Car bomb almost goes off in NYC
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Al Qaeda and Lashkari-e-Toiba and Hamas have ensured that rest of the world will look at muslims with suspicion.
ISI has made sure that Pakistanis will be looked at with suspicion for covert and overt support of Al Qaeda and LeT.
So what is a Pakistani muslim to do? Twice confounded. Some of them then decide - if you are going to be blamed as a terrorist, might as well become one.
It is sad though.
ISI has made sure that Pakistanis will be looked at with suspicion for covert and overt support of Al Qaeda and LeT.
So what is a Pakistani muslim to do? Twice confounded. Some of them then decide - if you are going to be blamed as a terrorist, might as well become one.
It is sad though.
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I think it is time to monitor and dismantle Islamic organisations, whoever is in high contact with such have to be closely monitred and given a good warning to.
Especially those mosques who are funded by the Saudi money, they are the scum that plaques us. These people are brainwashed with some crooked version of religion and then used as pawns. The problem is it effects all of us.
I have noticed some of you blaming CIA and Mossad, well its time to sort out our own people who are susceptible to being used in such a manner.
From now on, anyone who visits mosques that have links with terrorists should be carefully monitored.
whatever you look at it, a lot of damage has been done to pakistani's, just thank god that it no damage come from this.
its just funny that whoever the us has some interest its people of those nations that somehow are implicated into these incidents without fail.
first when the focus was on arab lands it was always arabs, never a pakistani.
now by some magic pakistani's are suddenly involved in these incidents, its really convenient.
its just funny that whoever the us has some interest its people of those nations that somehow are implicated into these incidents without fail.
first when the focus was on arab lands it was always arabs, never a pakistani.
now by some magic pakistani's are suddenly involved in these incidents, its really convenient.
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US Citizen From Pakistan in Custody Over Times Square Bomb Plot
The fast-moving investigation into Saturdays attempted car bombing in Times Square netted its first suspect overnight Tuesday, when a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was arrested at JFK airport as he tried to leave the country for the Middle East.
The Justice Department said Faisal Shahzad was arrested for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1, 2010.
It said he would appear in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday to be presented on formal charges.
Attorney General Eric Holder in a brief early morning statement read to media said Shahzad was arrested while preparing to fly to Dubai.
Holder said the goal of those responsible for the abortive attack was to kill Americans and that they would be brought to justice. The investigation was making really substantial progress, he said.
This investigation is ongoing, as are our attempts to gather useful intelligence, and we continue to pursue a number of leads.
As we move forward, we will focus on not just holding those responsible for it accountable, but also on obtaining any intelligence about terrorist organizations overseas, he said.
According to published reports, but not confirmed by Holder, Shahzad is believed to be the man who bought the SUV used in the unsuccessful attack at the busy New York City landmark. The vehicle was packed with propane canisters, gasoline tanks, fireworks and a metal locker containing fertilizer which investigators said turned out to be non-explosive.
The Nissan Pathfinder was bought in Connecticut last month, after being advertised on the online trading site, Craigslist. The owner was paid $1,300 in cash.
Police sources told media outlets that the 30-year old Connecticut resident had recently returned from a trip to Pakistan.
The investigation remains very much ongoing, and the dedicated agents, detectives, and prosecutors on this case will continue to follow every lead and use every tool to keep the people of New York City safe, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, FBI Special Agent-in-Charge George Venizelos and New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a joint statement.
We will not rest until every terrorist, whether homegrown or foreign-based, is neutralized and held to account.
Earlier, the Pakistan Taliban in a video clip posted on the Internet said it was responsible for what it called the jaw-breaking blow to America, but the authorities said there was no evidence to back up the claim.
Another video, purportedly also posted by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), featured the groups leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, warning that the time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in their major cities. Fedayeen is an Arabic word for fighters.
Our fedayeen have penetrated the terrorist America, we will give extremely painful blows to the fanatic America, he said, according to a translation released by Flashpoint Partners, a New York-based global security firm.
Mehsud was reported to have been killed in a January U.S. drone strike in Waziristan, in Pakistans tribal belt adjacent to Afghanistan. The message said news of his death was propaganda and that he was alive and healthy.
