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| Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, will not be tried as an enemy combatant, the White House said on Monday. “We will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice,” said Jay Carney, the White House press secretary. |
| Mr. Carney noted that it was illegal to try an American citizen in a military commission, and that a number of high-profile terrorism cases were handled in the civilian court system, including that of the would-be bomber who tried to bring down a passenger jet around Christmas 2009 with explosives in his underwear. |
| Mr. Carney said the government had gotten “valuable intelligence” from suspects kept in the civilian judicial process. “The system has repeatedly proven it can handle” such cases, he said. |
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