BEWARE of the END OF SUMMER, dear Americans and rest of the world.
“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership. He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”
Well, if a U.S. CITY GOES UP you know where the AmeriKan MSM is going to put the blame.
The only GOOD THING is THIS TIME WE WILL NOT BE FOOLED!!!
So who are they sending at you, America?
"Suspect indicted in bomb attempt; Shahzad’s source of cash detailed" by Larry Neumeister, Associated Press | June 18, 2010
NEW YORK — Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad was charged yesterday with 10 terrorism and weapons counts in an indictment that accuses him of receiving explosives training and financial help from the Pakistani Taliban.
They can't do any better than sending idiots?
And how do these guys keep getting in and out of both countries?
The indictment returned by a grand jury in US District Court in Manhattan added five charges to the original case against Shahzad, 30. It also detailed in greater depth his alleged financing, saying Shahzad had received a total of $12,000 from the militant group through cash drop-offs in Massachusetts and Long Island.
He is accused of plotting to build and detonate a gasoline-and-propane bomb inside a sport-utility vehicle among thousands of tourists. He was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction among several terrorism and weapons counts. “The facts alleged in this indictment show that the Pakistani Taliban facilitated Faisal Shahzad’s attempted attack on American soil,’’ Attorney General Eric Holder said in a release....
The most serious counts against him carry mandatory penalties of life in prison.
The indictment alleged that Shahzad received explosives training in Waziristan, Pakistan, in December 2009 from trainers affiliated with Tehrik-e-Taliban, a Pakistan-based militant extremist group. The affiliation with the group led to financing as well, the indictment alleged.
Related: The Western Jihad in Pakistan
Yeah, AmeriKa's anti-Taliban Taliban.
It said Shahzad received about $5,000 in cash in Massachusetts on Feb. 25 from a co-conspirator in Pakistan whom Shahzad understood worked for Tehrik-e-Taliban. About six weeks later in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., Shahzad received $7,000 in cash, the indictment said.
US Attorney Preet Bharara said Shahzad conspired with the Pakistani Taliban “to wreak death and destruction.’’
I don't see how: Squaring Up For Another False Flag Terror Event
Yeah, SOMEHOW the NONEXPLOSIVE FERTILIZER has been SCRUBBED from the SCENE!! Which is funny because this whole thing smells like bullshit!
Shahzad was born in Pakistan, moved to the United States when he was 18, and lived most recently in Bridgeport, Conn.
He was accused of abandoning a SUV fitted with a homemade car bomb in Times Square on May 1. A street vendor noticed smoke in the vehicle and alerted police. The bomb never ignited and no one was hurt....
After his arrest, Shahzad cooperated with investigators, providing what authorities described as details of the attempted bombing and information that led to other arrests. Authorities say he quickly admitted his role in the incident.
Was that before or after the torture and threats to deport his family members?
The indictment indicated Shahzad bought a semiautomatic 9mm Kel-Tec rifle in Connecticut on March 15. The weapon was found loaded in his car.
Authorities have said they believe Shahzad acted alone in carrying out the bomb plot after receiving financial and other help from the Pakistani Taliban.
Three men in Massachusetts and Maine suspected of supplying money to Shahzad have been detained on immigration charges.
Also see: Sunday Visit With the Neighbors Next Door
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Related: Would-be bomber got cash in Mass.
NEW YORK — The suspect in the failed Times Square bombing pleaded guilty yesterday, an abrupt and expedited end to a terrorism case that extended to Pakistan and an Islamic militant group there.
Faisal Shahzad, 30, listened calmly as each of 10 counts was read to him in US District Court in Manhattan, and he indicated that he understood the charges and the penalties he faced.
Shahzad seemed relaxed as he recounted how and why he conceived the plot, traveling to Pakistan in December to join the Taliban and receive training in constructing a bomb. And despite his admission of guilt and his extended cooperation with the authorities since his arrest, Shahzad was unapologetic, characterizing himself as “part of the answer to the US terrorizing the Muslim people.’’
“I want to plead guilty, and I’m going to plead guilty 100 times over,’’ he said, “because until the hour the US pulls its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and stops the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan, and stops the occupation of Muslim lands, and stops killing the Muslims, and stops reporting the Muslims to its government, we will be attacking US, and I plead guilty to that.’’
