A NYPD officer in an bomb suit examines a Nissan Pathfinder parked in New York's Times Square on May 1. Faisal Shahzad has since been arrested in connection with the attempted attack.Photo: REUTERS
(Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have taken into custody at least two men who may have helped provide funding for a botched car-bombing in New York's Times Square, U.S. officials said Saturday.
The men are believed to be associated with the Pakistani Taliban movement and to have helped provide an estimated $15,000 to accused Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American, to plan and execute the attack, one of the officials said.
But two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. investigators have yet to establish that Shahzad had direct ties to any known Pakistani Taliban leaders, who have claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
Establishing direct links between Shahzad and the Pakistani Taliban could increase pressure on Islamabad to broaden its military offensive against militants in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
"This is an investigation that is still ongoing. We don't have perfect knowledge yet about how this was done," one of the U.S. officials said.
Shahzad was arrested as he tried to leave the United States on a Dubai-bound flight two days after a sport utility vehicle containing a crude bomb was found parked in Times Square on May 1st.
He has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and trying to kill and maim people.
(Reporting by Adam Entous; Editing by Eric Walsh)
Note: Can you say "RADICAL ISLAM"? Islamic terrorism - funded and operating in the United States? Taliban supported? .... Define the enemy and you will begin to have victory over RADICAL ISLAMIC terrorists. If the Islamic terrorist NYC bomber had only asked the Taliban for money to pay his mortgage ... hmm! Immigration Dept. really needs to begin dong a better background check on potential US citizens, before allowing ISLAMIC terrorists to become US citizens. We have only had almost ten years to straighten that department out since 9/11 ,, so, is it possible to get it right before another ten years pass us by?
This "would-be" Pakistani bomber had ony been a citizen of the United States for one year - ONE YEAR! Do the math and ask, did he become a citizen knowing full well that he planned to attack the US and then claim all the rights of a US citizen? Let's talk about using our own laws against us ... as Islam is so well know for doing - it's their "MO" !! . .. .. Bee Sting
The men are believed to be associated with the Pakistani Taliban movement and to have helped provide an estimated $15,000 to accused Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American, to plan and execute the attack, one of the officials said.
But two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. investigators have yet to establish that Shahzad had direct ties to any known Pakistani Taliban leaders, who have claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing.
Establishing direct links between Shahzad and the Pakistani Taliban could increase pressure on Islamabad to broaden its military offensive against militants in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
"This is an investigation that is still ongoing. We don't have perfect knowledge yet about how this was done," one of the U.S. officials said.
Shahzad was arrested as he tried to leave the United States on a Dubai-bound flight two days after a sport utility vehicle containing a crude bomb was found parked in Times Square on May 1st.
He has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and trying to kill and maim people.
(Reporting by Adam Entous; Editing by Eric Walsh)
Note: Can you say "RADICAL ISLAM"? Islamic terrorism - funded and operating in the United States? Taliban supported? .... Define the enemy and you will begin to have victory over RADICAL ISLAMIC terrorists. If the Islamic terrorist NYC bomber had only asked the Taliban for money to pay his mortgage ... hmm! Immigration Dept. really needs to begin dong a better background check on potential US citizens, before allowing ISLAMIC terrorists to become US citizens. We have only had almost ten years to straighten that department out since 9/11 ,, so, is it possible to get it right before another ten years pass us by?
This "would-be" Pakistani bomber had ony been a citizen of the United States for one year - ONE YEAR! Do the math and ask, did he become a citizen knowing full well that he planned to attack the US and then claim all the rights of a US citizen? Let's talk about using our own laws against us ... as Islam is so well know for doing - it's their "MO" !! . .. .. Bee Sting
