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2010-05-04 Home Front: WoT
Pakistani-American Arrested in Times Square Plot
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Posted by tu3031 2010-05-04 00:35|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 Multiple outlets have confirmed an arrest in connection with Saturday's attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square.

According to NBC, the man's name is Shahzad Faisal, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent. The Connecticut native was reportedly arrested in Long Island.

CNN and the New York Times are also reporting that an arrest was made, either late Monday evening or early Tuesday Morning. CNN says he was arrested at JFK International Airport, while the New York Times reports that he was arrested at "New York-area airport," apparently attempting to flee.

This is a developing story. More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

Source is Huffpo article.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-04 00:53||   2010-05-04 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 It is all over the various news websites - Pakistani American arrested while trying to flee the country to Dubai.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-05-04 02:16||   2010-05-04 02:16|| Front Page Top

#3 They've even got parking lot video of him driving the Pathfinder. He's toast. Several of his friends are under scrutiny now, too.
Posted by gorb 2010-05-04 02:27||   2010-05-04 02:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Now the experts can swing into action: expect thousands and thousands of words on "Why did he do that?".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-04 03:32||   2010-05-04 03:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Apparently he recently travelled to Pakistan.

He must have lost the bomb making instructions on the way back.
Posted by phil_b 2010-05-04 03:36||   2010-05-04 03:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Color me shocked. I thought it had to be a Tea Party member.
/sarcasm
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2010-05-04 04:12||   2010-05-04 04:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Apparently he recently travelled to Pakistan.

Apparently he spent five months there, according to various articles I saw -- granted, all coming from the same announcement, since the wording never changed, just as every report of the man taking off his shirt in the alley had him placing it furtively in his briefcase.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-05-04 05:41||   2010-05-04 05:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Dust off the waterboard.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-05-04 06:33||   2010-05-04 06:33|| Front Page Top

#9 s like a white male about 40. Did he have a red shirt on? Rights been read yet? Couldn't be any co-conspirators. TEA Partiers are too dumb to act in groups.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-04 06:59||   2010-05-04 06:59|| Front Page Top

#10 A radical Methodist was he?
Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-04 07:00||   2010-05-04 07:00|| Front Page Top

#11 STOP it STOP about the bad gas mileage and tires. I am a Gulf Air frequent flier....New York to London, Dubai, Lahore, etc. I actually hate cars but I will gladly you $1000. in USAID large bills for that SUV, but you must promise not to tell anybody because I am a Mexican illegal alien. YOU must promise! Call me on my cell or send me an e-mail at shahzad.faisal@dumbshi*.com

Enshallah, Shahzad

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-04 07:18||   2010-05-04 07:18|| Front Page Top

#12 In other news:
Confidential sources reveal a sense of disappointment on multiple levels within the Administration's closest inner circle. "They thought they really had it going their way, (when) the video showed the white guy. They really wanted to 'put it on the right-wing nutjobs, like the militia ones arrested in Detroit".
Other unconfirmed reports state that the President was wandering the halls of the WH in the middle of the night muttering, "Please don't let him be a Muslim...please don't let him be a muslim...".
"Don't worry, Mr. President...the media's on our side", consoled his Chief of Staff.
Posted by logi_cal 2010-05-04 07:51||   2010-05-04 07:51|| Front Page Top

#13 I bet Mayor Bloomberg looks good this morning. Guess it wasn't a disgruntled tea-bagger enraged about health care ...
Posted by Steve White 2010-05-04 07:56||   2010-05-04 07:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Sidewalk vendor Duane Jackson yes....but are there no other special minority voting groups Barry could call (televised of course) and personally thank for assisting with the arrest of Faisal?

"Never let a good crisis go to waste."
Rhambo
Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-04 08:02||   2010-05-04 08:02|| Front Page Top

#15 All roads lead to Pakistan!
Posted by Paul2 2010-05-04 08:21||   2010-05-04 08:21|| Front Page Top

#16 The Washington Post calls him Faisal Shahzad.