Now I am smelling a stinking agent because the implication is if you are for those goals you are a terrorist.
Not the idiot terrorism crap; I'm talking U.S. foreign policy.
The plea and Shahzad’s comments came four days after a federal grand jury returned an indictment that offered new details on the government’s accusations that Tehrik-e-Taliban, the umbrella organization for the Pakistani Taliban, had assisted Shahzad in his plot.
And since the TTP has been trained by AmeriKa....
In court, Shahzad admitted receiving the training, saying he had gone to Pakistan to find the Taliban and learned how to build the bomb that he planned to detonate as part of his plan....
Well, they SURE DID a S***TY job!!!
Shahzad stood for nearly an hour answering US District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum’s questions about his motivations, his background, even his family.
Ever notice most of AmeriKa's judges are Jewish?
“I had a wife and two beautiful kids,’’ he said, adding that they had returned to Pakistan to be with family....
And he gave it all up for... what?
The guilty plea was consistent with Shahzad’s behavior since his arrest May 3, when he began cooperating with federal authorities for more than two weeks without counsel and waived his Miranda rights. The only question would be whether Shahzad would seek some sort of leniency in sentencing in return for his assistance.
Cedarbaum scheduled Shahzad’s sentencing for Oct. 5. His lawyer, Philip L. Weinstein, had no comment after the hearing.
The defense attorney?
Shahzad’s entered his plea on a day when he was supposed to be arraigned on the recent indictment. But when the hearing began at midday, the judge announced the parties had asked for a delay until late afternoon.
Weinstein and a prosecutor left the packed courtroom for a meeting with Cedarbaum. About 15 minutes later, the judge returned and announced that the hearing would resume at 4 p.m.
Shahzad reentered the courtroom just after 4:30. He sat at the defense table, drumming his fingers as Weinstein conferred with the judge and a prosecutor....
Shahzad said he became an American citizen in April or May 2009 and then left for Pakistan in June. He spent six months with his family in Peshawar, he said, and then left in December with a couple of friends to join the Taliban in Waziristan, in the northwestern part of the country.
He returned to the United States in February, he said, carrying about $8,000 in cash, half of which the Taliban had given him. Later he needed more money, he said. “They sent it to me twice, once in March and once in April,’’ he said.
Three Pakistan men living in New England were arrested on immigration charges in May as part of the investigation into the bombing attempt. They were identified as Pir D. Khan and his cousin Aftab Ali Khan, both of Watertown, and Mohammad Shafiq Rahman of South Portland, Maine.
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Have you noticed the terrorists are always Pakistani now?
"US opposes Pakistani’s release; But man arrested in attempted bombing inquiry not seen as threat" by Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | June 24, 2010
A Pakistani man who was arrested in Maine on immigration charges during the investigation into the attempted bombing in Times Square is not believed to be a threat to the United States, a government lawyer told an immigration judge yesterday.
Mohammad Shafiq Rahman, a 33-year-old computer programmer from South Portland, Maine, appeared in US Immigration Court in Boston via video link as his lawyer argued that he should be released on bail while he petitions to remain in the country with his American wife.
“Does the government feel that he is a danger to the community?’’ asked Judge Francis L. Cramer, as Rahman, dressed in an orange prison uniform, appeared on the video monitor from the Portland jail where he has been held since his May 13 arrest.
“We are not making that argument,’’ said Richard D. Neville, deputy chief counsel for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Still, Neville said the government opposes Rahman’s release because he might flee. The judge took the matter under advisement and said he will rule by June 30.
After the hearing, Cynthia Arn, a Portland immigration attorney who represents Rahman, said investigators have concluded that he had no connection to the May 1 attempted bombing by Faisal Shahzad, but have not told Rahman how his name surfaced in the inquiry.
“There’s no investigation going on, and there hasn’t been for some time into him and Faisal Shahzad,’’ Arn said. “It just doesn’t exist. There’s no connection.’’
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She said that Rahman met Shahzad, a former financial analyst from Bridgeport, Conn., about 10 years ago when both were members of the Pakistani community in Connecticut. She said Rahman had not seen Shahzad in about eight years and was surprised to hear of his involvement in a terrorist attack.
