The arrest of Faisal Shahzad; criminal complaint added; the DOJ’s big white lie
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The Pakistani-born naturalized American who bought the would-be Nissan Pathfinder SUV bomb that fizzled in Times Square was arrested at JFK airport as he attempted to flee for Dubai.
Here’s the DOJ statement:
Earlier this evening, Faisal Shahzad was arrested in connection with the attempted car bombing in New York on Saturday. Mr. Shahzad, an American citizen, was taken into custody at JFK Airport in New York as he attempted to board a flight to Dubai.
Since this plot was first uncovered on Saturday night, the FBI, prosecutors and intelligence lawyers in the National Security Division of the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorneys Offices in Manhattan and Connecticut, along with the NYPD have worked night and day to find out who was responsible for what would have been a deadly attack had it been successful. Over the course of the day today, we have gathered significant additional evidence that led to tonight’s arrest, which was made by agents from Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection.
This investigation is ongoing, as are our attempts to gather useful intelligence, and we continue to pursue a number of leads. But it’s clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans.
FBI agents are working with their state and local counterparts in New York, Connecticut and other jurisdictions to gather evidence and intelligence related to this case. We are also coordinating with other members of the President’s national security team to ensure we use every resource available to the United States to bring anyone responsible to justice.
We continue to gather leads in this investigation, and it’s important that the American people remain vigilant. The vehicle in Times Square was first noticed on Saturday by a citizen who reported it to authorities, and, as always, any American who notices suspicious activity should report it to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.
This investigation is ongoing, it is multi-faceted, and it is aggressive. As we move forward, we will focus on not just holding those responsible for it accountable, but also on obtaining any intelligence about terrorist organizations overseas.
Because of the fast-moving nature of this investigation, I am not able to make any further information public at this time. But the American people should know that we are deploying every resource available, and we will not rest until we have brought everyone responsible to justice.
Mark Steyn rips the Lone Wolf knee-jerkers.
Confirmed: Michael Bloomberg is a moron.
ABC News on the clues that led to Shahzad:
Officials declined to provide the specifics that led them to believe there were overseas links to a larger plot.
Authorities said another clue in the investigation is a video posted online early Sunday morning by persons in Connecticut, who may have been involved in the bomb attempt and are being sought by law enforcement. The video, posted on a site registered one day before the attack, has the Taliban in Pakistan claiming responsibility for the attempted bombing.
Surveillance was key.
The number from a disposable cellphone led FBI agents to the suspect arrested Monday night for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on Saturday evening, according to a senior official.
“They were able to basically get one phone number and by running it through a number of databases, figure out who they thought the guy was,” the official said.
A huge law-enforcement force tracked the suspect through the afternoon and evening. He was arrested at 11:30 p.m. at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. The vehicle identification number had been removed from the bomb-laden 1993 Nissan Pathfinder left in Times Square.
But investigators were able to lift it from a second location on the vehicle, and used that to track down a Connecticut man who said he had sold the Pathfinder for cash about three weeks ago. The man had offered the vehicle on Craigslist, and FBI agents were able to recover the number from a disposable cellphone that had been used by the buyer.
The suspect didn’t still have the phone. But using a lot of technology and access to database, agents located the suspect.
CAIR and the ACLU were unavailable for comment…
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NYPost has a photo of Shahzad.
WSJ reports three were removed from Dubai-bound flight that Shahzad attempted to board.
Newsweek on another link:
A prominent expert on Jihadist media says there is an apparent link between the new video message in which Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, once thought to have been killed, proclaims he is still alive, and a message posted overnight Saturday in which the Pakistani Taliban appears to claim credit for the failed Times Square car bomb attack.
Rita Katz, founder of the Site Intelligence Group, a private organization that monitors and translates extremist Web postings, late on Monday outlined a timeline her organization put together that suggests that the Hakimullah video and the U.S. attack claim were both posted, at least on some sites, by the same person or persons.
Report: Pakistan arrests man in Karachi in connection with Times Square bomb attempt.
Report: Shahzad attended an overseas jihadi training camp.
Report: Up to eight arrested overseas.
This is the reported air traffic control audio of the Dubai-bound flight being turned back to the gate after taxiing…
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Update: Here’s a link to the criminal complaint filed this afternoon.
