White House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday said that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, “suspect No. 2″ in the Boston Marathon bombings, “will not be treated as an enemy combatant.”
In others words, the Obama administration is planning on trying the 19-year-old Tsarnaev in federal civilian court. Tsarnaev obtained U.S. citizenship on Sept. 11 last year.
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