Various militant groups in Pakistans tribal belt and the adjoining North West Frontier Province came together in late 2007 to form TTP under the leadership of Baitullah Mehsud (a member of the same clan as Hakimullah, but apparently not directly related.)
Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a drone attack in August 2009, and the group has threatened to avenge his death by mounting attacks against the U.S. homeland.
In the recent video, Hakimullah Mehsud referred to the deaths of his martyred predecessor as well as those of many respected brothers from al-Qaeda who were Arab commanders and they only came to us for shelter.
CNSNews.com - US Citizen From Pakistan in Custody Over Times Square Bomb Plot
The fast-moving investigation into Saturdays attempted car bombing in Times Square netted its first suspect overnight Tuesday, when a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was arrested at JFK airport as he tried to leave the country for the Middle East.
The Justice Department said Faisal Shahzad was arrested for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1, 2010.
It said he would appear in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday to be presented on formal charges.
Attorney General Eric Holder in a brief early morning statement read to media said Shahzad was arrested while preparing to fly to Dubai.
Holder said the goal of those responsible for the abortive attack was to kill Americans and that they would be brought to justice. The investigation was making really substantial progress, he said.
This investigation is ongoing, as are our attempts to gather useful intelligence, and we continue to pursue a number of leads.
As we move forward, we will focus on not just holding those responsible for it accountable, but also on obtaining any intelligence about terrorist organizations overseas, he said.
According to published reports, but not confirmed by Holder, Shahzad is believed to be the man who bought the SUV used in the unsuccessful attack at the busy New York City landmark. The vehicle was packed with propane canisters, gasoline tanks, fireworks and a metal locker containing fertilizer which investigators said turned out to be non-explosive.
The Nissan Pathfinder was bought in Connecticut last month, after being advertised on the online trading site, Craigslist. The owner was paid $1,300 in cash.
Police sources told media outlets that the 30-year old Connecticut resident had recently returned from a trip to Pakistan.
The investigation remains very much ongoing, and the dedicated agents, detectives, and prosecutors on this case will continue to follow every lead and use every tool to keep the people of New York City safe, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, FBI Special Agent-in-Charge George Venizelos and New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a joint statement.
We will not rest until every terrorist, whether homegrown or foreign-based, is neutralized and held to account.
Earlier, the Pakistan Taliban in a video clip posted on the Internet said it was responsible for what it called the jaw-breaking blow to America, but the authorities said there was no evidence to back up the claim.
Another video, purportedly also posted by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), featured the groups leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, warning that the time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in their major cities. Fedayeen is an Arabic word for fighters.
Our fedayeen have penetrated the terrorist America, we will give extremely painful blows to the fanatic America, he said, according to a translation released by Flashpoint Partners, a New York-based global security firm.
Mehsud was reported to have been killed in a January U.S. drone strike in Waziristan, in Pakistans tribal belt adjacent to Afghanistan. The message said news of his death was propaganda and that he was alive and healthy.
Various militant groups in Pakistans tribal belt and the adjoining North West Frontier Province came together in late 2007 to form TTP under the leadership of Baitullah Mehsud (a member of the same clan as Hakimullah, but apparently not directly related.)
Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a drone attack in August 2009, and the group has threatened to avenge his death by mounting attacks against the U.S. homeland.
In the recent video, Hakimullah Mehsud referred to the deaths of his martyred predecessor as well as those of many respected brothers from al-Qaeda who were Arab commanders and they only came to us for shelter.
CNSNews.com - US Citizen From Pakistan in Custody Over Times Square Bomb Plot
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We are like what Libya was in the 80's, lets just roll with the punches for now and destroy the roots sown by Zia in the 80's.
If this guy is found guilty, I want him to be stoned taliban style.
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1993 Trade Center bombings. Those who bombed it were Pakistanis, and after that they went back and hid in Pakistan too! Do you think even then the focus was Pakistan? And in this case, it is an American, and so he will be treated as one too!
no, lets not roll with the punches, lets ask some questions and get some answers.
this person is likely to have alot of answers, i want them before anything.
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Analysis: Failed New York bomb puts Pakistan under spotlight
ISLAMABAD, May 4 (Reuters) - Any links between Pakistan's Taliban and a failed bombing in New York's Times Square could put the country under renewed U.S. pressure to open risky new fronts against Islamic militants.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Taliban Movement of Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for the failed bombing and its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, appeared in videos on the Internet on Sunday threatening suicide attacks on major U.S. cities.