During the hearing, Arn argued that Rahman should be released because he is married to an American, has no criminal record, and has a job.
There was no mention during the hearing of the attempted bombing and no explanation of what led investigators to Rahman and two Massachusetts men who were also arrested May 13 during raids conducted as part of the New York investigation. None of the three face criminal charges. All are being held in alleged immigration violations....
Land of the free, huh?
I guess if he were Russian or Israeli they would have sent him home by now.
After the arrests, government officials said the three men may have handled informal money transfers for Shahzad, but that it was unclear whether they knew how the funds would be used. Last month, Neville disclosed in court that Aftab Khan allegedly had Shahzad’s cellphone number stored on his cellphone.
Shahzad pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in New York to the attempted bombing and acknowledged that he came to Massachusetts on Feb. 25 to pick up $5,000 in cash sent by a member of the Pakistani Taliban. But how that transaction occurred and who was involved remains unclear....
WTF is this? Maybe I should be browning all this BS, if you know what I mean.
Rahman was questioned by US Secret Service agents about a year and a half ago, after a bank teller alerted authorities when Rahman deposited a number of checks from his job at a local bank, according to Arn. She said agents seemed satisfied that nothing was wrong after talking to Rahman, and that was the end of the inquiry.
Rahman came to the United States in 1999 with a specialty occupation visa that allowed him to work as a computer programmer, then stayed after it expired in 2004.
SS must have missed it.
He married a US citizen in 2005, divorced the following year, then in March married another US citizen, Sara Boutet, a 44-year-old artist from Saco, Maine, and a mother of five.
Neville told the judge that Boutet signed a petition supporting Rahman’s bid for permanent residency, withdrew it recently, but now supports it.
I sense fascist federal pressure in the room.
But Arn said that federal agents pressured Boutet to withdraw her support by telling her something of a personal nature that turned out to be unfounded and added that she is now “in this for the long haul.’’
You know, for better or worse?
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There are always visiting hours.
CAIRO — The man who pleaded guilty to carrying out the attempted Times Square car bombing appeared in a video recorded before the failed attack that shows him meeting with senior Pakistani Taliban leaders and vowing to strike the United States.
In the video, aired in segments yesterday by the Dubai-based television station Al-Arabiya, Faisal Shahzad says the attack on the New York City landmark would avenge the deaths of Muslims killed in Iraq and Afghanistan....
One of the figures he praises as a martyr is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq who was killed in a US airstrike in 2006.
Related: Al-Zarqawi Video Is A Pentagon Propaganda Psy-Op
Same as this one!
Shahzad, 30, is seen in the video sitting on the ground in a black turban and olive-colored vest, with an AK-47 next to him. He calls jihad, or holy war, a pillar of the Muslim faith, and says “Islam will spread on the whole world, and democracy will be defeated.’’
Well, when you find a functioning democracy let me know.
“Eight years has passed by Afghanistan, and you will see that the Muslim war has just started,’’ he said.
Al-Arabiya said the full tape shows Shahzad meeting with Pakistani Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud.
IntelCenter, a US-based group that monitors extremist groups, said Mehsud and Shahzad shake hands in the video. IntelCenter also says the video bears the mark of the Pakistani Taliban’s media arm, Umar Media.
Oh, the IntelCenter said, huh?
Analysts said the Pakistani Taliban appears to be trying to use the video as a means of boosting the reputation of Mehsud and reminding the Pakistani Taliban’s supporters that they can attack Americans on their own soil.
You see what is coming, right?
Evan Kohlmann, an analyst at globalterroralert.com, a private, US-based terrorism analysis group, said that such a video “can significantly prolong the visceral impact of even an unsuccessful operation.’’
Yup, they even get neat names like Christmas Day and Times Square bomber so you won't forget them.
And CUI BONO, 'eh, Ev?
Aren't you out a job without the "terrorists" around?
Related: Evan Kohlmann 'the Doogie Howser of terrorism'?
Gitmo Al Qaeda Movie Creator Previously Pushed Terror Propaganda
Yeah, okay, Ev, whatever you say.
