Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention centre in central Massachusetts.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the Boston Marathon bombing April 15, is now at this federal medical centre in Devens, about 64 kilometres west of Boston. (Elise Amendola/Associated Press)
The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that Tsarnaev was taken from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center overnight to the Federal Medical Center in Devens about 64 kilometres west of Boston.
The facility, on the decommissioned Fort Devens U.S. Army base, treats federal prisoners and detainees who require specialized long-term medical or mental health care.
The 19-year-old Tsarnaev is recovering from a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries suffered during his attempted getaway.
The Massachusetts college student was charged with setting off the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 260 at the marathon finish line April 15. He could get the death penalty.
News of his transfer to a federal medical detention centre comes a day after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, who was killed during a manhunt for the two after the bombings, had intended to attack New York next.
"Last night, we were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," he told a news conference Thursday.
Police Commmissioner Ray Kelly said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev discussed exploding bombs in Times Square with Tamerlan.
Kelly said the two suspects had a pressure cooker bomb and five pipe bombs they wanted to set off.
Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz in Boston, would not comment on whether authorities plan to add charges based on alleged plan to attack New York.
The Middlesex County district attorney's office also is building a murder case against the surviving Tsarnaev for the death of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier three days after the bombings, office spokeswoman Stephanie Guyotte said.
Investigators and lawmakers briefed by the FBI have said that the brothers — ethnic Chechens from Russia who had lived in the U.S. for about a decade — were motivated by anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Deceased brother had been under scrutiny
Based on the younger man's interrogation and other evidence, authorities have said it appears so far that the Muslim brothers were radicalized via jihadi material on the internet instead of by any direct contact with terrorist organizations, but they have said it is still an open question.
Dzhokhar was interrogated in his hospital room over a period of 16 hours without being read his constitutional rights. He immediately stopped talking after a magistrate judge and a representative from the U.S. Attorney's office entered the room and advised him of his rights to keep quiet and seek a lawyer, according to a U.S. law enforcement official and others briefed on the interrogation.
Tamerlan had come under scrutiny from the FBI, the CIA and Russian intelligence well before the Boston attack. The CIA had added Tamerlan's name to a terrorist database 18 months ago, after Russian intelligence flagged him as a possible Muslim radical, said officials close to the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
That disclosure is certain to raise questions in Congress over whether the Obama administration missed an opportunity to thwart the Boston attack.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told authorities that his older brother only recently recruited him to be part of the attack, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Alleged NYC plan 'fell apart'
Kelly, citing interrogations carried out by the task force investigating the Boston Marathon attack, said that days after the bombing, the Tsarnaev brothers "planned to travel to Manhattan to detonate their remaining explosives in Times Square.
"They discussed this while driving around in a Mercedes SUV that they hijacked after they shot and killed the officer at MIT," the police commissioner said. "That plan, however, fell apart when they realized that the vehicle they hijacked was low on gas and ordered the driver to stop at a nearby gas station."
The driver escaped and called police, Kelly said. That set off the gunbattle and manhunt that ended a day later with Dzhokhar captured and 26-year-old Tamerlan dead.
A day earlier, Kelly said that Tsarnaev had talked about coming to New York "to party" after the attack and that there wasn't evidence of a plot against the city. But Kelly said a later interview with the suspect turned up the information.
"He was a lot more lucid and gave more detail in the second interrogation," Kelly said. He and the mayor were briefed on the information Wednesday night by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Kelly said there was no evidence New York was still a target. But in a show of force, police cruisers with blinking red lights were lined up in the middle of Times Square on Thursday afternoon, and uniformed officers stood shoulder to shoulder.
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