A U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, Faisal Shahzad, is accused of driving the failed car bomb into Times Square and will appear in Manhattan court on Tuesday, authorities said.
Questions may arise again over Pakistan's determination to tackle militants as it juggles other problems, from a sluggish economy to power cuts that have made the government unpopular.
"Pakistan may have to prepare to make more sacrifices and wage a much more intense use of force such as search and destroy operations, more systematically," said Rifaat Hussain, head of the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad.
Pakistan, heavily dependent on foreign aid, says it is too stretched to expand security offensives to new areas such as North Waziristan, home to a complex web of militant groups that could deepen the threat to the state if antagonised.
"International goodwill is going to sour unless we are seen to be doing more against the groups in North Waziristan which have not been touched, and the groups of Punjab which have not been touched," said Taliban expert and Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid.
PUNJAB A MILITANT BASE
Some of Pakistan's most dangerous militant groups are based in the country's heartland Punjab province.
They include Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), blamed for the 2008 attack on the Indian commercial capital Mumbai which killed 166 people and accused of plotting attacks in the West.
LeT -- once nurtured by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to fight India in Kashmir -- is estimated to have between 2,000-3,000 gunmen and another 20,000 followers, many trained to fight and who could be mobilised against a crackdown.
A major assault could drive the LeT and other Punjab groups into an alliance with the Pakistani Taliban, an umbrella group backed by al Qaeda that continues to stage suicide bombings despite offensives the army says has killed hundreds of fighters.
Those risks may be put aside by the United States now that the failed Times Square bombing has sounded new alarm bells in a country still haunted by al Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks.
If the United States pushes Pakistan too hard, it could strain relations that have improved in recent months.
"If Hakimullah is responsible for what happened in Times Square and is launching a campaign against American cities, then this is the kind of thing that shakes everybody up and generates political will to really get in the Pakistani government's grill," said Brian Fishman, counterterrorism research fellow with the New American Foundation.
"If Hakimullah is in any way providing direction to attacks on the U.S. homeland, that changes the kind of influence the U.S. is going to want to assert against Pakistan. That raises the stakes of the political game."
DOUBTS ON TTP ABILITY
Many security experts are sceptical the TTP has the ability to stage attacks outside Pakistan, but worry it may be growing closer to al Qaeda and could be adopting the global aims of Osama bin Laden instead of limiting itself to fighting the Pakistani state.
The United States has repeatedly called on Pakistan to do more to fight not just homegrown militancy but also al Qaeda-backed Afghan Taliban based in North Waziristan who cross the border to attack Western forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has said it does not have the resources to go after other Islamic groups such as the Haqqani network, described by U.S. forces as one of their biggest enemies in Afghanistan.
There are strategic reasons for Pakistan's hesitancy to attack the Haqqanis, believed to operate from North Waziristan.
Pakistan sees the group as a strategic asset that will give it influence in any peace settlement in Afghanistan so Islamabad will want those militants on its side.
But it may have few choices if a solid Pakistani connection with the failed Times Square bombing emerges. Other cases already show Pakistani militants have global reach.
David Headley, an American arrested in Chicago last year, has pleaded guilty to working with LeT to plotting attacks in India, including surveillance of targets in Mumbai. Counter-terrorism experts say LeT poses a risk to the West in several ways, including lending its network to groups such as al Qaeda to conduct attacks.
Kyiv Post. Independence. Community. Trust - World - Analysis: Failed New York bomb puts Pakistan under spotlight
ISLAMABAD, May 4 (Reuters) - Any links between Pakistan's Taliban and a failed bombing in New York's Times Square could put the country under renewed U.S. pressure to open risky new fronts against Islamic militants.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Taliban Movement of Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for the failed bombing and its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, appeared in videos on the Internet on Sunday threatening suicide attacks on major U.S. cities.
A U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, Faisal Shahzad, is accused of driving the failed car bomb into Times Square and will appear in Manhattan court on Tuesday, authorities said.
Questions may arise again over Pakistan's determination to tackle militants as it juggles other problems, from a sluggish economy to power cuts that have made the government unpopular.
