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Bombing Suspect Confesses To Explosives Training
2010-05-05
Authorities have brought terrorism and mass destruction charges against the suspect in the failed Times Square car bombing, saying he has confessed to receiving explosives training in Pakistan. Charges against Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, were contained in a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan. Shahzad was arrested overnight as he attempted to leave the country on a flight.

The complaint says he confessed to buying an SUV, rigging it with a homemade bomb and driving it Saturday night into Times Square, where he tried to detonate it. The complaint says he admitted to receiving bomb-making training in Waziristan, Pakistan, but there is no mention of al-Qaida.
Was it Lashkar-i-Taiba that had taken the contract for training Al Qaeda personnel? Weren't they who David Headley had been working with for the Mumbai attack?
Sources told CBS 2 on Tuesday morning that Shahzad should have been on the United States "No Fly" terror watch list, and that because he wasn't, he was able to board the plane. Deputy FBI director John Pistole later said, however, that hewas in fact placed on the No Fly list Monday, except it was done hours before he was arrested.

Still, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declined to say how Shahzad was able to board the flight if he was on the No Fly list.
Because ICE, TSA and Secretary Napolitano are incompetent. That's how.
Because even though it looks instantaneous on your laptop, it still may take days in the analog world. How long do some of your emails take to arrive? Were Secretary Napolitano a bit quicker on the uptake, she would have explained it that way, and the question would never be asked again.
An administration source told CBS 2 News that the addition to the list was so recent that the information had not yet been populated into the system to trigger an automatic alert.

Based on what law enforcement sources told CBS 2, it's now clear that the arrest of the 30-year-old Shahzad on board the departing jet was the culmination of an elaborate, highly controlled sting operation.

Emirates Airlines flight 202 out of John F. Kennedy International Airport, which was bound for Dubai, rolled back from the gate at around 11:45 on Monday night. Shahzad was presumably all buckled in, ready to leave the country and ultimately return to his native Pakistan. CBS 2 has learned that investigators were already onto Shahzad and laid low, hoping he would make contact with an accomplice. Airport authorities had already instructed the pilots that they were not to take off.
That actually sounds pretty straightforward, not elaborate at all.
How did investigators zero-in on Shahzad? Officials said they found a bevy of evidence by examining that same SUV. NYPD officials say the VIN -- or vehicle identification number -- was scratched off the dashboard, but was also stamped on the engine block.

Agents tracked down the SUV's most recent registered owner, a 19-year-old Bridgeport, Conn. woman. She told them Shahzad responded to her online Craigslist ad for the SUV and that he bought it on April 24th for $1,300 cash and paid for it in $100 bills.

Sources also told CBS News on Tuesday morning that multiple people have been taken into custody for questioning in Pakistan in connection with the bomb plot.

Authorities are not saying who the potential suspects are or where they are being held, but they say there were raids Monday night and Tuesday morning in different locations. It's believed between four and eight people are being held, and there are reports that some of them may be related to the suspect arrested overnight in New York.
Posted by:Steve White

#12  By the way, the lies mount, there IS a second serial number it's NOT on the engine, ask any competent Bodyman and he could tell you all six locations.
Don't forger I'm a Master Mechanic I know where.
It seems the numbers are only checked when here's a Fed involved, too many are never looked for.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-05-05 20:48  

#11  It's my understanding they watched him board with the intention of recalling the plane. They wanted to give him one last chance to make a few calls to his buds in Pakistan or wherever.

Is that the current lie going around, we know it was incompetence not design.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-05-05 20:42  

#10  That must be some great "training"...

NEW YORK – A man accused of trying to detonate a car bomb in Times Square was videotaped buying consumer-grade fireworks at a Pennsylvania store that a company official said were not nearly strong enough to make a powerful bomb.

Bruce Zoldan, president of Ohio-based Phantom Fireworks, said Faisal Shahzad, 30, was captured on surveillance video buying fireworks from his company's Matamoras, Pa., showroom, within the last two months.

"The M-88 he used wouldn't damage a watermelon," Zoldan said. "Thank goodness he used that."
Posted by: tu3031   2010-05-05 15:15  

#9  Retard of Jihad

That is so politically incorrect on so many levels. I love it.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2010-05-05 12:06  

#8  Bombing Suspect Confesses To Explosives Training

Well, either the "training" sucked or he slept through it. Or he joins Richard Reid and the underwear guy as another Retard of Jihad.
Posted by: tu3031   2010-05-05 09:05  

#7  At these levels, good police work can be smartly augmented through the analysis of cellie numbers. I hope this capability has not been placed at risk by the same government entity(s) whose asses it just saved.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-05-05 09:02  

#6  Once again we have moronic reporters/editors. VINs cannot be 'scratched off the dashboard' and are never stamped on the engine block.

If they get this kind of stuff wrong, what else have they gotten wrong?
Posted by: Parabellum   2010-05-05 08:34  

#5  It's time to replace Janet Incompetano with Ray Kelly.
Posted by: Black Bart Ebberens7700   2010-05-05 06:57  

#4  I'm surprised the headlines didn't read "SUV fails to blow up Times Square".
Posted by Pappy

"Demogratic caucus subpoenas SUV executives to testify."
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-05-05 01:18  

#3  I'm surprised the headlines didn't read "SUV fails to blow up Times Square".
Posted by: Pappy   2010-05-05 01:15  

#2  She told them Shahzad responded to her online Craigslist ad for the SUV and that he bought it on April 24th for $1,300 cash and paid for it in $100 bills.

I might be able to put my hands on $1,300 in cash. Wonder if she's got a late model F-150?
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-05-05 00:42  

#1  Still, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declined to say how Shahzad was able to board the flight if he was on the No Fly list.

It's my understanding they watched him board with the intention of recalling the plane. They wanted to give him one last chance to make a few calls to his buds in Pakistan or wherever.
Posted by: gorb   2010-05-05 00:31  

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