Pakistani Officials Arrests 5 Facilitators In Connection to Times Square Bomb Plot
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 6:23 AM
Pakistani authorities arrested a man today in connection with the Times Square bomb plot.
Democrat Faisal Shahzad was arrested last night for attempting to blow up a car on Saturday Night in the heart of New York City.
Faisal Shahzad was arreste with with three other men, one of whom was believed to be his roommate. There was a handgun found in the car they took to the airport.
CNN video, via BreitbartTV:
FOX News reported:
A man has been arrested in Karachi in connection with the investigation of the Times Square bombing attempt, Pakistani intelligence sources told Fox News.
The capture comes after the arrest of a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen, who was minutes away from fleeing the U.S. when his Dubai-bound flight was returned to its gate at New York’s Kennedy Airport and U.S. officials escorted him from the plane, along with two other men.
The suspect, Faisal Shahzad, will appear in court Tuesday to face charges that he tried to set off a massive fireball and kill Americans after parking his car on a street lined with restaurants and Broadway theaters, federal authorities said.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan was handling the case against Shahzad, 30, but has not yet made the charges against him public. FBI agents searched the home at a known address for Shahzad in Bridgeport, Conn., early Tuesday, said agent Kimberly Mertz, who wouldn’t answer questions about the search.
Authorities removed filled plastic bags from the house overnight in a mixed-race, working-class neighborhood of multi-family homes in Connecticut’s largest city. A bomb squad came and went without entering as local police and FBI agents gathered in the cordoned-off street.
Shahzad told authorities last night that he acted alone.
Guess not.
The Montreal Gazette reported:
Shahzad, 30, was due to appear in federal court later on Tuesday to face charges of “driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1,” officials said. Had the bomb detonated, many people could have died, experts said.
“He’s admitted to buying the truck, putting the devices together, putting them in the truck, leaving the truck there and leaving the scene,” the law enforcement source told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
UPDATE: Pakistani officials arrested 5 men connected to the Times Square bomber.
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P. Aaron commented:
Not a TEA Partier?!!!! NOOOOoooooooooo!
NeoKong commented:
It was reported that upon hearing the news that the bomber was from Pakistan and not born here that Janet Napolitano flew into a rage and Barack Obama was inconsolable.
Militant Conservative commented:
We on the right love our country and those that legally come here to seek prosparity. YOU on the left hat America and the system by which it operates.
Prove me wrong, powder is dry.
Chip Bennett commented:
Bill Hennessey and Dana Loesch have been making clandestine trips to Islamabad again, haven’t they?
Those darn TEA partiers, spreading their message of hate and violence internationally…
/sarcasm
firewifem commented:
But Mayor Bloomberg said it was probably someone who was upset about healthcare? How could he be wrong?
Opus #6 commented:
Glad to hear Pakistan is following up on this. Perhaps they will do the job that Obama won’t. Like interrogate.
Bill H commented:
Those Pakistani Tea Partiers must really be upset about the health care bill.
Good thing for the dems it wasn’t a bunch of Mexican illegal aliens.
Don Rodrigo commented:
Instead of planting a fertilizer bomb, that douche should have dumped a load of the stuff on Bloomberg.
Stuart commented:
They arrested Shahzad and two other men on the plane. Once again TSA springs into action to make sure our airways are safe. …. Well actually not.
But what a tragedy if these terrorists had been racially profiled and forbidden to fly. Ya I know, I’m such a racist. Ain’t dat a shame!
Finncrisp commented:
Mayor Bloomberg owes Americans an appology. He was certainly fast and loose with his facts, and the man was wrong. Feckless….
Joe commented:
Michael Bloomberg, Nancy & Christine Pelosi, Chris Matthews, Jarrold Nadler, Bob Beckel, Jonathan Alter, leftie professors, etc. :
“All you people in the tea party movement, we’re getting really impatient with you! What’s with you guys?! It’s been months and months since you guys started, and not one act of violence out of you! We haven’t had a good right-wing terrorist attack in, what, 15 years? Will at least one of you please, PLEASE, commit a terrorist attack or something so we can at long last justify our suspicion and hatred of you?”
Betsy Ross commented:
You can’t tell me that there aren’t more of these terrorists right here in America…when will WE make more arrests?
mike191 commented:
The narrative of working alone is gone, angry bald men gone,people against health care law going cold,tea party members on hold-that leaves the Amish or the religion of peace as the usual suspects for parked cars with bombs.What say you: Bloomberg,Contesa Brewer?
bg commented:
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via USA Today link..
[He said the incident is "another sobering reminder of the times
in which we live," but that Americas will not give in to terror.]
in Obama speak that means they’re running the
show, ergo, we are not giving in, we’re obliging..
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iconoclast commented:
So much for the notion that the law enforcement approach worked. These enemies were able to operate in the USA with impunity. They were only caught AFTER the attack.
Trying them in court with all the protections due to US residents is suicidal. Put them in Gitmo, give them a military tribunal, then hang them.
jorgen commented:
Pakistani officials arrested 5 men connected to the Times Square bomber.
Wow, these Tea Party-people, Bloomberg talked about, really get around!
Highlander commented:
Boy, you have to hand it to them. Those tea-partying, right-wing nuts have shown amazing resourcefulness and cunning by enlisting Pakistanis in their nefarious designs on Obama’s superior vision for America.
kansas commented:
In other news, Contessa Brewer is demoralized that the perpetrator was not a teabagger.
bg commented:
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via USA Today link..
[Update at 1:31 p.m. ET: Holder called the case "a terrorist plot aimed
at murdering Americans in one of the busiest places in our country."]
suffice to say, in typical liberal fashion, the logic is to give the big kahuna citizenship, bring him & his cohorts to NYC & put on a costly spectacle of a trial vs keeping them in GITMO & judging them (proud terrorists) by a military tribunal, or do what they should have done in the first place, put him up against a wall & shoot the (fitb), gah!!
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bg commented:
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Betsy Ross @ 11:33 am #14
re: [when will WE make more arrests?]
dare i say whenever they get their act together..
[The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has sat on her
hands while CIA Director Leon Panetta methodically dismantled and marginalized the oversight responsibilities of the Office of the Inspector General.]
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bg commented:
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iconoclast @ 11:49 am #17
just read your post..
hang/shoot/whatever, we couldn’t agree more..
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Warthog commented:
Why do the Pakistanis hate health care?
(I just don’t get it…)
Opaobie commented:
Did they scrape the “Obama 2012″ bumper sticker off of the car yet?
daryl commented:
Found the link to this at FreeRepublic.
Times Square Bomber, Is a Registered Democrat
http://conservativedatingsite.com/blog/2010/05/time-square-bomber-is-a-registered-democrat/
so cal chick commented:
Thanks Jim for keeping us updated on this issue and the rest of the breaking news…congrats on the #8 spot on that blog list. There’s many of us who go straight to Gateway Pundit for the latest…
Pamela Troy commented:
“Democrat Faisal Shahzad was arrested last night for attempting to blow up a car on Saturday Night in the heart of New York City.”
Except, of course, he was not a Democrat. There’s no evidence he ever even registered to vote.
Not that the truth matters to you guys.
derf commented:
Educated former elite Islamic terrorist with dark skin = democrat.
Or so they tell me.