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May 3, 2013

Boston Bombing Suspects Allegedly Planned July 4th Attack 
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The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has reportedly
told investigators he and his brother initially planned to strike on the
July 4th holiday. According to law enforcement sources, Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev said the attack came earlier because the brothers completed
their bomb-making more quickly than planned. The New York Times reports
the Tsarnaev brothers considered suicide attacks and viewed many online
sermons by the U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, killed by a U.S. drone
strike in Yemen in 2011.

 

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