"Pakistan may have to prepare to make more sacrifices and wage a much more intense use of force such as search and destroy operations, more systematically," said Rifaat Hussain, head of the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad.
Pakistan, heavily dependent on foreign aid, says it is too stretched to expand security offensives to new areas such as North Waziristan, home to a complex web of militant groups that could deepen the threat to the state if antagonised.
"International goodwill is going to sour unless we are seen to be doing more against the groups in North Waziristan which have not been touched, and the groups of Punjab which have not been touched," said Taliban expert and Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid.
PUNJAB A MILITANT BASE
Some of Pakistan's most dangerous militant groups are based in the country's heartland Punjab province.
They include Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), blamed for the 2008 attack on the Indian commercial capital Mumbai which killed 166 people and accused of plotting attacks in the West.
LeT -- once nurtured by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to fight India in Kashmir -- is estimated to have between 2,000-3,000 gunmen and another 20,000 followers, many trained to fight and who could be mobilised against a crackdown.
A major assault could drive the LeT and other Punjab groups into an alliance with the Pakistani Taliban, an umbrella group backed by al Qaeda that continues to stage suicide bombings despite offensives the army says has killed hundreds of fighters.
Those risks may be put aside by the United States now that the failed Times Square bombing has sounded new alarm bells in a country still haunted by al Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks.
If the United States pushes Pakistan too hard, it could strain relations that have improved in recent months.
"If Hakimullah is responsible for what happened in Times Square and is launching a campaign against American cities, then this is the kind of thing that shakes everybody up and generates political will to really get in the Pakistani government's grill," said Brian Fishman, counterterrorism research fellow with the New American Foundation.
"If Hakimullah is in any way providing direction to attacks on the U.S. homeland, that changes the kind of influence the U.S. is going to want to assert against Pakistan. That raises the stakes of the political game."
DOUBTS ON TTP ABILITY
Many security experts are sceptical the TTP has the ability to stage attacks outside Pakistan, but worry it may be growing closer to al Qaeda and could be adopting the global aims of Osama bin Laden instead of limiting itself to fighting the Pakistani state.
The United States has repeatedly called on Pakistan to do more to fight not just homegrown militancy but also al Qaeda-backed Afghan Taliban based in North Waziristan who cross the border to attack Western forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has said it does not have the resources to go after other Islamic groups such as the Haqqani network, described by U.S. forces as one of their biggest enemies in Afghanistan.
There are strategic reasons for Pakistan's hesitancy to attack the Haqqanis, believed to operate from North Waziristan.
Pakistan sees the group as a strategic asset that will give it influence in any peace settlement in Afghanistan so Islamabad will want those militants on its side.
But it may have few choices if a solid Pakistani connection with the failed Times Square bombing emerges. Other cases already show Pakistani militants have global reach.
David Headley, an American arrested in Chicago last year, has pleaded guilty to working with LeT to plotting attacks in India, including surveillance of targets in Mumbai. Counter-terrorism experts say LeT poses a risk to the West in several ways, including lending its network to groups such as al Qaeda to conduct attacks.
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h-ULLA is really a hard ***.
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Ask questions with whom, and what will you find apart from what we already know.
This guy was flying to Dubai and it is clear that many countries and organisations work hand in hand.
Let us be clear once and for all that until and unless the problems faced by Islamic countries are not over, these people will continue to do what they think it right in their own twisted world.
And let me tell you this aswell, these people are superficially religious, they do not and can not fathom peace becuase its not in their blood. These are nothing but crooks and and gangsters masquerading as some freedom fighter groups for Islam.
Here is what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed used to do in the 90's.
What kind of joke is this?
what an odd remark, there are is so much to know, there is so much we dont know, who his contacts are? who his handlers are? where are they based? who gave him support?
you simply dont know this.
etc etc
i do not know alot of things, all i know is one man tried to create an explosion and as a consequence pakistan and pakistani's will have a difficult time trying to explain this - details are important.
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Times Square bomb suspect arrested in New York
BBC News - Man 'arrested' over attempt to bomb NY's Times Square
Eric Holder: "We will not rest until everyone responsible is brought to justice"
A man suspected of attempting to detonate a car bomb in New York City has been arrested.
Faisal Shahzad, a US citizen of Pakistani origin, is accused of driving the car bomb into Times Square on Saturday evening.
