Update: Governor: No idea of terrorists’ motivation/Police commissioner: No suspect interview yet

[DonViejo]

Source: AP/Salon

WASHINGTON (AP) — Boston’s police commissioner says the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing is in serious condition and authorities have not been able to try to interrogate him.

Commissioner Edward Davis also tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the crime scene from the early Friday firefight in Watertown, Mass., was “littered” with unexploded improvised explosive devices.

Davis says it’s his belief that 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan “were going to attack other individuals” — and Davis says that’s based on the evidence at the scene and the firepower that the brothers had. Tamerlan died in the gunbattle with police in Watertown.

Davis says “this was as dangerous as it gets in urban policing.”

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/21/police_commissioner_no_suspect_interview_yet/

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Governor: No idea of terrorists’ motivation

WASHINGTON (AP) — The governor of Massachusetts says he has no idea what motivated the terrorists who exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Speaking Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Deval (deh-VAL’) Patrick said it’s hard to imagine why someone would deliberately harm, quote “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.”

Patrick also said law enforcers believe the immediate threat ended when the police killed one of the alleged terrorists and captured the other. The two men were brothers whose family had come to the U.S. from Russia.

Three people were killed and more than 180 injured when two bombs, apparently fashioned out of pressure cookers, exploded Monday about four hours into the race.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/04/21/governor_no_idea_of_terrorists_motivation/

[RC]

1. What I don't get is how these two could amass all the pressure cookers, ball bearing, timers, etc,

to say nothing of the gun power, without arousing any suspicion. Surly someone had to notice something was going on.

The nails I can understand. You needs lots of nails to to build a house or whatever. But ball bearings? Dozens of pressure cookers? There has to be more to this.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Easy enough to buy lots of pressure cookers

You just don't buy them all from the same place. If you have an apartment you don't share with anyone else, you can store them without anyone noticing. And I wouldn't have thought ball bearings would be difficult, either - I doubt the amounts were immense. A college student can just say one purchase is for some project.