Shahzad has family links to the southern port city of Karachi, according to Dawn television, an English-language station in Pakistan. Shahzad flew to Karachi in July 2009 on Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline of the United Arab Emirates, and returned to the U.S. via the same airline on August 5, the station said, citing unnamed sources. Shahzad recently returned from a five-month trip to Pakistan, a government official said.

ABC News claims Mr. Shahzad spent five months in Peshawar before returning to the U.S. to purchase the Pathfinder.

Politico reports the FBI used the number of a disposable cell phone used to contact the car seller to find our miscreant. So much for the privacy of the throw-away phone. TV dramas will never be the same.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-05-04 08:37||   2010-05-04 08:37|| Front Page Top

#17 I wonder what the multiple keys in the ignition were to? Storage units, safe houses, mail boxes?
Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-05-04 09:17||   2010-05-04 09:17|| Front Page Top

#18 News reports are saying he acted alone. I say BS. How many of these guys really act alone? He travelled to Paki-wakistan and stayed for several months. They had Hassan pegged as a lone sudden jihad case but when it was all said and done, he had links to the imam in Yemen.

Another question, he was 30 years old. I thought the immigration process was a long drawn out process that took years. Something doesn't fit here.
Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-04 09:30||   2010-05-04 09:30|| Front Page Top

#19 I thought the immigration process was a long drawn out process that took years.

Probably got in on a student visa then got a job (industry or even w/ Paki relatives). Green card and citizenship. It's doable.
Posted by ed 2010-05-04 09:40||   2010-05-04 09:40|| Front Page Top

#20 Disclosure of NSA involvement in developing evidence.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-04 09:59||   2010-05-04 09:59|| Front Page Top

#21 Note to NarcoTerroist Cartel - disposable phones do not hide the identity of the user. Thank you MSM.
Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-04 10:09||   2010-05-04 10:09|| Front Page Top

#22 At 11:30 p.m., Holder was called about the arrest. He was rushed back to DOJ, complete with flashing lights. He didn't go to his office but straight to the National Security Division's 7th-floor SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) for real-time updates.

This is one of the worst cases of governmenteze double-speak I've ever seen. Can someone tell me what the hell "sensitive compartmented information facility for real-time updates" means. This sounds like something Napolitano would say.
Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-04 10:15||   2010-05-04 10:15|| Front Page Top

#23 It's the Cone of Silence, my good man.
Posted by ed 2010-05-04 10:21||   2010-05-04 10:21|| Front Page Top

#24 Sounds like a "Made up on the spot name" for the MSM/Propaganda Arm to broadcast.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-05-04 10:23||   2010-05-04 10:23|| Front Page Top

#25 I wonder what the multiple keys in the ignition were to?
Probably just added shrapnel, Lumpy.
Posted by GK 2010-05-04 10:27||   2010-05-04 10:27|| Front Page Top

#26 It sounds like an enclosed operations room that has lots of encrypted comms facilities. Low bidder was probably Huawei.
Posted by ed 2010-05-04 10:29||   2010-05-04 10:29|| Front Page Top

#27 what the hell "sensitive compartmented information facility for real-time updates" means

usually a 'secure' room in that its been constructed so that electronic emissions can not travel out or be tapped into through simple local monitoring, the red [secure and heavily encrypted] wires in and out are kept away or shielded from black wires [unencrypted] that go in and out, processes that occur within the facility stay within the facility, and all personnel entrance/exit is recorded and monitored with all uncleared personnel escorted and monitored during visits, with a scrub of the facility before entrance by uncleared personnel of any information or process that should not be seen or heard.
Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-04 10:43||   2010-05-04 10:43|| Front Page Top

#28 Yeah. Didn't Jack Bauer use one last week?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-04 10:49||   2010-05-04 10:49|| Front Page Top

#29 Apparently Shahzads plane was busing on the runway when it was recalled. Nobody flagged his Passport and he paid a one-way ticket to Dubai then Pakistan. Caught Because they found his car in JFK short-term parking.