He is due to appear in court in Manhattan later.
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Mr Shahzad was arrested at John F Kennedy Airport attempting to board a flight to Dubai.
A senior Pakistani security source in the Pakistani capital Islamabad told the BBC that the authorities had no knowledge of Mr Shahzad.
ANALYSIS
Steve Kingstone
By Steve Kingstone, BBC News, Washington
The attorney general implied that there might be a foreign terrorist link.
He said that as well as trying to detain suspects and question them, his organisation would be trying to gather intelligence about overseas terrorist organisations.
That's a little bit different from what we've heard until now - the authorities had implied that this was a low-level and amateurish affair.
He also dismissed statements released by the Pakistani Taliban saying that they were behind the failed attack and promising more to come.
Reports from the US say Mr Shahzad recently returned from a five-month visit to Pakistan.
The FBI said it had searched his home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Tuesday.
A car containing a bomb made from fertiliser, fireworks, petrol and propane gas tanks was left in Times Square on Saturday.
The Nissan Pathfinder was left parked in Times Square with its engine running and its hazard lights flashing.
The bomb was discovered and dismantled before it could explode.
Mr Holder told a news conference that investigators were pursuing "a number of leads", adding: "We will not rest until we have brought everyone responsible to justice."
FAISAL SHAHZAD
Aged 30
Naturalised US citizen born in Pakistan
Resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut
Reports say he recently returned from five-month visit to Pakistan
New York spooked but defiant
Eyewitnesses to evacuation
Profile: Times Square
He urged the American people to "remain vigilant" and report anything suspicious to the authorities.
Mr Holder said the attempted car bombing "would have been a deadly attack had it been successful".
He added: "It's clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans."
Times Square was packed with tourists and theatregoers when a street vendor raised the alarm.
Police evacuated a wide area of the district and closed subway lines, while a controlled explosion was carried out.
Officials said the bomb was crude, but could have sparked a "significant fireball".
BBC News - Man 'arrested' over attempt to bomb NY's Times Square
Eric Holder: "We will not rest until everyone responsible is brought to justice"
A man suspected of attempting to detonate a car bomb in New York City has been arrested.
Faisal Shahzad, a US citizen of Pakistani origin, is accused of driving the car bomb into Times Square on Saturday evening.
He is due to appear in court in Manhattan later.
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Mr Shahzad was arrested at John F Kennedy Airport attempting to board a flight to Dubai.
A senior Pakistani security source in the Pakistani capital Islamabad told the BBC that the authorities had no knowledge of Mr Shahzad.
ANALYSIS
Steve Kingstone
By Steve Kingstone, BBC News, Washington
The attorney general implied that there might be a foreign terrorist link.
He said that as well as trying to detain suspects and question them, his organisation would be trying to gather intelligence about overseas terrorist organisations.
That's a little bit different from what we've heard until now - the authorities had implied that this was a low-level and amateurish affair.
He also dismissed statements released by the Pakistani Taliban saying that they were behind the failed attack and promising more to come.
Reports from the US say Mr Shahzad recently returned from a five-month visit to Pakistan.
The FBI said it had searched his home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Tuesday.
A car containing a bomb made from fertiliser, fireworks, petrol and propane gas tanks was left in Times Square on Saturday.
The Nissan Pathfinder was left parked in Times Square with its engine running and its hazard lights flashing.
The bomb was discovered and dismantled before it could explode.
Mr Holder told a news conference that investigators were pursuing "a number of leads", adding: "We will not rest until we have brought everyone responsible to justice."
FAISAL SHAHZAD
Aged 30
Naturalised US citizen born in Pakistan
Resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut
Reports say he recently returned from five-month visit to Pakistan
New York spooked but defiant
Eyewitnesses to evacuation
Profile: Times Square
He urged the American people to "remain vigilant" and report anything suspicious to the authorities.
Mr Holder said the attempted car bombing "would have been a deadly attack had it been successful".
He added: "It's clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans."
Times Square was packed with tourists and theatregoers when a street vendor raised the alarm.
Police evacuated a wide area of the district and closed subway lines, while a controlled explosion was carried out.
Officials said the bomb was crude, but could have sparked a "significant fireball".
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