Boston bombers targeted New York's Times Square

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 19 recovering from serious injuries in a Boston Hospital had told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he and his older brother Tamerlan 26 quotspontaneouslyquot decided that New York would be next Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday quotLast night we were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targetsquot Bloomberg said at a news conference at city hall This image taken from a video released by the FBI shows 39Suspect 239 L and 39Suspect 139 R in the crowd before the blast at the Boston Marathon on April 15 2013 Both are being sought by the FBI in connection with the marathon bombing that killed three and injured more than 180 AFP PHOTOFBI quotHe and his older brother intended to drive to New York and detonate those explosives in Times Squarequot Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters the suspects had a pressure cooker bomb and five pipe bombs They had planned to head to New York after hijacking a car and its driver in Boston last Thursday night quotThat plan however fell apart when they realised that the vehicle they hijacked was low on gas and ordered the driver to stop at a nearby gas stationquot Kelly said adding that the driver escaped and alerted police A policeman at the Boston Marathon site that was rocked by two explosions Pic AFP u00a0 Following 16 hours of interrogation Tsarnaev stopped responding to investigators39 questions after being read his legal rights to remain silent and have a lawyer according to media reports According to the Wall Street Journal a federal judge decided to advise Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of his Miranda rights even though investigators apparently still wanted to question him further under a publicsafety exception The judge39s move made Monday in the hospital where Tsarnaev was recovering has prompted some Republican lawmakers to press the Justice Department as to why it didn39t make a stronger bid to resist the judge39s plans it noted A police officer for the MIT has been killed in a shooting incident at the campus of the institution PicAFP quotThere will be more instances like this and we will need to have a much better understanding about what is appropriatequot House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers told the Journal in an interview Thursday Meanwhile the Washington Post reported that nine months before the Boston Marathon bombing a US counterterrorism task force received a warning that a suspected militant had returned from a lengthy trip to Russia The reference was evidently to Tamerlan Tsarnaev The warning was delivered to a single US Customs and Border Protection official assigned to Boston39s Joint Terrorism Task Force a cell of specialists from federal and local law enforcement agencies the Post said citing unnamed US officials According to a New York Times report whitesuited investigators Thursday combed through the garbage at the Crapo Hill landfill in New Bedford Massachusetts near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a student Investigators have been searching for several days for a laptop that they believe belonged to one of the Tsarnev brothers it said citing a law enforcement official A Key lawmaker meanwhile has expressed doubts that the suspected marathon bombers acted alone quotI just find it very hard to believe that two individuals such as this could have obtained the weapons the explosives put it all together arranged this on their ownquot Republican Peter King a member of the Select Intelligence and Homeland Security committees told CNN quotI just think that the investigation was not as thorough as it should have beenquot he said saying the questioning of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev prior to reading him his Miranda rights left unanswered several important public safety questions u00a0