• Suspect Admits Bomb Plot
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[QUOTE]A 30-year-old man pulled from a jetliner just before it was to take off for Dubai admitted that he tried to detonate a car bomb in New York's crowded Times Square after learning how to build bombs in a terrorist training camp in his native Pakistan, authorities say. Faisal Shahzad, a Connecticut resident who became a U.S. citizen a little more than a year ago, was charged with five terrorism-related charges Tuesday. The case quickly expanded overseas as Pakistani authorities arrested some half dozen people known to have been in recent contact with Mr. Shahzad. New York City detectives working with federal agents homed in on Mr. Shahzad during a round-the-clock probe that began Saturday evening when a vendor noticed smoke coming from a Nissan Pathfinder SUV left abandoned and running on 45th Street near Broadway in Manhattan. Federal officials learned his name Sunday night and by Monday morning they added him to the nation's terrorist no-fly list to prevent him from leaving the country. Mr. Shahzad had slipped away from agents watching his house Monday afternoon, according to people briefed on the case, and was arrested shortly before midnight at John F. Kennedy International Airport. New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly estimated 53 hours and 20 minutes elapsed from when the rusted 1993 Pathfinder across Broadway during the height of the Theater District's evening rush Saturday to the time Mr. Shahzad was arrested. "It is clear that this was a terrorist plot aimed at murdering Americans in one of the busiest places in our country," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said. During hours of interviews with FBI agents, authorities said Mr. Shahzad admitted that he bought the SUV for cash in recent weeks from a Connecticut woman and drove it into Times Square. There he parked it and hustled away with the engine still running. He told investigators he constructed a crude but potentially lethal bomb from common items, including propane tanks, firecrackers and two clocks, that he arranged in the rear of the vehicle, authorities said. In Pakistan on Tuesday, police raided a house in the Karachi suburb of Gulshan-e-Iqbal where Mr. Shahzad stayed on visits, a senior government official said. During the raid police also detained a man called Tohid Ahmed, who had been in email contact with Mr. Shahzad while he was in the U.S., the senior government official said. They detained at least four other people, including some members of Mr. Shahzad's family, although their exact relation to him was unclear, the official said. Later Tuesday, police widened their dragnet to Punjab province, raiding houses in the city of Faisalabad, the official added. Mr. Shahzad was born in Pabbi, a town near Nowshera in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. He moved to the U.S. at the age of 18 to pursue his education. Authorities said they are still piecing together what could explain his motive. At the time of his arrest, Mr. Shahzad and his wife were facing foreclosure on their house, a compact gray-vinyl-shingled residence in a working-class neighborhood of Shelton, Conn., that they had vacated months ago. Mr. Shahzad quit his job as a junior financial analyst at an international marketing firm in Norwalk, Conn., in June 2009, only two months after becoming a U.S. citizen. He left for Pakistan in August and returned in early February, according to documents filed Tuesday by U.S. prosecutors. [/QUOTE] [url]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703866704575223671205160344.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories[/url]
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Here's a twist, here's a turn: Man takes the fall, he takes the burn Knows full well he didn't do the crime, Though he don't mind, he'll do the time.
What's with these silly rhymes?
[QUOTE=The_Fly56556;21748794]What's with these silly rhymes?[/QUOTE] Yo fly, don't be dissin the beat Try it yourself, it's pretty neat I bet you could do it all pretty swell All your do is think of a word that rhymes really well/
This rap sucks I'd rather fuck ducks
[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;21749063]This rap sucks I'd rather fuck ducks[/QUOTE] Really now?
[QUOTE=Panda X;21749377]Really now?[/QUOTE] He has Beaver as his avatar, so, he must be serious.
On CNN, they said the guy was [i]Caucasian[/i], not of Middle Eastern Descent :colbert:. They also had a huge debate about recruiters recruiting white people in our own country.
[QUOTE=DeMudkip;21750723]On CNN, they said the guy was [I]Caucasian[/I], not of Middle Eastern Descent :colbert:. They also had a huge debate about recruiters recruiting white people in our own country.[/QUOTE] WSJ has very little biasness and should be regarded up there in the top 3 news sources. CNN can be mixed.
Glen Beck actually said something intelligent about this situation That's a first
[QUOTE=zombiefreak;21750743]WSJ has very little biasness and should be regarded up there in the top 3 news sources.[/QUOTE] Ahahahah, OK. You realize Murdoch owns it, right?
He's a Communist. We should go to war with Russia.
[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;21750837]Glen Beck actually said something intelligent about this situation That's a first[/QUOTE] What? WHAT?! That can't be the old Glenn Beck, they must have replaced him. I like the new Beck anyway.
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;21752177]What? WHAT?! That can't be the old Glenn Beck, they must have replaced him. I like the new Beck anyway.[/QUOTE] it's funny because last week he said that Puerto Rico is controlled by progressives who are going to make it a US State so they can get progressives into congress so they can elect a socialist/communist (I know they are not the same) president.
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