[LINK] "Boston bombing suspects planned to attack NYC"

[rfmcdonald]

Bombing Times Square, next?. The Tsarnaev brothers seem to have had grand ambitions, certainly. What a pity that they hadn't blown themselves up

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings intended to attack New York City next, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday.

"Last night, we were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," he said at a news conference.

Police commmissioner Ray Kelly said Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect, discussed exploding bombs in Times Square with his brother Tamerlan, who was later killed in Boston in an exchange of gunfire with police.

Kelly says the two suspects had a pressure cooker bomb and five pipe bombs they wanted to set off.

Dzhokar told investigators in the Boston hospital where he is recovering from his wounds about the plan, which Bloomberg said was spontaneous.

Tsarnaev travelled to New York at least once last fall. There is a photo of the suspect in Times Square.