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Carjack victim says terror suspects spared him because he 'wasn't American'

A man who says he was abducted by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects during a carjacking told police the suspects said they would not kill him because he “wasn’t American.”
The man, who has asked that his identity not be revealed, told NBC News that he managed to escape Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s clutches, describing them as “brutal and cautious.”
Details of the Thursday night carjacking – part of the brothers’ own escape attempt after the FBI put out video and photos of them at the marathon – emerged as investigators continued to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at a Boston hospital.
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The 19-year-old has been answering questions in writing because a serious throat wound -- possibly the result of a suicide attempt -- prevents him from speaking, federal officials told NBC News.

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The FBI would like to speak to Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, seen here leaving the Cambridge house where she lived with husband Tamerlan Tsarnaev, her lawyer says.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said Monday the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth scholarship student is still in serious condition.
The FBI is hoping he will provide a motive for the attack last Monday that killed three people -- one of whom, Krystle Campbell, was being laid to rest in Medford. More than 170 were injured, some gravely.
Investigators also want to know whether Tsarnaev, a U.S. citizen of Chechen origin, and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, who was killed in a firefight with police early Friday, received assistance from others, officials said.
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The feds have asked to speak with Tamerlan's wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, who converted to Islam after she met her future husband at a nightclub. She dropped out of college, got married and had a baby three years ago.
Her lawyer told The Associated Press she worked up to 80 hours a week as a home health aide while Tamerlan watched their daughter and didn't have any suspicions he might be plotting something.
She last saw her husband at home on Thursday morning, hours before he and his younger brother allegedly executed a campus police officer, pulled off the carjacking, and led police on a wild bomb-tossing chase that ended in a 200-bullet gun battle.
The wife refused to speak FBI agents who showed up at her parents' Rhode Island home on Sunday night, but her lawyer, Amato DeLuca, said he is trying to work out an interview.
"We're deciding what we want to do and how we want to approach this," he said.
Officials have yet to charge Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who they say was caught on video planting one of two bombs near the finish line of the race. They have given no reason for the delay.
Authorities have told NBC News that a special team would grill Tsarnaev without advising him of his Miranda rights under a “public safety exemption.”
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Boston's top police official said Monday that while there are many unanswered questions, the city can rest easy.

Edward Davis, commissioner of the Boston Police Department, tells Matt Lauer about the latest in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, saying "enormous investigative resources" are being poured into the questioning of suspect Dhokhar Tsarnaev.
"We're satisfied the two main actors, the people that were committing the damage out there, have been either captured or killed," Police Commissioner Ed Davis said on TODAY.
"There is still an open question as to exactly what happened in this investigation," he said. "We can't say with 100 percent certainty...anything, actually, at this point."
Among the mysteries Tsarnaev could solve is what his brother did when he traveled to Russia last year and who he met.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on “Meet the Press” that trip could be when Tamerlan "got that final radicalization to push him to commit acts of violence and where he may have received training."
Authorities are also trying to figure out where the suspects got their bomb-making supplies and guns. Cambridge Police said neither one had the necessary permits to carry firearms.
Immigration officials have arrested two of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's friends on immigration violations, days after they were detained and questioned by police in New Bedford, Mass.