There may have been some major missteps before the Boston marathon bombing, however it is a credit to law enforcement that these jihadis never made it to New York:
DAILY MAIL – The teenage terror suspect in the Boston marathon bombings has made the startling revelation to investigators that he and his older brother planned on carrying out a terror attack in Times Square.
Senior law enforcement officials confirmed to NBC News that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told the FBI that they planned to travel to New York from Boston – where they could have detonated at least one of the explosives from the cache they had stockpiled.
The New York police commissioner confirmed on Wednesday that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar were headed to the Big Apple to ‘party’ – and officials told the network that the two brothers had at least discussed the possibility of carrying out another terror attack on American soil.
The unnamed officials issued a cautionary note that the Tsarnaev’s plan was underdeveloped – with one senior official describing the plan as ‘aspirational at most’ to NBC News.
This harrowing confirmation suggests that the duo behind the Boston Marathon bombings were not finished, and were headed to New York City with additional bombs.
It is believed that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were planning further bloodshed but were thwarted when Massachusetts authorities found them in a Boston suburb.
The pair had another pressure cooker bomb – the device used in the marathon attack – and homemade grenades.
But their plans were abandoned as police caught up with them, engaging the Tsarnaev brothers in a wild shootout in which 26-year-old Tamerlan was killed.