Am I the only one wondering how they forgot to flag his passport, when at the time he was subject of a Manhunt?
Posted by Charles 2010-05-04 11:47||   2010-05-04 11:47|| Front Page Top

#30 Shahzad has family links to the southern port city of Karachi, according to Dawn television, an English-language station in Pakistan.

So he was just there to visit his mother, right?
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-04 11:50||   2010-05-04 11:50|| Front Page Top

#31 I have this mental image of AJ Holder lying in state in his elaborate coffin at the Dept. of Justice, like Cthulhu, awaiting, dreaming, until he is stirred by a call like the one last night.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-04 12:07||   2010-05-04 12:07|| Front Page Top

#32 

How pious can he be? He hasn't banged his head enough to remove the uni-brow
Posted by Beavis 2010-05-04 13:08||   2010-05-04 13:08|| Front Page Top

#33 I have this mental image of AJ Holder lying in state in his elaborate coffin at the Dept. of Justice, like Cthulhu, awaiting, dreaming, until he is stirred by a call like the one last night.

Too religious. I envision him lying in state in an elaborate stone coffin like Vladamir Lenin.
Posted by Secret Master 2010-05-04 13:17||   2010-05-04 13:17|| Front Page Top

#34 Mr. Shahzad is among a handful of Pakistani-Americans who have recently faced terrorism accusations in the United States or abroad.
NYT

What about prevention?
Posted by Willy 2010-05-04 13:41||   2010-05-04 13:41|| Front Page Top

#35 What about prevention?

Why... that would be profiling..... can't have that!

The administration would rather we all go down in flames than to profile anyone.

They might get their wish...
Posted by CrazyFool 2010-05-04 15:04||   2010-05-04 15:04|| Front Page Top

#36 Sorry this is long but here's what Contessa Brewer of MSNBC siad: "BREWER: I mean the thing is is that and I get frustrated and there was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country because there are a lot of people who want to use this terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way. I mean they use it as justification for really outdated bigotry.
And so there was part of me was really hoping this would not be the case that here would be somebody who is not the defined. I mean he’s accused he’s arrested you know I don’t want to convict him before it’s time to do so. He’s the guy authorities say is involved. But that being said I mean we know even in recent history you have the Hutaree militia from Michigan who have plans to let’s face it create terror.
That’s what they were planning to do and they were doing so from far different backgrounds then what this guy is coming from. So, the threat is not just coming from people who decide that America is the place to be and you know come here and want to become citizens. Obviously this guy did."
Basicly she said she was hoping she could show how bigotted and rascist the Tea Party or other conservative groups are. Never mind her own bigotry.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-05-04 15:37||   2010-05-04 15:37|| Front Page Top

#37 His father was a top Pakistani Air Force Officer - Air Vice Marshal
Posted by john frum 2010-05-04 16:11||   2010-05-04 16:11|| Front Page Top

#38 Shahzad is the son of retired Air Vice Marshall Baharul Haq, a former top Pakistani air force officer and deputy director general of the civil aviation authority
Posted by john frum 2010-05-04 16:21||   2010-05-04 16:21|| Front Page Top

#39 logi_cal, the militia in Detroit were released. U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said they posed no risk to the public. "The right to engage in hate-filled,venomous speach is a right that deserves First Amendmant protection."
Posted by Flapper Scourge of the Algonquins4926  2010-05-04 16:33||   2010-05-04 16:33|| Front Page Top

#40 the militia in Detroit were released. U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said they posed no risk to the public.

The release has been delayed until tomorrow evening.
Posted by badanov 2010-05-04 16:51|| http://www.freefirezone.org  2010-05-04 16:51|| Front Page Top

#41 Is an Air Vice Marshall the guy in charge of the Mile High Club and the stewardesses drink cart?
Posted by Glenmore 2010-05-04 17:18||   2010-05-04 17:18|| Front Page Top

#42 Just a question would taking him off an airliner of another country change his rights? Would this count as foreign territory? Might be some legal reason to let him board the aircraft.
Posted by Throper Forkbeard7372 2010-05-04 17:22||   2010-05-04 17:22|| Front Page Top

#43 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Vice-Marshal

Air Vice-Marshal (AVM) is an air officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force.

