Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: 'Boston bombs were Tamerlan's idea'

Teenager says older brother was 'driving force' behind attack because he wanted to 'defend Islam'

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DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV has blamed his older brother Tamerlan for the Boston marathon bombing and told investigators they were not part of any international terrorist group, CNN reports.

A federal magistrate presided at the 19-year-old's bedside at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital last night to hear him charged with detonating a "weapon of mass destruction" to kill and maim civilians - a charge that carries the death penalty.

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