[QUOTE] Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who tried to detonate a deadly bomb in New York's Times Square, was defiant to his judgment day. As a judge sentenced him to life in prison today, he smiled. "I'm happy with the deal that God is giving me," he said. "God is great."
Judge Miriam Cedarbaum gave Shahzad the maximum sentence allowed, five months after he left a Nissan Pathfinder filled with explosives in the city's busiest tourist destination in the hopes of killing as many Americans as possible. "The defendant has shown a total lack of remorse," Cedarbaum said, according to CNN. She said Shahzad, if given the opportunity, would likely strike again.
The judge told him he'll have a lot of time to think about what the Koran says about killing people. "The Koran gives us the right to defend ourselves," he said in response, according to CNN.
As Shahzad entered the courtroom, he warned Americans that more attacks were to come. "Brace yourself for the war with Islam. This is the first droplet of the flood that will follow," the 30-year-old Shahzad said, according to Bloomberg News. "The past nine years, the war with Muslims has achieved nothing for the U.S. except it has awakened Muslims."
Shahzad was arrested two days after the failed attack, pulled off a flight bound for Dubai just before takeoff, and pleaded guilty to terrorism and weapons counts in June. Shahzad, who lived in the United States for over a decade, has not only admitted to the May 1 plot but has been unrepentant about his actions. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]"I want to plead guilty and I'm going to plead guilty a hundred times forward," he told Cedarbaum at his June 21 arraignment. Shahzad, who called himself a "mujahid," or Muslim soldier, told the judge that "until the hour the U.S. pulls its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan and stops the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan ... we will be attacking the U.S."
In a statement, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said justice was served. "Faisal Shahzad is a remorseless terrorist who betrayed his adopted country and today was rightly sentenced to spend the rest of his life in federal prison. While his life sentence ensures that he will never again threaten the security of New York City and our nation, together we must remain vigilant against those like him who wish to do us harm."
Prosecutors sought a life sentence, and in recent weeks have emphasized Shahzad's lack of remorse and wish to kill more Americans to drive home their point. They have drawn a chilling sketch of the former Connecticut resident and suburbanite as a cold-blooded terrorist who should be behind bars for the rest of his life.
"He put himself before his family and sought to be embraced by a group of militant extremists in order to exact revenge on the same country where he had lived for nearly a decade," prosecutors wrote in court filings ahead of the sentencing, according to the New York Daily News.
"Far from providing an explanation for his criminal activity, Shahzad's history and characteristics strongly militate in favor of the maximum available sentence," Assistant U.S. Attorney Randall Jackson said in a court document filed last week, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Prosecutors noted that Shahzad had said he planned to attack other targets in New York until he was captured or killed, such as Rockefeller Center and Grand Central Station. And they used dramatic video last week of a simulated explosion designed by the FBI to emulate what might have happened had Shahzad's bomb attempt had been successful.
"Had the bombing played out as Shahzad had so carefully planned, the lives of numerous residents and visitors of the city would have been lost and countless others would have been forever traumatized," they wrote. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Shahzad, who was married with two young children, seemed to be living an ordinary life before his failed bomb attempt. He bought a house in the Connecticut suburbs, held down a corporate job and earned a master's degree at the University of Bridgeport.
But in June 2009, Shahzad simply stopped paying the mortgage on the home and moved his family to Pakistan, where federal prosecutors say he received training with the Pakistani Taliban. Earlier this year, he moved back to the United States on his own and he began plotting the Times Square attack.
While in Pakistan, prosecutors say Shahzad recorded a video expressing his desire to attack the United States. "I have been trying to join my brothers in jihad every day since 9/11 happened. I am planning to wage an attack inside America," he said, according to court papers cited by CNN.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/times-square-bomber-faisal-shahzad-sentenced-to-life-prison-term/19661153[/url]
I see no problem with this sentence.
Good, I get the feeling someone like this would just try it again when they got out, no matter what we did to try and reform them.
He could have killed 100's of people and would definitely try again, I'm glad to see him locked away.
Thank god
Good.
I rather have the death penalty
[QUOTE=erie1555;25277771]I rather have the death penalty[/QUOTE]
You'd rather have the death penalty?
I can understand you wanting [I]him[/I] to have the death penalty
but you my friend, are sick
[QUOTE=Captain Lawlrus;25277792]You'd rather have the death penalty?
I can understand you wanting [I]him[/I] to have the death penalty
but you my friend, are sick[/QUOTE]
Better than spending the rest of your life in a cell.
[QUOTE=erie1555;25277816]Better than spending the rest of your life in a cell.[/QUOTE]
Well there you go, that's why he's getting life.
