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On May 1, 2010, a terrorist attack was attempted in Times Square in Manhattan, New York, United States. Two street vendors alerted NYPD after they spotted smoke coming from a vehicle, and a car bomb was discovered. [1] [2] The bomb had been ignited, but failed to explode, and was disarmed before it caused any casualties.
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.
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]
The alleged Times Square car bomber, apprehended last month on suspicion of leaving a homemade bomb in his SUV, is on track to lose his Shelton, Conn., home to foreclosure. The suspect, Faisal ...
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 ...
On May 18, 2017, a car was crashed in Times Square, New York City, United States. One person was killed and 20 were injured. One person was killed and 20 were injured. Navy veteran Richard Rojas was charged with one count of second degree murder , 18 attempted murders and 38 assaults , for which he was found not responsible because of insanity.
Dzhokhar says he was inspired by online videos from imam Anwar al-Awlaki, [97] who also inspired Faisal Shahzad, who attempted a car bombing in 2010 in Times Square. [ 98 ] Investigators found no evidence that Tsarnaev was involved in any jihadist activities, and, according to The Wall Street Journal , came to believe that unlike his brother ...
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