Shahzad said he sought and received five days’ training in explosives before returning to the United States in February to carry out the bomb plot with funding from members of the militant group.
The Taliban sent an idiot?
Makes you wonder how we are losing the war, 'eh, Americans?
The indictment said he received $5,000 in cash on Feb. 25 from an unnamed coconspirator in Pakistan and $7,000 more on April 10, sent at the coconspirator’s direction.
His image in the video is widely different from the previously circulated snapshots of Shahzad and is typical of martyrdom videos that have been released by other attackers.Oh, no, NOT ANOTHER ACTOR playing the part of a "terrorist!!"
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Here is a group that will not be making it back:
"Pakistan court convicts five Virginia men in terror case; Defense says key evidence was ignored; Both sides plan to appeal verdict" by Shaiq Hussain and Brigid Schulte, Washington Post | June 25, 2010
SARGODHA, Pakistan — Five Virginia men were convicted on terror charges yesterday and sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Pakistani court, in a case that focused US concern about its citizens linking up with foreign extremist groups.
A defense lawyer for the men questioned the legitimacy of the verdict and accused prosecutors and the judge in the closed-door trial of ignoring key evidence. He promised an immediate appeal.
In Alexandria, Va., the families of the five men were said to be reeling from news of the convictions.
“They had hoped for justice and are devastated by the results,’’ said Alexandria attorney Nina Ginsberg, who is working with the men and their families in the face of potential prosecution by the US government and has closely followed the Pakistan court proceedings. “This was a rigged trial that appears to have been based on fabricated evidence in a secret court with a preordained result.’’
They held it at Gitmo?
The men — Umar Chaudhry, Ramy Zamzam, Ahmad A. Minni, Waqar Khan, and Aman Hassan Yemer — were convicted of criminal conspiracy and funding a banned terror organization....
Didn't one want to be a dentist?
Prosecutors said e-mail records and witness statements proved the men were plotting terror attacks in Pakistan and had conspired to train for and execute attacks against US troops stationed in Afghanistan.
But defense lawyers in Pakistan said some of the e-mails submitted as evidence of communication with terror groups did not have date stamps and could have been fabricated by overzealous local police officials once the five were already in custody.
More likely than not, Cops are the same everywhere.
Lawyer Hassan Katchela also questioned the submission of two receipts for relatively small amounts of money (about $6 and $12) as evidence that the men had given money to terror groups....
The men grew up in the Alexandria area and worshiped at the same small mosque. They said during trial that they traveled secretly to Pakistan in hopes of helping the orphaned and homeless in neighboring Afghanistan. When they were arrested in December, after their families reported them missing, they ranged in age from 18 to 24.
Katchela said the men were shocked and “very disappointed’’ when the verdicts were announced in court. In addition to the prison sentences, they were each fined about $840.
“They remained silent and left the courtroom silently,’’ Katchela said, adding that he expected to meet with the men today and discuss an appeal to a higher court in Lahore, which he plans to submit within seven days.
“We feel they’ll have a better chance at a fair trial in Lahore, where a local court doesn’t have to rule that its own local investigators fabricated evidence,’’ said Ginsberg.
Deputy prosecutor Rana Bakhtiar told reporters outside the Sargodha jail that the government also would appeal and probably would seek 20-year prison terms for the men.
In the United States, the FBI is conducting its own investigation into the men’s activities. Investigators have been waiting to see how events play out in Pakistan, partly because evidence from the trial there could give them more leads to follow, US law enforcement officials said....
The trial in Pakistan moved with unusual speed in a country where cases often drag out for years and where terror convictions are rare and often overturned on appeal. The trial was closed to journalists and observers.
Lawyers alleged that the men were tortured by their Pakistani jailers in order to coerce confessions — allegations that Pakistani officials denied....
I wouldn't be surprised knowing how governments operate these days.
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Yup, the Taliban's finest on their way to blow you up, America!!
Related: Pakistan: The Ticking Time Bomb
Taliban Terrorists Escaped From Texas Military Base in January
Oh, they are already in-country and wandering around only government knows where.
Also see: You Have to Get Up Pretty Early in the Morning to Fool a Pakistani