Air Vice-Marshal is a 2 star rank and has a NATO ranking code of OF-7. It is equivalent to a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy or a Major-General in the British Army or the Royal Marines.
Posted by john frum 2010-05-04 17:39||   2010-05-04 17:39|| Front Page Top

#44 Shahzad is the son of retired Air Vice Marshall Baharul Haq, a former top Pakistani air force officer and deputy director general of the civil aviation authority

Interesting. And David Headley/Daoud Gilani and his partner in crime were Pakistani military academy grads and the sons of Pakistani army generals, as I recall. Are they sending their sons to wage covert war? Somebody needs to interview former President General Musharref on the subject.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-05-04 18:31||   2010-05-04 18:31|| Front Page Top

#45 This makes me sad in one respect: I know Pakistani immigrants who are decent people and good Americans. They don't even think about this kind of shit, but they're getting hit with this idiot's tar brush. They follow the Muslim religion, including fasting for Ramadam, but don't expect anybody else to abstain from bacon, alcohol, etc., when they're around (they just do it themselves in a non-ostentatious way). The women dress like Americans, but modestly (like most decent women here did before the let-it-all-hang-out 1960's). They're good people, which just makes me want to kick this clown in the you-know-where for having the gall to be born in the same country as they were. >:-(
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-04 19:28||   2010-05-04 19:28|| Front Page Top

#46 "I bet Mayor Bloomberg looks good this morning. Guess it wasn't a disgruntled tea-bagger enraged about health care ..."

Steve, I've got $100 cash for the first reporter with enough guts (or self-respect) to ask Hizzoner on camera what Mr. Faisal said his beef with the "healthcare" bill is that would lead him to do such a thing in protest.

Ya' know what? Make that $200.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-04 19:32||   2010-05-04 19:32|| Front Page Top

#47 Not gonna happen, except perhaps on SNL.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-04 19:43||   2010-05-04 19:43|| Front Page Top

#48  Are they sending their sons to wage covert war?

It may or may not be their intent, but keep in mind that the training for Pakistani military officers incorporates Pakistani Brigadier S.K. Malik's book The Quranic Concept of War.

This makes me sad ...

Me, too. Barbara, I have neighbors who fit your description well.
Posted by lotp 2010-05-04 20:10||   2010-05-04 20:10|| Front Page Top

#49 Excellent point, lotp.
The Quranic Concept of War (pdf) is a must read.

“The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.”
Posted by ed 2010-05-04 20:18||   2010-05-04 20:18|| Front Page Top

#50 This makes me sad ...

And I've met (and worked with a few) Pakistani immigrants who would knife you in a second if they could get away with it. These weren't the poor taxi drivers of stereotype but $100K+ earners from the top Paki families. Sometimes the mask slips and they look upon the kufr as some barnyard animal. That includes the attitude of the brood mare they bought/brought over.
Posted by ed 2010-05-04 20:29||   2010-05-04 20:29|| Front Page Top

#51 This makes me sad ...

Ditto. NPR had an interview/call-in today about this situation and about the Islamic terrorism in general. Two self-defined Pakistani Muslims who had acquired American citizenship called in to castigate those of their fellows who by action or inaction were involved in such things. They called it out as evil. I was very pleased to hear it.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-05-04 20:45||   2010-05-04 20:45|| Front Page Top

#52 Guess it wasn't a disgruntled tea-bagger enraged about health care ...

Wonder if that was one of the questions asked?
Posted by Pappy 2010-05-04 20:52||   2010-05-04 20:52|| Front Page Top

#53 SHAHZAD repor attended SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY in the US.

D *** NG IT, DOES THIS MEAN HE WASN'T AT PENN STATE WID THE CIA'S VALERIE PLAME, MATRYLAND SNIPER, ........@etc.

Well, I'm certainly confused...

[sarc].
Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-04 22:04||   2010-05-04 22:04|| Front Page Top

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