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Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square Bomber: Where Is He Now?
By Dorothy Gannon - AOL NewsFaisal Shahzad was just one of a host of people who momentarily grabbed the spotlight in 2010 and dominated a news cycle or two while getting their 15 minutes of fame. In this series, AOL News is checking in on 25 of these newsmakers and giving them a 16th minute. Jewel Samad, AFP / Getty Images Faisal Shahzad may soon be incarcerated with failed shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Faisal Shahzad Made News in 2010 When He: Planted a bomb in New York City's Times Square. The Full Story: On May 1, a smoking, bomb-filled SUV was discovered in busy Times Square. Fortunately, the police bomb ...
FBI Video Shows Destruction Shahzad Could Have Caused [VIDEO]
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Oct. 5) -- Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life in prison today for attempting to blow up a car bomb in Times Square in May. Fortunately, the bomb he made out of propane tanks, gasoline and gunpowder failed to detonate, and a New York City bomb squad dismantled it before anyone was hurt. But if all had gone according to plan, he could have killed thousands of people, according to the FBI. In June, the FBI recreated the bomb Shahzad had built and detonated it in Pennsylvania. They drew their conclusions about the would-be attack from the results, and prosecutors played the video of the ...
Failed Times Square Bomber Gets Life in Prison
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 5) -- Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who tried to detonate a deadly bomb in New York's Times Square, was defiant to his judgment day. As a judge sentenced him to life in prison today, he smiled. "I'm happy with the deal that God is giving me," he said. "God is great." Judge Miriam Cedarbaum gave Shahzad the maximum sentence allowed, five months after he left a Nissan Pathfinder filled with explosives in the city's busiest tourist destination in the hopes of killing as many Americans as possible. "The defendant has shown a total lack of remorse," Cedarbaum said, ...
Failed Times Square Bomber Gets Life in Prison
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Oct. 5) -- The man who plotted to kill Americans by driving a homemade car bomb into Times Square and leaving it to explode has been sentenced to life in prison. A judge gave Faisal Shahzad a mandatory life prison term at his sentencing Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. The bomb he had packed into the back of an SUV sputtered, injuring no one in a Times Square packed with tourists. Calling himself a Muslim solider, a defiant Shahzad pleaded guilty in June to 10 terrorism and weapons counts. Shahzad, a former budget analyst from Connecticut and a Pakistani immigrant, was arrested ...
Report: Pakistan Detains Official in Times Square Plot
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Sept. 30) -- An employee of Pakistan's state-run Islamic advisory board has been detained in connection with the failed Times Square bomb plot in New York City, according to a report today. An unidentified Pakistani intelligence officer told The Associated Press that Faisal Abbasi was being held in Pakistan for allegedly acting as an accomplice to Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who has admitted to attempting to set off a car bomb in New York City in May. U.S. Marshals Service / AP Faisal Shahzad, shown here, has pleaded guilty to trying to bomb New York City's Times ...
Prosecutors Say Times Square Bomber Planned 2nd Attack
By David Lohr - AOL News
(Sept. 29) -- Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who pleaded guilty in the botched Times Square bombing, planned to detonate a second bomb in New York City, federal prosecutors said in a court filing today. "[Shahzad] had every intention of delivering a powerful and terrorizing strike to the heart of New York City," reads the memorandum, which urges a federal judge to sentence Shahzad to life in prison, The Associated Press reported. Marshals Service, AP Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad planned to detonate a second bomb in New York City two weeks after the first, according to ...
Acting Head of NY FBI Enjoyed the Hot Spotlight
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(Aug. 7) -- His title may be "acting," but there's no pretending that things haven't been outright wild, abuzz, atwitter, downright explosive since George Venizelos took over in March on a temporary basis as head of the New York FBI office, the largest in the country. There was the high-anxiety Times Square car bombing case. The Russian spy case. Key indictments of mobsters. And the roundup of 78 gang members from the Latin Kings and Bloods. And that's just to name a few. In fact, since March, his agents have had a hand in the indictment of about 330 people. "It all happened at once. It was ...
Cops: Shahzad Purposely Used Weak Materials
By Mara Gay - AOL News(July 21) -- Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad purchased less powerful materials for his homemade car bomb to avoid tipping off authorities, according to New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. "He tried to lessen the explosive nature of the fertilizer that was used because he thought he would get a higher profile as he went to buy it,'' Kelly said in a speech Tuesday at the Center for National Policy in Washington, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. U.S. Department of Justice Faisal Shahzad, the chief suspect in the attempted Times Square car bombing on May 1, ...
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 ...
Experts Preview Shahzad's Bleak Life Behind Bars
By David Lohr - AOL News(June 22) -- Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who pleaded guilty in the Times Square bombing attempt, faces life behind bars when sentenced in October. He will serve out his time at a federal penitentiary -- and experts say the possible candidates represent two very different ways for the self-proclaimed "Muslim soldier" to spend the rest of his days. Shahzad, who entered a guilty plea Monday in U.S. District Court to 10 terrorism and weapons counts, is likely to be sent to a supermax facility in Colorado or a medium/maximum facility in Indiana. Experts tell AOL News that while ...
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