Mother Of Boston Bombing Suspect: ‘If They Are Going To Kill Him, I Don’t Care’

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The mother of Dzhokhar Tsarvaev, the 19-year-old Boston marathon bombing suspect, told CNN in a very distraught phone interview aired Tuesday that her sons were framed.

“You know what I think?” she said. “I think now they will try to make my Dzhokhar guilty because they took away his voice, his ability to talk to the world. You know why they did that? They did it because — because they did not want the truth to come out.”

She added: “If they are going to kill him, I don’t care. My oldest one has been killed so I don’t care. I don’t care if my youngest son is going to be killed today. So I want the world to hear this. And I don’t care if I am going to get killed too. Okay?”

Tsarvaev is currently in “fair” condition and is responding to officials as the investigation continues. According to the Washington Post, he told investigators Tuesday that U.S. wars abroad in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother, Tamerlan, to carry out the attacks that killed three and injured at least 180 people last week.

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