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==Background== ==Background==
Shahzad is a Muslim ] U.S. citizen of ] ethnic backround<ref name="Time">, ], by Tony Karon with Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson. May 05, 2010.</ref><ref name="IE"></ref>{{Dubious|date= May 2010}} or ] extraction,<ref></ref>{{Dubious|date= May 2010}} the youngest of four children. He was born in ], thought the precise location of his birth has been reported variously as ], ], the village Mohib Banda (near ]),<ref>Julie McCarthy, , ], May 5th 2010: ''The village of Mohib Banda, in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, is the ancestral family home of Faisal Shahzad, the alleged Times Square bomber. Ahmed is the former mayor in Mohib Banda and a close friend of Shahzad's father, retired Vice Air Marshal Baharul Haq. Ahmed says the case of Faisal Shahzad is a shame on the village, and tragic for the family. "This is a tragedy for me and every Pakistani, every Pashtun," he says.''</ref> or Pabi (a village in ] east of Peshwar).<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2010/05/04/dispatch-from-pakistan-shahzad-visited-peshawar-in-2009/ |title=Dispatch From Pakistan: Shahzad Visited Peshawar in 2009|newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=May 4, 2010|location=]|last=Hussain|first=Zahid|accessdate=May 4, 2010}}</ref><ref name="nytimes1" /><ref name="autogenerated71">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/nyregion/05plane.html |title=Lapses Allowed Suspect to Board Plane|newspaper=New York Times |date=May 5, 2010|last=Hussain|first=Zahid|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref> He comes from a wealthy, well-educated family from northwest Pakistan.<ref name="CNN1"/> His father, Baharul Haq, lives in a suburb of Peshawar, was a senior official in the ], holding the rank of ] (the equivalent of a ]) before leaving the air force in 1992,<ref name="CNN1"/><ref name="family">{{cite news|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=237595|title=Faisal Shahzad’s father vacates Peshawar house|publisher=The News International|location=Pakistan|author=Javed Aziz Khan and Mushtaq Paracha|date=May 5, 2010|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref> and is a deputy director general of the ].<ref name="aviation">{{cite news|url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/05/04/13819271-ap.html|title=Several arrested in Pakistan|publisher=CNews|author=Ashraf Khan and Riaz Khan|agency=Associated Press|date=May 4, 2010|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref><ref>This case is co-incidentally similar to that of ], half-brother of Danyal Gilani, spokesman for the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gillani.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}</ref> Shahzad is a Muslim ] U.S. citizen of ] ethnic backround<ref name="Time">, ], by Tony Karon with Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson. May 05, 2010.</ref><ref name="IE"></ref>{{Dubious|date= May 2010}} or ] extraction,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/06/times-square-bomber-immigration-opinions-columnists-melik-kaylan-assimilation.html?boxes=Homepagechannels |title=Immigration, Terror And Assimilation |publisher=Forbes.com |date= |accessdate=May 10, 2010}}</ref>{{Dubious|date= May 2010}} the youngest of four children. He was born in ], thought the precise location of his birth has been reported variously as ], ], the village Mohib Banda (near ]),<ref>Julie McCarthy, , ], May 5th 2010: ''The village of Mohib Banda, in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, is the ancestral family home of Faisal Shahzad, the alleged Times Square bomber. Ahmed is the former mayor in Mohib Banda and a close friend of Shahzad's father, retired Vice Air Marshal Baharul Haq. Ahmed says the case of Faisal Shahzad is a shame on the village, and tragic for the family. "This is a tragedy for me and every Pakistani, every Pashtun," he says.''</ref> or Pabi (a village in ] east of Peshwar).<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2010/05/04/dispatch-from-pakistan-shahzad-visited-peshawar-in-2009/ |title=Dispatch From Pakistan: Shahzad Visited Peshawar in 2009|newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=May 4, 2010|location=]|last=Hussain|first=Zahid|accessdate=May 4, 2010}}</ref><ref name="nytimes1" /><ref name="autogenerated71">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/nyregion/05plane.html |title=Lapses Allowed Suspect to Board Plane|newspaper=New York Times |date=May 5, 2010|last=Hussain|first=Zahid|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref> He comes from a wealthy, well-educated family from northwest Pakistan.<ref name="CNN1"/> His father, Baharul Haq, lives in a suburb of Peshawar, was a senior official in the ], holding the rank of ] (the equivalent of a ]) before leaving the air force in 1992,<ref name="CNN1"/><ref name="family">{{cite news|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=237595|title=Faisal Shahzad’s father vacates Peshawar house|publisher=The News International|location=Pakistan|author=Javed Aziz Khan and Mushtaq Paracha|date=May 5, 2010|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref> and is a deputy director general of the ].<ref name="aviation">{{cite news|url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/05/04/13819271-ap.html|title=Several arrested in Pakistan|publisher=CNews|author=Ashraf Khan and Riaz Khan|agency=Associated Press|date=May 4, 2010|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref><ref>This case is co-incidentally similar to that of ], half-brother of Danyal Gilani, spokesman for the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gillani.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}</ref>