Fleshing out the DOJ’s big white lie from its press release this morning: “…as he attempted to board a flight to Dubai.” More on the no-fly debacle:
The no-fly list failed to keep the Times Square suspect off the plane. Faisal Shahzad had boarded a jetliner bound for the United Arab Emirates Monday night before federal authorities pulled him back.
The night’s events, gradually coming to light, underscored the flaws in the nation’s aviation security system, which despite its technologies, lists and information sharing, often comes down to someone making a right call.
As federal agents closed in, Faisal Shahzad was aboard Emirates Flight 202. He reserved a ticket on the way to John F. Kennedy International Airport, paid cash on arrival and walked through security without being stopped. By the time Customs and Border Protection officials spotted Shahzad’s name on the passenger list and recognized him as the bombing suspect they were looking for, he was in his seat and the plane was preparing to leave the gate.
But it didn’t. At the last minute, the pilot was notified, the jetliner’s door was opened and Shahzad was taken into custody.
After authorities pulled Shahzad off the plane, he admitted he was behind the crude Times Square car bomb, officials said. He also claimed to have been trained at a terror camp in Pakistan’s lawless tribal region of Waziristan, according to court documents. That raised increased concern that the bombing was an international terror plot.
…The Obama administration played down the fact that Shahzad, a U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, had made it aboard the plane. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wouldn’t talk about it, other than to say Customs officials prevented the plane from taking off. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the security system has fallback procedures in place for times like this, and they worked.
And Attorney General Eric Holder said he “was never in any fear that we were in danger of losing him.”
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Yeah, but some people really like that booty boom boom!
Hey. So they made some arrests in Pakistan. Mayor Bloomberg says there must be some sort of TEA party rally going on there. Ya know, those people not happy with ObamaCare.
Check, won’t make that mistake again.
Gov’ment retards
Sorry if this has been repeated, but was Faisal Shahzad the guy in the video we were seeing over the weekend, and if he was, where did his hair go?
On a separate note… where is this guy’s hyphen? In the MSM, it is almost always identity politics. African-American, Native-American, Anglo-American, Mexican-American, Asian-American. Yet this admitted Terrorist is “…an American Citizen…”,or “…an American of Pakistani descent…”
Pakistani-American.
Farsi-American.
Islamic-American.
Google “Faisal Shahzad” and one of those terms. No hits? Two hits?!? At least combining it with Pakistani-American you get something… but less than 10,000 hits. To give you some context, searching for “Native American Terrorist” gets you over 25,000 hits. And I’ve never even HEARD of a Native American Terrorist.
It’s almost like the MSM doesn’t think such a Islamic-American is possible!
By the way, just googling “Faisal Shahzad” alone will net you over 500,000 hits this morning.
moonsbreath # 108,
From what I understand, the guy with the red shirt was just a man taking off his other shirt because he was hot. Rush just said this.
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He’s not only the President of the Pakistani Hair Club for men, he’s a member!
You have to know that for every time American officials say that the terrorists are stupid and incompetent, the terrorists call American law enforcement stupid 100 times.
This guy is the definition of sleeper cell. He came here with the purpose of targeting Americans. He stayed long enough to get his own citizenship, had two American citizen children who are now Pakistani taliban’s pride and joy.
We can defeat them. We can be safe from them. but we can’t be safe if we aren’t allowed to scrutinize Muslims from Pakistan because we can’t give preference to grandma Amy Smith from Alabama.
Well, this is worthy of discussion.
Does the book included Miranda rights?
As long as the interrogators aren’t compelling him to be a witness against himself, then they don’t have to inform him of his rights.
And if some judge wants to toss all information gained as a result of the interrogation, then the case will hinge on evidence gained separately.
That might not be the best way to proceed, but don’t claim that withholding Miranda is necessarily violating the Constitution.
It looks like it’s about as easy these days to become a U.S. citizen as it is to be an “undocumented immigrant.”
Maybe it’s deliberate failure. This pro-islamic administration really doesn’t want to prevent would-be attacks. A successful major attack here might be the excuse needed to declare martial law, especially if the event can be twisted to delcare war on any and all perceived domestic organizations deemed hostile to the present federal government.
