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Shahzad reportedly watched streaming videos online to determine the day of the week and time that Times Square would be busiest, eventually settling on Saturday night at 6:30 pm. [85] On April 28, three days before the attempted bombing, he drove the Pathfinder from Connecticut to Times Square, apparently in a dry run to figure out where he ...
An early morning explosion at an Upper East Side Starbucks in May 2009 [9] was determined to be unrelated to the Times Square bombing of the recruitment station. [10] The perpetrator of the Starbucks blast, age 17 at the time of the explosion, was arrested, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced in 2010. [11]
Faisal Shahzad (Urdu: فیصل شہزاد; born June 30, 1979) is a Pakistani-American citizen who was arrested for the attempted May 1, 2010, Times Square car bombing. On June 21, 2010, in Federal District Court in Manhattan, he confessed to 10 counts arising from the bombing attempt. Throughout his court appearance, Shahzad was unrepentant.
Times Square bomb attack could refer to: 2008 Times Square bombing, an attack on a US armed forces recruiting station; A failed September 2009 al-Qaeda plot by Najibullah Zazi and alleged co-conspirators; 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt, a failed car bomb attack; 2017 New York City Subway bombing, a failed attack on the Times Square ...
Prosecutions sent Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad to prison for life. Bharara's office successfully prosecuted Al Qaeda terrorist Khalid Al-Fawwaz in 2015 for the bombings of U.S ...
Ullah Akayed—a Bangladeshi electrician living in Brooklyn—attempted a suicide bombing in a passageway between the Times Square–42nd Street and 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal stations, armed with wires, a pipe bomb, and 9-volt battery. The improvised weapon malfunctioned; Ullah was seriously injured himself and four people were ...
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At approximately 7:20 a.m., during morning rush hour, a pipe bomb partially detonated in an underground corridor connecting the New York City Subway's Times Square–42nd Street and 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal stations, between the Seventh and Eighth Avenue subway lines. There were four non-life-threatening injuries. [5]