Shahzad attended primary school in Saudi Arabia, according to documents found outside his Shelton home, and then attended several schools in Pakistan.<ref name="nydailynews2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/04/2010-05-04_who_is_faisal_shahzad_alleged_times_square_car_bomber.html |title=Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad 'was just a normal dude' before making neighbors suspicious |publisher=Nydailynews.com |date=April 28, 2010 |accessdate=May 6, 2010}}</ref> He has an identification card indicating he is a resident of Karachi.<ref name="CNN1"/> Kifayat Ali, a man who said he is a cousin of Shahzad's father, insisted that Shahzad's family had no political affiliations, adding that the arrest appeared as a "conspiracy" and "He was never linked to any political or religious party ."<ref name=cnews>{{cite web|url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/05/04/13819271-ap.html |title=CNews Several Arrested in Pakistan |publisher=Cnews.canoe.ca |date=May 2010|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref> Shahzad attended primary school in Saudi Arabia, according to documents found outside his Shelton home, and then attended several schools in Pakistan.<ref name="nydailynews2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/04/2010-05-04_who_is_faisal_shahzad_alleged_times_square_car_bomber.html |title=Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad 'was just a normal dude' before making neighbors suspicious |publisher=Nydailynews.com |date=April 28, 2010 |accessdate=May 6, 2010}}</ref> He has an identification card indicating he is a resident of Karachi.<ref name="CNN1"/> Kifayat Ali, a man who said he is a cousin of Shahzad's father, insisted that Shahzad's family had no political affiliations, adding that the arrest appeared as a "conspiracy" and "He was never linked to any political or religious party ."<ref name=cnews>{{cite web|url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/05/04/13819271-ap.html |title=CNews Several Arrested in Pakistan |publisher=Cnews.canoe.ca |date=May 2010|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref>
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Shahzad worked as a junior ] in the accounting department at the ] cosmetics company in ], while he was still working on his master's degree from January 2002 and until June 15, 2006, when he resigned to work elsewhere.<ref name=mmwifs/> Shahzad worked as a junior ] in the accounting department at the ] cosmetics company in ], while he was still working on his master's degree from January 2002 and until June 15, 2006, when he resigned to work elsewhere.<ref name=mmwifs/>


