BOMBING AT BOSTON MARATHON-GRAPHIC PHOTOS

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Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American citizen, won't be treated as an enemy combatant as some Republican members of Congress had suggested, the White House said Monday.

"He will not be treated as an enemy combatant," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "We will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice. Under U.S. law, United States citizens cannot be tried in military commissions."

Carney said the decision was backed by the administration's entire national security team.

Federal prosecutors charged Tsarnaev Monday for his role in last week's attack on the Boston Marathon, as he lay in his hospital bed still in serious condition after suffering a possibly self-inflicted gunshot wound to his neck. Tsarnaev has been charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property in the United States resulting in death.

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