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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.
Faisal Shahzad's mugshot. Faisal Shahzad was born in Pakistan in 1979 to a wealthy, well-educated family. [58] [59] [60] His father, a former Pakistan Air Force Vice Marshal, is deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan. [61] Shahzad attended primary school in Saudi Arabia, and then studied in Pakistan. [62]
[6] [7] [16] [17] The bomb-maker, Faisal Shahzad, was sentenced to life in prison. [6] In the December 2010 Stockholm bombings, Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, an Islamic extremist suicide bomber who cited Swedish troops in Afghanistan as justification for the attack, set up a pressure cooker bomb, which failed to detonate. [7] [18]
Faisal Shahzad, convicted of the attempted car bombing of Times Square in May 2010, told interrogators that he was "inspired by" al-Awlaki. Shahzad reportedly said he was moved to action, at least in part, by al-Awlaki's English-language writings calling for holy war against Western targets, and he was a "fan and follower" of al-Aulaqi ...
[84] However, media reports indicated Faisal Shahzad, the suspect arrested in connection with the attempted bombing, had trained for months prior to the first broadcast of "200." [ 85 ] Sri Lanka ban
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Faisal Shahzad made a bombing attempt that failed. [111] The Times subsequent reporting indicated that Pakistan's Tehrik-i-Taliban took credit for the failed attempt. [ 111 ] In the same report over the incident, Kabir noted that the Times report used this incident to further legitimize the wars in the Middle East, emphasizing the need to take ...