AJC Praises Conviction of Boston Marathon Bomber

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Apr 08, 2015, 05:00 ET

NEW YORK, April 8, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC praised a federal jury for convicting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of carrying out the deadly terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Together with his brother, Tamerlan, who died in a police shootout following the attack, Tsarnaev perpetrated the worst terror assault on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001.

"The horror carried out by the Tsarnaev brothers was a wake-up call that Americans must be vigilant and united in confronting the ongoing threat of jihadist terrorism that continues to challenge our country and the larger world," said AJC Executive Director David Harris.

"While the guilty verdict is very important in bringing some justice, we will forever remember the victims -- Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell, and Lu Lingzi who perished in the bombings, as well as Sean Collier, the MIT campus officer shot dead, and the more than 240 who were wounded, many with significant injuries."

SOURCE American Jewish Committee