Praising the work of law enforcement in Boston in apprehending and catching the Tsarnaev brothers, Bloomberg said that New York was 'lucky' it never had to find out.īoth Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly spoke at the briefing where they revealed that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told Boston investigators from his hospital bed that he and his brother had discussed going to New York to detonate their remaining explosives. authorities who are coming under fire for their handling of the case.Įspecially how the FBI dealt with warnings from Russian intelligence over Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his visits to terrorist hotbed, Dagestan.

The startling revelations added pressure onto U.S.

Speaking at an afternoon press conference, Bloomberg said that despite the city having heightened security following the marathon attacks, 'We don't know if we would have been able to stop the terrorists had they arrived here from Boston.'

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirmed on Thursday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told the FBI that he and his older brother Tamerlan intended to travel to New York from Boston on Friday- targeting the thousands of tourists and revelers in the city's Times Square. News of the arrest comes after revelations that the Tsarnaev brothers, the two suspects in the Boston bombings, had also planned to set off bombs in Manhattan. His arrest wasn't reported by authorities at the time, but became public after he appeared in Hudson County Court on Wednesday. Originally from the Ukraine, Panasenko has been charged with 'recklessly creating widespread risk of injury or damage to a building which normally contains 25 or more person.'

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