Fearless Leader Speaks:
BARACK OBAMA: This incident is another sobering reminder of the times in which we live. Around the world and here at home, there are those who would attack our citizens and who would slaughter innocent men, women and children in pursuit of their murderous agenda. They will stop at nothing to kill and disrupt our way of life, but once again an attempted attack has been [awkward pause] failed.
A CAIR spokeswoman in burkha uniform said last night on local Bay Area newscast that she was worried for the Pakistani community and any reprisals.
For the love of pete! Who designated this group of unindicted co-conspirators as the go-to mouthpieces for a local community?
And there was the gem where a Pakistani-American (probably a CAIR plant) on the same broadcast saying “It does no good to say the suspect is Pakistani American. I mean, like, what does a Pakistani American even look like? He could have blue eyes and red hair. (Oh really?)”
As it turns out the suspect pic in Michelle’s blog looked a lot like the guy in the newsclip.
What is with these morons? The look of a people from a certain region of the world …. when did biology give way to wishful thinking?
Keep the hammer down and wake up O-Hole! We are at war.
Bear1909 out.
Memo to Katie Couric and Michael Bloomberg:
DO NOT have children together.
Oh don’t worry, Obama will now find this as an excuse to go surfing on his butt in Hawaii for 2 or 3 days…
If this Pakistani lied when taking the oath of citizenship, then his citizenship should become null and void. This would then make him a spy committing espionage/sabotage in the USA during a time of war which means he can be summarily shot. At least we used to be at war against terrorists until the Muslim in Chief took office. Speaking of someone who lied while taking an oath.
The would-be-bomber should either be tried as a traitor or be stripped of his citizenship and tried as a terrorist.
0-Cell calls from a disposable phone
0-Pakistani with a Dubai visa
0-Bombmaking purchases
0-Ticket for Dubai
The NSA probably had this guy high on their list but the Jamie Gorelicks of the Obama administration had their hands tied. This demonstrates how the Left approaches problems. Wait for a disaster then react with pre-911 methodologies. After all, what are the odds the average American will die in a terrorist attack? For them any number of American casualties are acceptable just so long as we don’t profile and disenfranchise the enemies of America.
WarEagle/Flyoverman, actually you are both right.
yes he is a US citizen but obtained citizenship under false pretenses, and yes he needs to be prosecuted by the book. So step one would be to legally (and by the book) strip him of his citizenship. then step two would be to treat his second crime, that of terrorism, as one would treat an enemy combatant. An enemy combatant who violated the rules of warfare by attempting to impersonate a civilian. Such violations are punishable by the death penalty under the USMJ.
There is therefore no difference of opinion here, merely the formalities must be observed.
On May 4th, 2010 at 1:15 pm, love2rumba said
Or play another few rounds of golf. He does all his best foreign policy on the links. For example, the moment of silence on the 7th tee during the funeral for the President of Poland.
Touching. Presidential.
/hurl!
Luckily the errant lad is a citizen/legal resident or Mayor Bloomberg would grant him sanctuary. But as he is a citizen let’s give him a fair trial and then hang him. Hang him really high from the Empire State Building so he can be Dancing With the Stars.
Have Rope
Will Travel
With the way this bho and team has handled the Fort Hood Dr. terrorist, do you think there is any way they will strip this guy of his citizenship? It seems this bho and team treats these rop type a tiny bit different than the rest of Americans. I just wonder if holder has stuck his nose in this yet?
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Well if he did that…….. may I just say two things:
1) Strip him of his citizenship.
2) Follow WarEagle’s plan.
See! We can all agree to hang the b@stard from the nearest lamppost, just as soon as the formalities have been taken care of.
Sorry, those NSA assets were deployed to monitor calls from Franklin Graham to make sure he did not insult Muslims again.
Stillon: I noticed that as well. You could tell that he meant to say thwarted and then “inserted” failed instead. That’s what good pathological liars do. They can switch from/to a lie in the blink of an eye. At first I thought P’BO (play heavenly music), was a smart guy, just lacking in common sense, as in most liberals I know. Then over this past year something comes out every day to make me wonder if he really is just a stupid moron. Now I just think he’s an evil Marxist Erkel in disguise. He is NOT like any black men I know and respect. If we don’t win in November, we are toast. And I’m sorry for you purists but if there is not an available conservative constitutionalist to vote for, then I will vote for the closest thing, aka RINO, Blue dog etc. The only thing we have is just to keep voting them all out over and over until we have purged the system. It can’t happen overnite as we still have people that think Algore should be president…Just sayin…
Once again, the Islamic terrorist plot was disrupted by an alert US citizen. Instead of relying on government, people ought to start relying on themselves and their instincts. This is a nation of laws and our laws are being perverted for the corrupt purposes of political power.
