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            Boston to Observe Moment of Silence for Bombing Victims

   People in Boston, Massachusetts are scheduled to hold a moment of
   silence Monday at 2:50 p.m. local time to mark the passing of one week
   since the deadly Boston Marathon bombings that took three lives and
   paralyzed much of the Boston area later in the week.
   Bells are scheduled to ring throughout Boston and in other parts of
   Massachusetts to mark the solemn occasion.
   On Sunday, Boston`s top police official said investigators believe the
   two brothers suspected in the bombings were planning other attacks.
   Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said authorities found a cache of
   homemade explosives after the gunbattle between police and the Tsarnaev
   brothers. Davis said the scene was littered with unexploded bombs, and
   police found one improvised explosive device in the vehicle the
   brothers are accused of stealing.
   The elder brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, died in the shootout Thursday,
   while the younger Dzhokhar escaped, only to be captured alive late
   Friday.
   The 19-year-old brother remains hospitalized in serious condition,
   heavily sedated and not able to speak because of injuries that occurred
   while on the run from police. However, authorities say he has begun
   responding to questions in writing. There is no word yet on his
   responses.
   Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said that Tsarnaev has a gunshot wound in
   his neck and throat area. Investigators say that injury may have been
   self-inflicted.
   Prosecutors are preparing to file criminal charges against the
   remaining brother, who would be represented by a public defender.
   A website used by an Islamist movement founded by a leading Chechen
   militant denied any link to the deadly bombings.
   The two suspects are ethnic Chechen immigrants who came to the United
   States as boys. They are accused of setting off two bombs at the
   marathon last week, killing three and injuring 176.
   Authorities gave no indication as to what motivated the brothers. So
   far, authorities say they do not believe the brothers were affiliated
   with a larger terrorist network and that they had acted alone.
   Travel records show that in 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent six months in
   Dagestan and Chechnya, predominantly Muslim republics in the north
   Caucasus region of Russia with active militant separatist movements.
   U.S. investigators interviewed him in early 2011 at the request of "a
   foreign government," acknowledged by U.S. officials to be Russia.
   A U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation statement late Friday indicated
   the request said Tamerlan had become a follower of radical Islam "and
   that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the
   United States for travel to the country`s region to join unspecified
   underground groups."
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