on Boylston Street. The two brothers, who lived in Cambridge, had entered the United States with theirÃâà...
The Republic
February 28, 2018
BOSTON — The second of three college buddies convicted for their roles in covering up for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) is getting out of prison. The Boston Herald reports that 24-year-old Robel Phillipos is scheduled to be released Monday from a residentialÃâà...
Boston Herald
February 25, 2018
Phillipos was convicted of lying to the FBI about terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his childhood friend and classmate at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, after Tsarnaev and his late brother detonated two pressure-cooker bombs in Copley Square, killing three spectators and injuring hundreds others.
The Boston Globe
November 8, 2017
A friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev is turning to the US Supreme Court in hopes of overturning his conviction for lying to the FBI following the April 2013 bombing that killed three and wounded more than 260. Robel Phillipos, 24, met Tsarnaev when both were students at UMassÃâà...
Newsweek
October 23, 2017
The Russian aunt of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has filed a motion in his death penalty appeal case that reveals new details on the meetings her nephew's attorneys had in Russia with his parents and makes a bizarre allegation that the FBI said the bomber had a “heavy-ladenÃâà...
Heavy.com
December 31, 1999
In April of 2002, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his parents arrived in the United States on 90 day tourist visas. Fearing persecution for their Chechen ties, the elder Tsarnaev applied for asylum. Tamerlan was left with an uncle in what was then the Russian Federation and made his way to America two years later.
Boston Herald
December 31, 1999
The Herald first reported that Carter's team now includes former federal judge Nancy Gertner, William Fick, who represented convicted marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his trial, and Daniel Marx, a decorated defense attorney who has been on the front lines of the litigation involving the Bay State'sÃâà...
Boston Herald
December 31, 1999
An all-star defense team — including a former federal judge and an attorney who defended Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — are representing Michelle Carter in her pitch to have the state's highest court throw out her unprecedented involuntary manslaughter conviction. Carter was given a 2Ãâà...
