Procurando minha galera: Boston bombs: Officials wait to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Boston bombs: Officials wait to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

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US waits to question 'Boston bomber'

Makeshift memorial for Boston bomb victims, Boston (20 April 2013)

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A top US interrogation group waits to question Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is "serious but stable" in hospital.
20 April 2013 Last updated at 21:46 GMT

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken into custody covered in blood

Boston Bombs

A top US interrogation group is waiting to question the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was arrested late on Friday when he was found seriously injured in a suburban backyard after a huge manhunt.
He is under armed guard in hospital. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said the suspect was stable, but not yet able to communicate.
The teenager's brother, Tamerlan, died after a shoot-out with police.
Three people were killed and more than 170 others injured by Monday's twin bombing, close the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Analysis

Rajesh Mirchandani BBC News, Washington DC

Miranda warnings - or more usually, Miranda rights - are designed to remind a suspect who has been arrested or is questioned in custody that they have certain constitutional rights, including the right to remain silent so as not to incriminate themselves and to have an attorney present during questioning.
Police officers are required to recite them, although not necessarily word for word, to a suspect. But there is an exception - and that's what happened in the case of the Boston bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev.
The exception was identified in a 1984 Supreme Court ruling which stated that "the need for answers to questions in a situation posing a threat to the public safety outweighs the need for the prophylactic rule protecting the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination".
The exception has been used in a couple of high profile terror-related cases in recent years: against Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was stopped while trying to set off a bomb hidden in his underpants on a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, and against Faisal Shahzad, who tried to detonate a bomb in New York's Times Square in 2010.
Applied to the Boston manhunt, if officers had read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights, he might have stayed silent about any more bombs, any more attacks planned - or any co-conspirators.

Police officer Sean Collier was shot dead during the police operation to find the brothers on Thursday night. A transport officer was later seriously injured in the shoot-out which left Tamerlan Tsarnaev fatally wounded.

On Saturday, President Barack Obama met his top security advisors to review the events in Boston.
He has vowed to seek answers on what motivated the alleged bombers and whether they had help.
'A million questions' Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found by a member of the public on Friday evening, shortly after a city-wide lockdown was ended. He was injured and hiding in a boat in a backyard, and was reportedly further injured in a fire fight with police.
The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group - a multi-security agency unit specialising in questioning terror suspects - is waiting at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston as he recovers.
Prosecutors are also there, determining what charges the teenager might eventually face.
On Saturday, Governor Patrick told reporters: "I, and I think all of the law enforcement professionals, are hoping for a host of reasons that the suspect survives because we have a million questions, and those questions need to be answered."
In a move criticised by rights activists, officials have said they intend to question the teenager without reading him his Miranda rights - the standard statement informing suspects they have a right to a lawyer and to remain silent - citing a "public safety exception".

The Tsarnaev brothers

Tamerlan Tsarnaev (L), 26, and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19

Sons of Chechen refugees from the troubled Caucasus region of southern Russia
Family is thought to have moved to the US in 2001, from Russian republic of Dagestan
They lived in the Massachusetts town of Cambridge, home to Harvard University
Dzhokhar, 19, was awarded a scholarship to pursue further education; he wanted to become a brain surgeon, according to his father
Tamerlan, 26, was an amateur boxer who had reportedly taken time off college to train for a competition; he described himself as a "very religious" non-drinker and non-smoker

The American Civil Liberties Union said such an exemption only applied in the case of immediate threats, and that the suspension of rights could not be "open-ended".

"Denial of rights is un-American and will only make it harder to obtain fair convictions," it said in a statement.
But Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be treated as an "enemy combatant", meaning he would not be entitled to the same legal rights as a criminal defendant.
"We should be focused on gathering intelligence from this suspect right now that can help our nation understand how this attack occurred and what may follow in the future," their statement read.
The news that one suspect had been killed and the second captured prompted scenes of celebration on the streets of Boston on Friday evening, with people cheering, honking car horns and waving American flags.
Elliot Friar, who lives close to where Monday's bombs exploded, said it was "a bittersweet moment" because of those who had lost their lives.
"But it was also a time for celebration because the city has been on edge and we're finally feeling more safe than we have in the past four days," he told the BBC.
In a statement, the family of Martin Richard, the eight-year-old boy who was one of the three people killed by the bomb, said: "Tonight, our family applauds the entire law enforcement community for a job well done, and trust that our justice system will now do its job."
The Boston Red Sox baseball team had been due to play in the city on Friday, but the game was postponed because of the lockdown.
The game went ahead on Saturday, with team members wearing the city's name on their shirts instead of the usual Red Sox and the stadium observing a moment of silence for the victims.

'Set up' Law enforcement officials and family members have identified the Tsarnaev brothers as ethnic Chechens who had been living in America for about a decade.
The FBI had interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after a request from a foreign government, US law enforcements officials have confirmed.
But agents closed the case after finding no cause for concern.
Several members of the Tsarnaev family have condemned and disowned the brothers, but their parents have said that they could not have planned such an attack as they were being monitored by the FBI.
Their mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, said she was "100% sure that this is set up, insisting in an interview with Russia Today that her sons had never had any involvement with terrorism.