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NY Bomber Calls Plot 'Revenge' for 'Martyrs'
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(July 14) -- A video has surfaced of failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad in which he describes his planned bombing as a "revenge attack." "I hope that the hearts of the Muslims will be pleased with this attack," Shahzad says in the video, posted on the BBC's website. "You will see that the Muslim war has just started." The video was broadcast on the al-Arabiya TV station. In it, Shahzad, 30, is dressed in traditional Pakistani clothes and speaks in English. In a court appearance last month, Shahzad pleaded guilty to an attempt to blow up a car with a gasoline-and-propane bomb in ...
Car Bomb in Times Square: Send in the Clowns
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Times Square Bomb Suspect Faisal Shahzad and the Miranda Warning
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe arrest of Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad early Tuesday morning bared a clear fault line among Washington lawmakers over the proper role of the famous Miranda warning in cases involving terror suspects. Several prominent Republican lawmakers, including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), quickly criticized the Obama administration for allowing its law enforcement officials to read Shahzad his rights while the scope of the attempted attack remained unknown. When it turned out that Shahzad was a U.S. citizen, and thus least likely to be deprived of constitutional rights, Sen. Joseph ...
Botched Times Square Bombing at Center of Boehner-Pelosi Battle
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyA war of words broke out on Capitol Hill Thursday over what accounted for the failure of the attempted bombing in Times Square. House Minority Leader John Boehner accused the Obama administration of lacking a real strategy to fight terror at home or around the globe. "We have been lucky, but luck is not an effective strategy for fighting terrorism," Boehner said. "This is a nation at war. "The Obama administration has spoon-fed the American people with bland reassurances, saying this was a 'one-off' and a 'lone wolf.' This is the rhetoric of an administration that continues to operate ...
After the Times Square Bomber: What Is Obama's Terrorism Strategy?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThe 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 York Police Department. The FBI lost Shahzad on his way to Kennedy International Airport on Monday night and his name on the do-not-fly list failed to prevent him from initially boarding an Emirates jet to Dubai. But from the moment a street vendor alerted a mounted police officer in Times Square ...
Airlines Ordered to Check No-Fly List More Often
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyAlarmed that terror suspect Faisal Shahzad boarded a Dubai-bound Emirates Airlines flight even though his name was on a no-fly list, the government is going to require carriers to check the list within two hours of being notified of changes, the AP reported Wednesday. Emirates did not check for Faisal, but he was nabbed before the flight took off from New York's Kennedy airport, thanks to a last-minute look at the plane's manifest, where his name popped up. The Department of Homeland Security has required airlines to check the no-fly list every 24 hours. Faisal's name was added shortly after ...
After the Times Square Bomb: Living in the No. 1 Terrorist Target
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyWhen 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 building. I rushed up to my apartment and turned on the TV. Up until that moment I had envisioned a single-motor small plane from Teterboro airport in New Jersey running into a skyscraper. But what I was seeing on my TV screen was incredible: a commercial plane carrying more than 100 passengers had ...
Shahzad Arrest Ignites Debate Over Miranda Warnings for Accused Terrorists
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyA debate over whether suspected Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad should have been read his Miranda rights reached Capitol Hill Tuesday, with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer saying doing so was the correct course of action. Law enforcement officials said they first interrogated Shahzad under a public safety exception, in case another attack was imminent, but then read him his Miranda rights, which he waived. "This is a U.S. citizen, arrested on U.S. soil, and subject to the constitutional protections and constraints of every U.S. citizen. He is obviously suspected of committing a crime, ...
Times Square Bomb Attempt: Police Arrest Suspect
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyFBI 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 Airport after being removed from a plane about to take off for Dubai, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Department of Justice. Attorney General Eric Holder said at a news conference the suspect was cooperating with investigators and admitted involvement in the attempted bombing. (Read a ...
Times Square Bomb: The Growing Threat of 'Improvised' Explosives
By David Wood - Politics DailyAdd Times Square to the growing list of places like Peshawar, Kandahar or any crowded Iraqi market where car bombs, suicide bombers and IEDs are now a deadly threat. Expertise in making bombs -- especially using common materials like those found in the smoldering Times Square truck bomb Saturday night -- is spreading like wildfire across the globe with technical data and training widely shared among terrorist groups, experts have found. In Afghanistan, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) or roadside bombs have killed 89 Americans so far this year. The dead include three in the past week: ...
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