I see Faisal Shahzad was in foreclosure. So while the MSM and Dems may not be able to blame the Tea Party for this attempt the will be able to blame predatory lenders which, naturally, can be traced to Bush/Cheney mismanagement of the economy. I wish this was just sarcasm but after seeing pre-traumatic stress blamed for the Fort Hood massacre I really believe the liberals are capable of any mental contortions to avoid truth.
Obviously he was upset with Arizona’s new Show-me-your-papers law. If he were in Phoenix he could easily be mistaken for a Hispanic and be harassed by the racist state police.
/msnbc mode off
Faisal just stopped paying his mortgage. That’s what I think anyway.
He probably figured his family was going back to Pakistan and he wasn’t planning on staying around much longer so why bother paying it?
The lamestream media are trying to say he was depressed over his finances.
Phhhttt!!!
Yup. And it should be televised.
I thought Obama promised that if only we elected Him the world would love us again.
I thought the same thing.
Also, re: comment Bloomberg made about this guy being someone mad at the health care bill. Bloomberg ticks me off but could he have known the real scoop but was just stalling for time and used that lame comment? (Course, still ticks me off.)
Predictable huh? Pretty soon this will be a call from the left for breaking up big banks.
Behold the left’s idiocy and ignorance that we must battle with.
WE are the militia. (By the way, we are the press too.)
Oh great. That means he’ll be tried in NYC then shipped off to Yemen so he could escape and come back through Mexico to try it again.
Maybe he thinks at some point you earned enough money Bllomberg…
So they’re probably also looking for an angry foreign national who has traveled to Pakistan, perhaps with an Indonesian passport who – crap! – it’s uh -… never mind…
Press: “Mayor Bloomberg, may we have a comment?”
Billionaire Mayor: (thinking to himself) “Should I say ‘No comment’ or should I make a really stupid comment?”
Reading the news about this incident leaves some unanswered questions. Why is a guy, on a no-fly list, sitting on a taxiing plane? Doesn’t putting a U.S. citizen on such a list, require some sort of judicial hearing? I would certainly be raising heck if I was on such a list…unless I was guilty, of course. Homeland security certainly slipped up here. Nothing new.
He’s an example of a “useful idiot”; not smart enough to set off a bomb properly or even get out of NYC right.
Oh, you meant the Pakistani terrorist.
I believe barry hussien WANTS some terrorist act to pass as he thinks he can wallow in the same acclaim that Dubya got when 9/11 happened. Remember that Munchausen by proxy syndrome that was a big deal about 12 years ago? I think barry’s got a BIG case of that.
Do Not – I Repeat – Do Not under any circumstances waterboard him!
Bloomberg is a self interested weenie.
First he’s all set to condemn tea partiers and conservatives with no evidence whatsoever and then when the evidence comes in that an islamist planted to bomb he doesn’t want to offend muslims.
What a maroon!
StillOntheRoad, I’d like to propose a new word. “Oughtoned” as in Bill Ayers’ girlfriend who blew herself up. Usage something like this: “but once again an attempted attack has been Oughtoned.”
I don’t think this says very much about our screening process at airports. They only just nabbed him before the plane took off. Meanwhile the TSA were busy checking granny’s knitting bag. Profiling would have stopped him even getting near the plane. That’s what we get for being PC.
Now Steny Hoyer is saying that Dems are tougher on terrorists than GOP.
Wow. they.have.some.nerve.
(AP) In a freak incident earlier today, Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano was slain by a pack of lone wolves.
The lone wolves posted a video moments after their attack from a country ending in “istan”, suggesting some evidence that the attack was coordinated, and may have been the work of more than one lone wolf.
This possibility was substantiated by witnesses, who tell of a pack of lone wolves being the alleged perpetrators.