In 2004, in an ], he married Huma Asif Mian, a Colorado-born U.S. citizen who had just graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder.<ref name="nytimes7">{{cite news|last=Barron |first=James |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/nyregion/06profile.html |title=Shahzad’s Friends Describe a Growing Seriousness |publisher=NYTimes.com |date= |accessdate=May 6, 2010}}</ref><ref name="nytimes2"/><ref name="nydailynews2"/> She and her Pakistani-born parents had lived in Qatar and Colorado; her parents now live in Saudi Arabia.<ref name="nytimes7"/> A neighbor recalled Shahzad visited the family only once before she joined him in Connecticut. On her social networking page, Shahzad's wife lists her languages as English, ], ], and French, her religion as Muslim and her political view as "nonpolitical."<ref name=cnews/> Her father, Mohammad Asif Mian, is a petroleum engineering expert who has written a number of books and technical manuals, worked for companies such as ] and Qatar General Petroleum, and has two master's degrees from ].<ref></ref> In 2004, in an ], he married Huma Asif Mian, a Colorado-born U.S. citizen who had just graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder.<ref name="nytimes7">{{cite news|last=Barron |first=James |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/nyregion/06profile.html |title=Shahzad’s Friends Describe a Growing Seriousness |publisher=NYTimes.com |date= |accessdate=May 6, 2010}}</ref><ref name="nytimes2"/><ref name="nydailynews2"/> She and her Pakistani-born parents had lived in Qatar and Colorado; her parents now live in Saudi Arabia.<ref name="nytimes7"/> A neighbor recalled Shahzad visited the family only once before she joined him in Connecticut. On her social networking page, Shahzad's wife lists her languages as English, ], ], and French, her religion as Muslim and her political view as "nonpolitical."<ref name=cnews/> Her father, Mohammad Asif Mian, is a petroleum engineering expert who has written a number of books and technical manuals, worked for companies such as ] and Qatar General Petroleum, and has two master's degrees from ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/08/terror-budget-times-square-car-bomb-plot-cost-little/ |title=Terror on a budget: Times Square car bomb plot could have cost as little as $7,000 |publisher=FOXNews.com |date= |accessdate=May 10, 2010}}</ref>


He bought a condominium in Norwalk, Connecticut, which he sold in May 2004 to computer consultant George LaMonica. LaMonica was interviewed afterward by investigators from the national Joint Terrorism Task Force, regarding details of the transactions and information about Shahzad.<ref>{{cite news|author=James Barron and Michael S. Schmidt |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/nyregion/05profile.html |title=From Suburban Father to a Terrorism Suspect|publisher=New York Times |date=May 5, 2010|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref> He bought a condominium in Norwalk, Connecticut, which he sold in May 2004 to computer consultant George LaMonica. LaMonica was interviewed afterward by investigators from the national Joint Terrorism Task Force, regarding details of the transactions and information about Shahzad.<ref>{{cite news|author=James Barron and Michael S. Schmidt |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/nyregion/05profile.html |title=From Suburban Father to a Terrorism Suspect|publisher=New York Times |date=May 5, 2010|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref>
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Shahzad was granted a ] (a "green card") in January 2006.<ref name="nytimes1"/> He bought a single-family three-bedroom home in ], just outside Bridgeport in 2006, at which the family lived.<ref name=mmwifs/><ref name="nytimes3"/> From mid-June 2006 to June 2009, Shahzad worked as a junior ],a position paying an estimated $55,000 to $80,000, for ], an ] and consulting business<ref>{{cite web|author=Daniel Trotta and Zeeshan Haider |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6410CK20100504 |title=NY bomb suspect said to admit plot, Pakistan training|publisher=Reuters |date=May 4, 2010|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref> then located at 100 Connecticut Avenue, ].<ref name=mmwifs/> Shahzad was granted a ] (a "green card") in January 2006.<ref name="nytimes1"/> He bought a single-family three-bedroom home in ], just outside Bridgeport in 2006, at which the family lived.<ref name=mmwifs/><ref name="nytimes3"/> From mid-June 2006 to June 2009, Shahzad worked as a junior ],a position paying an estimated $55,000 to $80,000, for ], an ] and consulting business<ref>{{cite web|author=Daniel Trotta and Zeeshan Haider |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6410CK20100504 |title=NY bomb suspect said to admit plot, Pakistan training|publisher=Reuters |date=May 4, 2010|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref> then located at 100 Connecticut Avenue, ].<ref name=mmwifs/>


