Basic Questions Remain Unanswered in the Boston Bombing Case
May 2, 2013 • 9:28AM
On May 1, authorities investigating the Boston bombings arrested Murat Kadyrbayev, his son Dias, and Azamat Tazhayako. Reports indicate that all three are of Kazak origin and the last two are students. In addition, the media reported that on April 29 investigators removed bags of evidence, including DNA samples, from the home in Rhode Island where Katherine Russell, suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, has been living. It is not clear what significance these arrests have. On April 30, appearing on the PBS Newshour, Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal told the interviewer, Ray Suarez, that "one of the big problems with the case right now is trying to figure out where they put the bombs together." "It's still somewhat of a mystery. They [FBI] did searches of the home the brothers shared in Cambridge and found no residue. And so these are messy things to put together. These are black powder bombs. So it's very unusual for you not to be able to find this. You would have to be really good at cleaning up to be able to erase all proof of this. So that's something that I think they hope these folks can help them figure out."
In this day and age of abundant gadgetry and the growth of cottage industry associated with security, it is impossible not to find a trace of black gunpowder if it had been used to assemble those bombs in that location. In other words, the bombs were in all likelihood not made in the Tsarnaev brothers' apartment. Then, where were they assembled, and who assembled them?
Similarly unanswered is the question of how all the bombs placed and thrown by Tsarnaev brothers functioned perfectly — a feat normally achieved only after extensive and careful training.
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