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| 'Pakistan Taliban' behind Times Square bomb plot | |
| 2010-05-09 | |
| The United States says it has evidence that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square. Attorney General Eric Holder said they helped to facilitate the plot, and "probably helped finance it".
A Pakistani-born US citizen has been charged with the attempted bombing in New York's tourist quarter a week ago. Faisal Shazhad, 30, from Bridgeport, Connecticut, has co-operated with investigators, and admits receiving bomb-making training in the Pakistan region of Waziristan, prosecutors have said. "We've now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack," Mr Holder said on ABC television's Sunday current affairs talk show "This Week". "We know that they helped facilitate it. We know that they probably helped finance it, and that [Shahzad] was working at their direction." Mr Holder said there was nothing to suggest the government of Pakistan was aware of the plot. He also said the Obama administration was satisfied for now with the level of co-operation it was receiving from the Pakistani authorities into the investigation of the attempted bombing. | |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #5 "We know that they helped facilitate it. We know that they probably helped finance it, and that [Shahzad] was working at their direction." But it took awhile to reach this conclusion because we had to be PC and look at the subversive grandmothers, the Amish, the radical right-wing branch of the Mormons, and a bunch of subversive white guys in the Tea Party. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-09 12:21 |
| #4 Contessa Brewer weeps |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-05-09 11:24 |
| #3 I get the feeling that Democrats must be very disappointed to find out that the perp, was not, after all some " White Dude " as first reported.How inconvenient that the perp is a Paki Taliban. |
| Posted by: Dave UK 2010-05-09 11:18 |
| #2 "We know that they helped facilitate it. We know that they probably helped finance it, and that [Shahzad] was working at their direction." Brilliant mind, that Eric Holder. Absolutely brilliant. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-05-09 11:16 |
| #1 The way Bush would have responded to this news should make a nice contrast to how Obama will by the time the 2012 campaign season gets underway. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2010-05-09 09:37 |