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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 ...
Arrests in Times Square Bomb Probe: Three in U.S., One in Pakistan
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFour arrests were reported Thursday in the investigation of the attempted car bombing in Times Square, including a suspect picked up in Pakistan who officials said has connections to the Taliban. Pakistani officials said the suspect has admitted helping accused bomber Faisal Shahzad travel into Pakistan's tribal areas for bomb training, The Washington Post reported. The new suspect provided an "independent stream" of evidence that the Pakistani Taliban may have been behind the May 1 attack, authorities said. Earlier, a spokesman for U.S. customs confirmed that three people connected to the ...
Pakistani Taliban Directed Times Square Bomb Attempt, Officials Say
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyTop Obama administration officials Sunday said that the Pakistani Taliban, which had claimed credit for the failed attempt by Faisal Shahzad to set off a car bomb in New York's crowded Times Square on May 1, did in fact that mastermind the plot. Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking on ABC's This Week and NBC's Meet the Press, said, "We've now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack." "We know that they helped facilitate it," Holder said. "We know that they probably helped finance it. And that he (Shahzad) was working at their direction." Holder also ...
Car Bomb in Times Square: Send in the Clowns
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Customs Officer Hailed for Helping Capture Times Square Bombing Suspect
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyTimes Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad was arrested last week with just moments to spare before his flight to Dubai took off, and federal authorities have a vigilant Customs officer to thank for the last-minute capture. Officer Daniel Donohue was hailed by ABC News as its Person of the Week for spotting Shahzad among the hundreds of names on lists and databases he reads through every day at the Customs and Border Protection's National Targeting Center in Virginia. Beginning his shift last Monday, Donohue was told Shahzad was a person of interest in the New York City bomb attempt. ...
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 ...
Times Square Bomb Attempt Seen as Failure for Homeland Security, Poll Says
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA plurality of voters think the attempted bombing in Times Square was a failure for the Homeland Security Department because the suspect was able to leave his car in Times Square with explosives in it, and unlike the case of the would-be Christmas Day bomber, the public is divided on whether Faisal Shahzad should be tried as an enemy combatant,according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted May 4-5. Forty-seven percent labeled security efforts a failure because of Shahzad's ability to get the bomb-laden SUV into a busy part of the city and park it before a T-shirt vendor saw smoke ...
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 ...
Taliban Likely Had Role in Times Square Bomb Attempt, Report Says
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyMounting 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 reported. After two days of questioning Shahzad, according to the Times, officials have evidence that the Taliban helped train and inspire the man charged with leaving a smoking, explosives-laden SUV at an intersection in Times Square Saturday night. The report did not identify the investigators ...
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 ...
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