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Boston bombings suspect... Tsarnaev bled for hours from neck, leg wounds, "might not have lived..."
CBS News ^ | April 20, 2013 | CBS News

Posted on 04/20/2013 8:06:55 AM PDT by Jeff Winston

More details have emerged about the Friday night capture that brought the intensive manhunt for the Boston bombing suspects to an end. Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, had been hiding in a boat in Watertown, Mass. Authorities responded to a call from a local man late Friday, after he observed that a tarp covering his boat had been disturbed and there was blood in the boat.

The FBI hostage rescue teams (HRT) planned and executed their operation to clear the boat by lobbing "flash-bangs" into it, which forced the young man to climb out, according to CBS News senior correspondent John Miller. Later the agents observed that Dzhokhar had been shot in the neck and in the leg.

Based on "the amount of blood" the homeowner saw in the boat, it is likely Dzhokhar was shot as long as 20 hours before being discovered, Miller said, referring to the battle earlier Thursday that led to the death of the other bombing suspect, Dzhokhar's 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan.

It was a "fierce gun battle with police after the carjacking and the car chase, at which point they were apparently exchanging gun fire, but also throwing homemade grenades and one large satchel bomb at police officers, so he had been bleeding for a long time," Miller said.

In a photo of authorities apprehending Dzhokhar released Friday, a SWAT team medic can be seen administering an "ambu" resuscitation bag to assist him in his breathing. Another photo shows Dzhokhar climbing out of the boat under his own power, following the commands of the HRT (Hostage Rescue Team), and Miller said it is clear from the images that, "this is a guy who was very weak at this point and probably -- had he not been discovered -- he might not have lived."

A Department of Justice official told CBS News that the arresting agents used an exemption clause to the Miranda law, allowing them to first question Tsarnaev on immediate security concerns before reading him his rights.

"In a case when there are exigent circumstances -- public safety is involved," explains Miller, the exception can be invoked to quickly obtain information; namely "are there other explosives? Is there another plot to blow something up? Are there other people?"

Still, the use of the public safety exception is rare. "We almost never see that," Miller said, adding that i was last invoked to question Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called "underwear bomber" on the Christmas Day 2009 flight into Detroit.

In the coming weeks authorities will continue to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who Miller calls "an intelligence windfall." He added that the primary questions for Tsarnaev are those posed by President Obama in his addresses to Boston and to the nation throughout the week: "How did you do this? How did you plan this? And did you have help?"


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: dzhokhartsarnaev; patriotsdaybombing
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To: Moonman62

I would think that a good K9 officer could have found him within an hour. Why did it take so long?


Because he hid in a boat one block outside the containment zone. All searching was in the zone a block away . . .


121 posted on 04/20/2013 12:04:02 PM PDT by Petruchio (Democrats are like Slinkies... Not good for anything, but it's fun pushing 'em down the stairs.)
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To: nutmeg
"It took them a good 30-40 minutes to get through to any of the authorities ..."

I wonder why they didn't just walk out in the street and flag down one of the 9,000 cops combing the area.

122 posted on 04/20/2013 12:36:30 PM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: palmer
I was only comparing the two brothers. Older one was a 5-prayers-a-day Muslim boxer with stated ambition to be in the Olympics. The younger went to college mostly to socialize.

Got it. You're probably right that the older brother ran the younger brother.

123 posted on 04/20/2013 12:38:21 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: varon

Maybe.


124 posted on 04/20/2013 1:03:31 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Bikkuri
Supposedly he had been wounded earlier. That's where the blood the homeowner saw came from.

Haven't heard whether he had a weapon or shot at police.

We should be thankful they didn't do what they did in Kalifornia and shoot up a bunch of innocent people.

125 posted on 04/20/2013 1:08:07 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Romulus

It is evidence


126 posted on 04/20/2013 1:13:37 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
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To: Gorilla44
was alive, cuffed on ground when younger brother ran over him, killing him. - CNN

I hope it was painful.

127 posted on 04/20/2013 1:14:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: InterceptPoint
InterceptPoint @119"But one would assume that good reporters would dig these facts out."

As you also indicated, that is probably not going to happen; because, instead of "reporters" (much less "good reporters") we have fifth-column propagandists squatting on newspapers, radio, and television.

Even on local TV news stations, even when reporting on non-political events, major parts of the who/what/when/where/why are often missing or replaced with "how do people feel about it" verbage. And when "reporters" attempt to cover some particular technical topic, about which I happen to know quite a bit, they usually royally screw it up. That leaves me dubious about anything the fifth-columnists claim on subjects I don't know much about.

128 posted on 04/20/2013 2:07:54 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the link at Post # 2.


129 posted on 04/20/2013 3:48:35 PM PDT by zot
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To: GreyFriar

“1st dead bomber had wife and daughter, wife converted to Islam.”

It doesn’t look like his wife was involved in what he did, but she may have known about it.


130 posted on 04/20/2013 3:57:53 PM PDT by zot
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To: henkster

” No federal crime I am aware of in this case; probably be state prosecution.”

Really? Manufacturing and detonating explosives maybe?


131 posted on 04/20/2013 4:10:31 PM PDT by Clay Moore ("In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: McGruff
Too bad he surrendered. I would have liked him to have assumed room temperature.

Oh hell no! We need as much information on how he came to this point as we can possibly get.

132 posted on 04/20/2013 5:11:21 PM PDT by SuziQ
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