He was granted U.S. citizenship on April 17, 2009, due to his marriage to his wife.<ref name="nytimes2">{{cite news|last=Barron |first=James |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/nyregion/05profile.html |title=Suspect in Times Square Bomb Case Became Citizen After 10 Years in U.S. |publisher=NYTimes.com |date= |accessdate=May 4, 2010}}</ref>.<ref name="CNN1"/> A few weeks later, he abruptly quit his job and stopped making payments on his house, defaulting on the $218,400 mortgage.<ref name=mmwifs/> He moved out around May 2009, with his wife following about a month later. Shahzad and his family moved to Pakistan.<ref name="nytimes3"/> He then defaulted on his $200,000 mortgage, and was sued by the bank in September 2009 as it foreclosed on his home.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lane |first=Charles |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/05/faisal_shahzad_violent_fanatic.html |title=PostPartisan - Faisal Shahzad: violent fanatic, or unhappy homeowner? |publisher=Voices.washingtonpost.com |date= |accessdate=May 9, 2010}}</ref><ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/nyregion/05profile.html|title=From Suburban Father to a Terrorism Suspect|date=May 4, 2010|accessdate=May 4, 2010|newspaper=New York Times|last=Barron|first=James|coauthors=Michael S. Schmidt}}</ref> A Shelton neighbor said that Shahzad and his wife had two young children, a girl and a boy.<ref name="nytimes3"/>{{Failed verification}} He was granted U.S. citizenship on April 17, 2009, due to his marriage to his wife.<ref name="nytimes2">{{cite news|last=Barron |first=James |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/nyregion/05profile.html |title=Suspect in Times Square Bomb Case Became Citizen After 10 Years in U.S. |publisher=NYTimes.com |date= |accessdate=May 4, 2010}}</ref><ref name="CNN1"/> A few weeks later, he abruptly quit his job and stopped making payments on his house, defaulting on the $218,400 mortgage.<ref name=mmwifs/> He moved out around May 2009, with his wife following about a month later. Shahzad and his family moved to Pakistan.<ref name="nytimes3"/> He then defaulted on his $200,000 mortgage, and was sued by the bank in September 2009 as it foreclosed on his home.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lane |first=Charles |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/05/faisal_shahzad_violent_fanatic.html |title=PostPartisan - Faisal Shahzad: violent fanatic, or unhappy homeowner? |publisher=Voices.washingtonpost.com |date= |accessdate=May 9, 2010}}</ref><ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/nyregion/05profile.html|title=From Suburban Father to a Terrorism Suspect|date=May 4, 2010|accessdate=May 4, 2010|newspaper=New York Times|last=Barron|first=James|coauthors=Michael S. Schmidt}}</ref> A Shelton neighbor said that Shahzad and his wife had two young children, a girl and a boy.<ref name="nytimes3"/>{{Failed verification}}


==Attempted bombing of Times Square== ==Attempted bombing of Times Square==

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Faisal Shahzad
Born (1979-06-30) June 30, 1979 (age 45)
Pakistan
NationalityPakistani-American
CitizenshipPakistani/American
Alma materSoutheastern University; University of Bridgeport (B.A. in computer science and engineering (2002); M.B.A. (2005))
OccupationFormer financial analyst
Known forArrested as prime suspect in 2010 Times Square car bomb attempt
Height5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Criminal charge(s)5 counts of terrorism-related crimes:
1) Attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction;
2) Attempting to kill and maim people in the U.S.;
3) Using and carrying a destructive device;
4) Transporting an explosive device;
5) Attempting to damage building, vehicles, and other property
Criminal penaltyIf convicted, faces up to life in prison.
Criminal statusIncarcerated, charged, and awaiting formal indictment by federal grand jury
SpouseHuma Asif Mian
Children2
Parent(s)Father, former Pakistani Air Force Air Vice Marshal Baharul Haq
Relatives3 siblings

Faisal Shahzad (Urdu: فیصل شہزاد; born June 30, 1979) is a Muslim Pakistani-American being held in police custody in New York City as the prime suspect in the May 1, 2010, Times Square car bomb attempt, to which he has reportedly confessed.

Shahzad was arrested approximately 53 hours after the attempt, at 11:45 p.m. EDT on May 3, 2010, by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. He was taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International Airport, after boarding Emirates Flight 202 to Dubai. His final destination had been Islamabad, Pakistan.

A federal complaint was filed on May 4, alleging that Shahzad committed five terrorism-related crimes, including the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Shahzad waived his constitutional right to a speedy hearing. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.

Shahzad has reportedly implicated himself in the crimes, and given information to authorities since his arrest, and since receiving Miranda warnings. CBS News reported that Shahzad admitted training in bomb-making at a terrorist camp in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. As of May 7, Shahzad was continuing to answer questions and provide intelligence to investigators. Over a dozen people were arrested by Pakistani officials in connection with the plot.

