Federal Medical Center Devens Opened in 1996 [VIDEO]: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Bombing Suspect Transferred to Federal Prison
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect accused of bombing the Boston marathon, was transferred from hospital to federal prison in Massachusetts on Friday.
U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade emailed a statement emailed to reporters this morning.
"The Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens is an administrative facility housing male offenders requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care. FMC Devens also has a satellite camp housing minimum security male inmates.
"FMC Devens is located in north central Massachusetts, approximately 39 miles west of Boston and 20 miles north of Worcester, on the decommissioned military bfederal medical center devens opened in 1996 ase of Fort Devens."
Tsarnaev, 19, was released from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center during the early morning hours to avoid any security issues and was taken to the Federal Medical Center Devens.
He is currently recovering from a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries.
The Federal Medical Center treats federal prisoners and detainees with long-term medical conditions or mental health care.
It has been revealed that bombing brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan planned a second bomb attack on New York's Time Square, New York.
The suspects hijacked a car and its driver in Boston on April 18 with the intent of driving to New York with bombs, and detonating them in Times Square, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Their plan ultimately failed when they were involved in a shootout with police soon after, which left Tamerlan, 26, dead.
"Last night we were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," Bloomberg said at New York City Hall Thursday. "He and his older brother intended to drive to New York and detonate those explosives in Times Square."
The suspect's attorney, Miriam Conrad, declined to comment on Thursday on whether Dzhokhar was still talking with investigators. He was charged Monday from his hospital bed for using a weapon of mass destruction with the intent to kill.
The charges could lead to a death penalty and Dzhokhar was assigned three federal public defenders. A probable cause hearing was set for May 30 in U.S. District Court.
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts mosque the Boston Bombing suspects attended has been a temple associated with other terrorism suspects in the past, according to USA Today.
Terror suspects, fugitives and radical speakers have all passed through the Cambridge-located Society of Boston mosque that the Tsarnaev brothers were associated with.
The mosque invited radical speakers to a sister mosque in Boston and is affiliated with a Muslim group that critics said fosters grievances that can lead to extremism, according to the news report. The mosque has even been investigated for Islamic terrorism and its first president, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, faced a conviction in connection with an assassination plot against a Saudi prince.
Its sister mosque in Boston is known as the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. There, invited guests have defended terrorism suspects and former trustee Yusuf Al-Qaradawi is featured is a series of videos where he advocates treating gays like criminals.
He also said husbands should sometimes beat their wives and called on Allah to kill Zionists and Jews, according to Americans for Peace and Tolerance, an interfaith group that has investigated the mosques. He said Jews should be "exterminated" and once wrote in an Arabic newspaper editorial that Jews are "the Rapists of worshippers of Allah," Fox reported.
"We don't know where these boys were radicalized, but this mosque has a curriculum that radicalizes people. Other people have been radicalized there," said the head of the group, Charles Jacobs.
The Cambridge and Boston mosques, separated by the Charles River, are owned by the same entity but are managed individually.
Yusufi Vali, executive director at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, insisted that his mosque does not spread radical ideology and cannot be blamed for the acts of a few worshipers. He said U.S. law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have partnered with the Muslim American Society and the Boston mosque to conduct monthly meetings for four years now.
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