While hiding in a boat before his capture last month, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man later charged in the Boston Marathon bombings, allegedly scrawled a message on an inside wall of the vessel in which he claimed responsibility for the attacks, a law enforcement official said Thursday.
The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly, said the message suggested the attacks were mounted in response to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Written while the suspect lay seriously wounded, the note appeared to resemble a deathbed declaration, possibly prepared should he not survive the intense manhunt, the official said.
In the note, the 19-year-old suspect allegedly referred to his brother, Tamerlan, as a martyr and wrote that he hoped for the same recognition for himself.
"There is an apparent allusion to his own death," the official said.
CBS News' John Miller broke the story of the note on Thursday.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in an encounter with police three days after the bombings April 15 that killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
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