Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (AP)
The Boston bomb fiend blamed the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the deadly April 15 terror attack in a note written on the wall of his hiding spot during a massive manhunt, according to a new report.
Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spelled out his reasons for killing three and maiming hundreds in the twin blasts in a note inside the boat’s cabin, according to CBS News.
The note, written in pen, called the bomb victims collateral damage and compared them to Muslims who had been killed in the wars.
“When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims,” CBS reported the note revealed.
The quote echoes a line from Osama bin Laden’s terror manifesto “Letter to America” where he says, “if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back.”
The 19-year-old Tsarnaev called his slain brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, a martyr.
Tsarnaev also reportedly wrote he did not mourn his brother and he expected to join him in paradise.
CBS reports the wall where the note was written was rife with bullet holes.
The note will serve as a significant piece of evidence in the blast fiend’s trial, giving insight to the motive of the Marathon attack, according to CBS News correspondent John Miller.
“It is consistent with what he told investigators while he was in custody,” Miller said.
The note is key because it corroborates what Tsarnaev told investigators before he was issues his Miranda warning, Miller said.
Radical Islamic materials and an al Qaeda magazine were found on the computer of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s widow — and there was explosive residue throughout their house.
The files found on Katherine Russell’s hard drive are part of an investigation into whether the woman — who claimed to be in the dark on her husband’s terrorist activities — was aware of the Tsarnaev’s plan to set off the two bombs, The Washington Post reported.
It wasn’t clear whether the files belonged to Russell, 24, or her husband.
The explosive residue was found on the kitchen sink and table and in the bathtub at their home in Cambridge, Mass., a source told CNN.
Dzhokhar, told investigators they built the bombs in Tamerlan’s basement.