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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev informed investigators that he and his brother were motivated to kill, in part, by U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported.
The 19-year-old also acknowledged his role in the attack while being questioned by investigators in his hospital bed, the report said.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the suspects, and their father, Anzor, are in Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim province in Russia's Caucasus.
After the bombings, Anzor said he believed the brothers were set up and called Dzhokhar a "true angel." Maret Tsarnaeva, the brothers' aunt, who lives in Toronto, also said she believes her nephews were framed.
Many Twitter users have been expressing support for Dzhokhar using the hashtag #freejahar.
A Change.org petition to "guarantee Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the right to a fair trial," addressed to President Barack Obama, has more than 6,000 supporters.
"We believe that within the chaos caused by the Boston Marathon explosion, two young men were wrongfully accused of something they did not do, and one of them has lost his life before even getting the opportunity of a proper trial," Anita Temisheva, the user who launched the petition, wrote."
The aunt of the kid who shot the baby pointblank in the face also said there was no way he could do that and was being framed. Relatives remember the sweet kid that sat on their lap and snuggled up and they can't reconcile that with the monster they have grown into.
A petition to guarantee Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the right to a fair trial, isn't the same as thinking he is innocent or was framed. I think the guy is guilty as sin but I think he is entitled to a fair trial. Thus, I don't interpret 6,000 signatures on this petition as the OP's claim that he has growing support.
The video we saw came from the FBI,the government, not from independent sources. How blindly we accept what the government tells us! It could very well have been faked, or more likely, just misrepresented to implicate two innocent Muslims who were present to cover up for an Israeli operation. The overreaction by law enforcement shows they were hell bent on getting the two in custody before a lawyer or the press got to them and they had a chance to show they were never involved. I'm not saying that is what happened, but I have yet to see proof of their guilt from someone other than their accusers.
A petition to guarantee Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the right to a fair trial, isn't the same as thinking he is innocent or was framed. I think the guy is guilty as sin but I think he is entitled to a fair trial. Thus, I don't interpret 6,000 signatures on this petition as the OP's claim that he has growing support.
Oh I am in the same boat, I am all for the right to a fair trial, though I think there is a lot of evidence that proves that they were the criminals.
The right is willing to accept the government's story because the accused are Muslims and, for them, that is more than enough to prove their guilt.
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