CIA, FBI, Military Interrogators Ready To Question Boston Bombing Suspect -- Washington Post
Federal prosecutors on Sunday were preparing to file charges against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, even as he remained under heavy guard at a local hospital amid questions about whether authorities would be able to interrogate him.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was in critical but stable condition with a gunshot wound to the neck, Boston police said Sunday, and federal and local officials said they were unsure he would be able to talk again. “We don’t know if we’ll ever be able to question the individual,” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said Sunday.
The full extent of Tsarnaev’s injuries, and whether he sustained them in a gun battle with police more than 12 hours before his capture Friday evening, remained unclear. Officials at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — the same hospital where his older brother, Tamerlan, 26, was pronounced dead Friday after a shootout with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown — referred questions about Dzhokhar’s condition to the FBI, which declined to comment.
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My Comment: I know that the suspect is now communicating to authorities .... I am just surprised that he has not asked for a lawyer or been given one .... especially since many do not want him to be charged as an enemy combatant.
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