Shaken by the loss of his boss, an unidentified Homeland Security spokesman immediately assured reporters that there was no evidence the attack was the result of terrorism. He added that there was no evidence that any of the lone wolves being sought were surnamed Mohamed, adding that the wolves of interest in the attack were domestic sheepdogs.
Sec. Napolitano reportedly succumbed to her wounds at the scene, moments after whispering the single word, “Amateurish…”.
No motive for the attack is known, and a spokesman for Major Bloomberg warned that anyone committing hate-speech against a peaceful lupine member of the community would be immediately executed.
Witnesses describe several of the lone wolves exclaiming, “Allah ak-BARWOOOOO…” during the fatal attack. None of the officials who commented on the attack put any significance on this inexplicable clue.
Police were circulating the picture below, identified only as a wolf of interest.
I don’t understand. The followers of Mohammed don’t need to go overseas to learn Jehad training. They can do it at the many Islamic camps inside America now.
Does anyone know which Mosque he got his arse in the air at for allah the moon god, and what does his Imam look like? I’m betting they all look just as ugly as the face at the top of the page.
As a devout tea-bagging astro-turfing swastika carrying kkk RACIST right winger, I am declaring my full confidence in Janet Noncompetantano:
Fort Hood Muslim was subdued by a lady police.
The Detroit Fruit-of-the-loom bomber was subdued by the fellow passengers.
This Times Square failed-bomber was identified by a street hawker.
Every single of these times, a Muslim terrorist was subdued / captured thanks to private citizen. The system worked!
I am amazed that no one has accused that street hawker of Racism, or at least a Muslim profiling!
If Holder is really doing his job, then he should Mirandize this Pakistani fellow Shahnaz, and arrest the Street Hawker for Hate crimes (racial profiling) against Muslims. Put the bigot where he really belongs; JAIL!
If that can not be accomplished, then simply declare that all Muslim terrorists have joined hands with American Tea-baggers; hence, the Times Square terror attack was a domestic home grown version sponsored by the angry white male tea-baggers.
/sarc off
As Ann Coulter said…
We’ve finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don’t want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
If I see one more uni-brow I’m gonna puke!!
Still obessed with the Tea Partiers, eh, Mr. Obama?
Naturalized citizen, eh?
Time to take a look at the naturalization criteria/process???
Possibly a carry over from the Cyclops era in human evolution.
Our Self Esteemed Betters and LSM types are waiting to hear from CAIR before doing so.That naturalized citizen shouldn’t have been here in the first place. Those mohammedan doctors in Britain who set the bombs were thought of as the nicest guys in the world: hiding is open view as instructed by their moon god.
Yikes! I meant VIGILANT, not vigilante. Pardon my typo.
And while I know Obama eventually acknowledged the role of an aware public in this capture, that did not appear to be his first inclination.
He was just probably po’ed about Obama’s healthcare; ya know probably some Tea Partier, or other right winger. I know this because Republican NYC Mayor Buttberg told me!!!!
*It’s all about the ideology folks; You will always find it to be interwoven with the planning, the training, and the execution, whether it be Jihad Jane, or Faisal Shazam Shazam; And even if the USA, at some future point in time, greatly reduces its’ footprint around the world, this 7th century invented religion of death cult savages will remain our arch enemy!
*Like this islamic terrorist, I am a naturalized citizen; Unlike him, I greatly value the 1st amendment allowing for free speech and expression, including religious expression; There will never be compatability between these two mindsets, and we need a government who understands this before it is too late.
It is only through the God’s Grace and the utter incompetence of the terrorists that we do not have a planeload and a street full of dead Americans.
We need to be mentally prepared for 9/11 type incidents that will kill hundreds.
I guess Obama has a different idea of “worked” than I do. Pathetic and scary.
SGTJack’s notice to the dirtbags who tried to do this:
You’re all evil, incompetent, thin-skinned and impotent, and your prophet was a bloodthirsty, murderous, psychotic, demon-possessed pederast.
LOL SGTjack goin’ all ‘Salman Rushdie’ on them
I hate it when good looking guys with great bodies and obvious intelligence do terrorists acts.
That means that I get profiled by the authorities everytime I go somewhere. What a hassle.
Waterboard him? How about sticking his feet in a bucket of concrete and tossing his worthless butt in the East River instead?