Background

Shahzad is a Muslim naturalized U.S. citizen of Kashmiri ethnic backround or Pashtun extraction, the youngest of four children. He was born in Pakistan, thought the precise location of his birth has been reported variously as Karachi, Kashmir, the village Mohib Banda (near Peshawar), or Pabi (a village in Nowshera District east of Peshwar). He comes from a wealthy, well-educated family from northwest Pakistan. His father, Baharul Haq, lives in a suburb of Peshawar, was a senior official in the Pakistan Air Force, holding the rank of Air Vice-Marshal (the equivalent of a two-star general) before leaving the air force in 1992, and is a deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan.

Shahzad attended primary school in Saudi Arabia, according to documents found outside his Shelton home, and then attended several schools in Pakistan. He has an identification card indicating he is a resident of Karachi. Kifayat Ali, a man who said he is a cousin of Shahzad's father, insisted that Shahzad's family had no political affiliations, adding that the arrest appeared as a "conspiracy" and "He was never linked to any political or religious party ."

Shahzad studied for five semesters in 1997 and 1998 at the now-defunct Southeastern University in Washington, D.C., where he took mostly business classes, receiving several Cs and Ds, an F in basic statistics, and a grade point average of 2.78. In December 1998 he was granted an F-1 student visa. In 1999 he was placed on a US government travel lookout list called the "Traveler Enforcement Compliance System." In 2000 he transferred to the University of Bridgeport. Shahzad's former teachers at the University of Bridgeport said he appeared to be quiet and unremarkable. He received a B.A. in computer science and engineering, with his parents attending his graduation on May 13, 2002. Just before graduation, in April 2002, he was granted an H1-B visa for skilled workers. He remained in the U.S. for three years on that visa, earning an M.B.A at the University of Bridgeport in the summer of 2005.

Shahzad worked as a junior financial analyst in the accounting department at the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company in Stamford, Connecticut, while he was still working on his master's degree from January 2002 and until June 15, 2006, when he resigned to work elsewhere.

In 2004, in an arranged marriage, he married Huma Asif Mian, a Colorado-born U.S. citizen who had just graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She and her Pakistani-born parents had lived in Qatar and Colorado; her parents now live in Saudi Arabia. A neighbor recalled Shahzad visited the family only once before she joined him in Connecticut. On her social networking page, Shahzad's wife lists her languages as English, Pashto, Urdu, and French, her religion as Muslim and her political view as "nonpolitical." Her father, Mohammad Asif Mian, is a petroleum engineering expert who has written a number of books and technical manuals, worked for companies such as Saudi Aramco and Qatar General Petroleum, and has two master's degrees from Colorado School of Mines.

He bought a condominium in Norwalk, Connecticut, which he sold in May 2004 to computer consultant George LaMonica. LaMonica was interviewed afterward by investigators from the national Joint Terrorism Task Force, regarding details of the transactions and information about Shahzad.

Shahzad was granted a permanent residence status (a "green card") in January 2006. He bought a single-family three-bedroom home in Shelton, Connecticut, just outside Bridgeport in 2006, at which the family lived. From mid-June 2006 to June 2009, Shahzad worked as a junior financial analyst,a position paying an estimated $55,000 to $80,000, for Affinion Group, an affinity marketing and consulting business then located at 100 Connecticut Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut.

He was granted U.S. citizenship on April 17, 2009, due to his marriage to his wife. A few weeks later, he abruptly quit his job and stopped making payments on his house, defaulting on the $218,400 mortgage. He moved out around May 2009, with his wife following about a month later. Shahzad and his family moved to Pakistan. He then defaulted on his $200,000 mortgage, and was sued by the bank in September 2009 as it foreclosed on his home. A Shelton neighbor said that Shahzad and his wife had two young children, a girl and a boy.

Attempted bombing of Times Square

Main article: 2010 Times Square car bomb attempt

Reported preparations

On July 3, 2009, he reportedly traveled to Pakistan and is believed to have visited Peshawar, a gateway to the militant-occupied tribal regions of Pakistan and stayed there from July 7 to July 22. While in Pakistan, he said he trained at a terrorist training camp in what was believed to be Waziristan, according to law enforcement officials.