[QUOTE=erie1555;25277771]I rather have the death penalty[/QUOTE]
Only if he killed someone else.
Wow you people bring out a death penalty when it is a Muslim.
Ya go ahead and rate me boxes shows me how much double standards you guys have.
EX:
American kills someone with a sniper = Hero
Muslim kill someone with a gun or knife = monster
[QUOTE=erie1555;25277816]Better than spending the rest of your life in a cell.[/QUOTE]
I don't think you understood what he said. Or what you said, for that matter.
You know, he's completely right. While I believe that spilling innocent blood for innocent blood is not the answer, you can only fuck with people for so long before they do something rash.
I like how you judge one person while living happy in a country which (for most cases IMO) drove the person to commit the act in the first place.
I guess what I'm trying to drive home is, that your passionate aggression and sense of justice should be directed at bigger issues.
[QUOTE=erie1555;25277816]Better than spending the rest of your life in a cell.[/QUOTE]
You missed what the guy you quoted was pointing out
"until the hour the U.S. pulls its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan and stops the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan ... we will be attacking the U.S."
Not really a bad cause, and I agree with it, it's just that setting off explosions and killing many is a bad way to do it. Then again, it really is the only way anybody would listen.
Nothing justifies killing innocents.
In times of war, even holy ones, the quran very strictly says you cannot harm innocents.
even if they're fucking soldiers you cant kill women and children.
[QUOTE=Tea;25277950]Nothing justifies killing innocents.
In times of war, even holy ones, the quran very strictly says you cannot harm innocents.
even if they're fucking soldiers you cant kill women and children.[/QUOTE]
No one listens anyway
[QUOTE=Tea;25277950]Nothing justifies killing innocents.
In times of war, even holy ones, the quran very strictly says you cannot harm innocents.
even if they're fucking soldiers you cant kill women and children.[/QUOTE]
Extremists don't pay attention to that saying.
They only hear what they want to hear.
[QUOTE=Captain Lawlrus;25277792]You'd rather have the death penalty?
I can understand you wanting [I]him[/I] to have the death penalty
but you my friend, are sick[/QUOTE]
Am I the only one who got the joke.
[QUOTE=johan_sm;25278153]No one listens anyway[/QUOTE]
No one listens to any religion
[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy18;25278648]No one listens to any religion[/QUOTE]
It sucks, doesn't it? If Christians and Muslims listened to Jesus's talk of peace then we wouldn't have so much violence. This happens with every popular belief, though. People take it to mean what they want it to mean because it is more a part of their background than something to study and live by. That's why people born into a religion almost always know less about their religion than a convert.
PS: Don't say anything about how if people took the bible literally there would be slavery or something along those lines. Only idiots listen to details like that in the bible. It's the overall messages that really matter.
[QUOTE=erie1555;25277771]I rather have the death penalty[/QUOTE]
So would he, which is why Life in Prison is much better
[QUOTE=Afgman;25277866]Wow you people bring out a death penalty when it is a Muslim.
Ya go ahead and rate me boxes shows me how much double standards you guys have.
EX:
American kills someone with a sniper = Hero
Muslim kill someone with a gun or knife = monster[/QUOTE]
For starters I've seen people say stuff like "bring back the death penalty" in threads about murderers, so right off the bat you just spewed complete bollocks. Second of all your example was fucking stupid, I'm not going to get into the rights and wrongs behind killing (or the perceived rights and wrongs, at least) but a sniper killing an enemy combatant is a lot more honourable than a coward killing innocent civilians, regardless of faith or ethnicity.
Afgman is probably a troll, move on.
The ruling must've struck him like a bo-:downsgun:
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgreV2;25278919]It sucks, doesn't it? If Christians and Muslims listened to Jesus's talk of peace then we wouldn't have so much violence.[/QUOTE]
do you even know what you're talking about
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgreV2;25278919]It sucks, doesn't it? If Christians and Muslims listened to Jesus's talk of peace then we wouldn't have so much violence. This happens with every popular belief, though. People take it to mean what they want it to mean because it is more a part of their background than something to study and live by. That's why people born into a religion almost always know less about their religion than a convert.
PS: Don't say anything about how if people took the bible literally there would be slavery or something along those lines. Only idiots listen to details like that in the bible. It's the overall messages that really matter.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention Leviticus is widely unaccepted by Christian Protestants (Not sure about Catholics or Orthodox.).
[QUOTE=Archy;25281587]do you even know what you're talking about[/QUOTE]
He's fucking right, do YOU know what you're talking about?
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;25281879]He's fucking right, do YOU know what you're talking about?[/QUOTE]
This isn't supposed to be about race or religion, but some sick ass hole that wanted to blow up tons of people for no valid reason, being put away for the rest of his life.
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