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Taliban Likely Had Role in Times Square Bomb Attempt, Report Says
By Tom Diemer
Mounting evidence drawn from terror suspect Faisal Shahzad and other sources suggests the Pakistani Taliban played some part in the attempted car-bombing in New York, raising fears that militant groups other than al-Qaeda are trying to attack targets in the United States, the New York Times ...
After the Times Square Bomber: What Is Obama's Terrorism Strategy?
By Walter Shapiro
The 53 hours from the primed-to-explode Nissan Pathfinder in Times Square to the nick-of-time arrest of Faisal Shahzad underlined the single undeniable truth of 21st-century terrorism. The best defense against a terrorist attack is not the CIA, the FBI, Predator drones or Jack Bauer, but the New ...
Terror Suspects Can't Fly, but Can Buy Guns
By Patricia Murphy
The FBI-monitored terrorist watch list is meant to prevent anyone suspected of being involved in terrorist activity from boarding a plane in the United States. But it won't prevent the same people from buying firearms and explosives in this country According to the FBI, more than 1,100 people on ...
Graham v. Obama: Preacher's Kid Knocks President Over Islam Stance
By David Gibson
Evangelist Billy Graham is 91 years old now and spends his waning days at his mountaintop retreat in North Carolina meeting -- when his health permits -- with fortunate pols like Sarah Palin, as he did last November, or Barack Obama, as he did last week. But "America's Pastor" largely stays out of ...
After the Times Square Bomb: Living in the No. 1 Terrorist Target
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
When the towers fell -- why does it feel like it was just a while ago? -- I was fast-walking around my neighborhood as I did most mornings. Pretty soon I noticed clusters of folks huddling on sidewalks and gesturing with obvious agitation. Somebody told me that a small plane had crashed into a ...
Timeline of White House Response to Times Square Bombing Attempt
By Christopher Weber
On Tuesday the White House released the following timeline of official actions following the weekend bombing attempt in New York's Times Square: Saturday, May 1 9:30 p.m. White House Situation Room notifies the National Security staff that an apparent car bomb had been discovered in Times ...
Faisal Shahzad, Times Square Bombing Suspect, Charged With Terrorism
By Christopher Weber
Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the Times Square bombing attempt, confessed to receiving explosives training in Pakistan, the government says. Prosecutors say Shahzad, 30, also admitted buying an SUV, rigging it with a homemade bomb and driving it Saturday into Times Square, where he tried to ...
Transcript of News Conference by Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano on Bomb Arrest
By Bruce Drake
SPEAKERS: ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER JANET NAPOLITANO, SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY NEW YORK POLICE CHIEF RAYMOND KELLY; JOHN PISTOLE, FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR [*] HOLDER: Faisal Shahzad was arrested late last night in connection with his alleged role in the attempted car bombing in Times Square ...
Times Square Bomb Attempt: Police Arrest Suspect
By Carl M. Cannon
FBI agents and detectives with the New York City Police Department arrested and jailed a Pakistani immigrant named Faisal Shahzad Monday night on suspicion of driving an explosives-laden SUV into Times Square on Saturday evening. Shahzad was taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International ...
Shahzad Car Bomb Case Unlikely to Raise Terror Law Controversy
By Andrew Cohen
The arrest late Monday night of Faisal Shahzad on suspicion that he tried to blow up a car bomb in Times Square over the weekend is unlikely to trigger any of the controversial terror law issues we've seen arise since the 9/11 attacks. Although he was born in Pakistan and traveled there recently, ...
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By Joanne Bamberger
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