Shahzad's most recent stay in Pakistan lasted for five months; he returned to the U.S. on February 3, 2010, on an Emirates flight from Dubai.

Shahzad was believed to have bought the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder which was used in the car bomb attempt within three weeks prior to the incident. The vehicle was purchased through an ad on Craigslist, for $1,300 which Shahzad reportedly paid a Connecticut woman for in $100 bills. The money was paid and the car turned over at a Connecticut shopping center, without any formal paperwork being exchanged.

Arrest and charges

Shahzad was arrested approximately 53 hours after the incident, at 11:45 p.m. EDT on May 3, 2010, by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents (though at least one other source claims that he was captured by New York detectives and FBI agents ). He was taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International Airport, as he sat on board Emirate Airlines Flight 202 to Dubai before the plane had moved from the gate. His final destination was to have been Islamabad, Pakistan.

Lapses in security allowed Shahzad to board the plane. He had been placed on the no-fly list on Monday, May 3 at 12:30 p.m. when investigators became more certain he was a suspect. Investigators then lost track of Shahzad before he drove to the airport on the evening of May 3, and did not know he was planning to leave the country. The Emirates airline did not check the no-fly list for added names at 6:30 p.m. when Shahzad made a reservation, or at 7:35 p.m. when he purchased the ticket at JFK airport with cash. Shahzad was later allowed to board the plane. However, a routine post boarding check at 11:00 p.m. revealed that Shahzad was on the no-fly list. Within minutes, agents boarded the plane which was still at the gate and arrested him.

Shortly after the arrest, Attorney General Holder said "Based on what we know so far, it is clear that this was a terrorist plot aimed at murdering Americans in one of the busiest places in our country". Holder later said that Shahzad had admitted involvement in the incident, and that Shahzad was providing useful information.

According to Deputy FBI Director John Pistole, Shahzad was initially interrogated under the public safety exception to the Miranda rule, cooperated with authorities, and was later read his Miranda rights. He continued to cooperate and provide information after he was read the rights.

The FBI and NYPD searched Shahzad's Bridgeport, Connecticut home on May 4, at Sheridan Street and Boston Avenue, removing filled plastic bags. Materials related to the bomb were found in his apartment, including boxes that had contained the alarm clocks, and his car at the airport had a 9mm Kel-Tec SUB-2000 carbine with five full magazines of ammunition, according to law enforcement officials.

The complaint filed in federal court on May 4, 2010 charges Shahzad with five counts of terrorism-related crimes: 1) Attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, 2) Attempting to kill and maim people in the U.S., 3) Using and carrying a destructive device, 4) Transporting an explosive device, and, 5) Attempting to damage building, vehicles, and other property. If he is convicted on these charges, he faces up to life in prison.

International ties and investigation

It was reported that Pakistani authorities arrested a number of suspects in the investigation of the attempted car bombing, including two or three people at a house where Shahzad is said to have stayed. Pakistani intelligence officials said a man named Tauseef, who was a friend of Shahzad, was detained in Karachi in connection with the case. Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat, said Pakistani officials arrested “alleged facilitators” as part of a “far broader investigation.”.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Shahzad received bomb-making training from the Pakistan Taliban. According to CBS News, Shahzad has been on the Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list since 1999 because he has been bringing in large amounts of cash (approximately $80,000) into the United States.

See also

  • David Headley, Chicago-based Pakistani-American, and half-brother of Pakistani Prime Minister's spokesman, made contact with al-Qaeda during trips to Waziristan and conspired with Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistani ex-military officers to launch the 2008 Mumbai attacks and other terrorist activity
  • Aafia Siddiqui, U.S.-educated Pakistani alleged al-Qaeda member, arrested in Afghanistan with bomb-making documents and convicted in February 2010 of attempted murder and armed assault
  • 2009 detention of Americans by Pakistan, five Muslim Americans charged by Pakistan in 2010 with terrorism-related offenses
  • Immigration law in the U.S.

References

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