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05/21/2014
New court filings
The alleged Boston marathon bombers used Christmas lights and model-car parts as components in the bombs, prosecutors said in documents filed today.
"The Marathon bombs were constructed using improvised fuses made from Christmas lights and improvised, remote-control detonators fashioned from model car parts...These relatively sophisticated devices would have been difficult for the Tsarnaevs to fabricate successfully without training or assistance from others"
To obtain explosive fuel for the bombs, the government said Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev: 
"appeared to have crushed and emptied hundreds of individual fireworks containing black powder...Yet searches of the Tsarnaevs’ residences, three vehicles, and other locations associated with them yielded virtually no traces of black powder"
They also provided a new version of the alleged 'boat note confession', stating it was written in pencil and not a 'sharpie' as previoulsy contended. The note read:
"I’m jealous of my brother who ha [re]ceived the reward of jannutul Firdaus (inshallah) before me. I do not mourn because his soul is very much alive. God has a plan for each person. Mine was to hide in this boat and shed some light on our actions. I ask Allah to make me a shahied (iA) to allow me to return to him and be among all the righteous people in the highest levels of heaven. He who Allah guides no one can misguide. A[llah Ak]bar! 


The US Government is killing our innocent civilians but most of you already know that. As a [UI] I can’t stand to see such evil go unpunished, we Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all. Well at least that’s how muhhammad (pbuh) wanted it to be [for]ever, the ummah is beginning to rise/[UI] has awoken the mujahideen, know you are fighting men who look into the barrel of your gun and see heaven, now how can you compete with that. We are promised victory and we will surely get it. Now I don’t like killing innocent people it is forbidden in Islam but due to said [UI] it is allowed. All credit goes [UI]. Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop"
Prosecutors also made reference to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev condition in hospital, saying he was "alert, mentally competent, and lucid" when talking to FBI agents. They disputed defense claims that he was under the influence of three different drugs during his interrogation. 

The government did not address the issue of Tsarnaev's repeated requests for a lawyer.
Embarrassing Error
In the week Ibragim Todashev's shooter was publicly named due to an administrative redaction error, Boston prosecutors appear to have fallen foul of exactly the same mistake. Unbelievably, the court filings released today all contained redactions - which were easily unredacted within minutes of their release. 

Below is the full uncensored text of the "GOVERNMENT’S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO SUPPRESS STATEMENTS"

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We will pass detailed comment on the issues arising from the filings shortly, and publish more uncensored documents accordingly.
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