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Boston Globe. Chinese-American. Still won't let them print his real name, even now. He told the brothers "Chinese very friendly to Muslims!"
The story of that night unfolds like a Tarantino movie, bursts of
harrowing action laced with dark humor and dialogue absurd for its
ordinariness, reminders of just how young the men in the car were.
Girls, credit limits for students, the marvels of the Mercedes ML 350
and the iPhone 5, whether anyone still listens to CDs -- all were
discussed by the two 26-year-olds and the 19-year-old driving around on a
Thursday night.
Danny described 90 harrowing minutes, first with the younger brother
following in a second car, then with both brothers in the Mercedes,
where they openly discussed driving to New York, though Danny could not
make out if they were planning another attack. Throughout the ordeal, he
did as they asked while silently analyzing every threatened command,
every overheard snatch of dialogue for clues about where and when they
might kill him...
He overheard them speak in a foreign language -- “Manhattan” the only
intelligible word to him -- and then ask in English if Danny’s car could
be driven out of state. “What do you mean?” Danny said, confused. “Like
New York,” one of the brothers said.
When the younger brother, Dzhokhar, was forced to go inside the Shell
Food Mart to pay, older brother Tamerlan put his gun in the door pocket
to fiddle with a navigation device -- letting his guard down briefly
after a night on the run. Danny then did what he had been rehearsing in
his head. In a flash, he unbuckled his seat belt, opened the door,
stepped through, slammed it behind, and sprinted off at an angle that
would be a hard shot for any marksman....
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