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DEFIANT CONFESSION OF NEWYORK TIMES SQUARE PLOTTER RATTLES APOLOGETICS AND NATION ALIKE
The defendant, Faisal Shahzad, 30, listened as each of 10 counts was read to him in Federal District Court in Manhattan, and indicated he understood the charges and penalties he faced.
Reporters of the New York Times narrate even as how the stark and chilly message that was delivered with alacrity and benumbing bluntness-
To the pointed queries of the appalling consequences of his intended action if it had not been interrupted, by the Judge Times reports in its afternoon alert to its readers –
And it was seemingly with equanimity that Mr. Shahzad spoke of his plan to detonate a car bomb in New York City. “I chose the center of Times Square,” he explained.
“Were there a lot of people in the street?” Judge Cedarbaum asked.
“Yes,” Mr. Shahzad replied. “Obviously the time, it was evening, and obviously it was a Saturday, so that’s the time I chose.”
“You wanted to injure a lot of people?” the judge asked.
Mr. Shahzad said that he had, that he wanted “to injure people or kill people.”
But he said “one has to understand where I’m coming from.” He said that he considered himself “a Muslim soldier,” and that United States and NATO forces had attacked Muslim lands.
Judge Cedarbaum interjected: “But not the people who were walking in Times Square that night. Did you look around to see who they were?”
Mr. Shahzad replied, “Well, the people select the government; we consider them all the same.”
“Including the children?” the judge asked.
“Well, the drone hits in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Mr. Shahzad replied, “they don’t see children; they don’t see anybody. They kill women, children. They kill everybody. It’s a war. And in war, they kill people. They’re killing all Muslims.”
The confession came soon after the indictment after fresh evidence emerged leading the trail of investigation to funding by Islamist Extremists in Pakistan- particularly the Tehrik-i-Taliban, that the Prosecution submitted couple of days earlier.
In court, he admitted receiving the training, saying he had gone to find the Taliban and learned how to build a bomb that he planned to detonate as part of his plan.
“With them, I did the training to wage an attack inside the United States of America,” Mr. Shahzad said.
“Any kind of attack?” Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of Federal District Court asked.
“It would have been any kind of attack,” Mr. Shahzad said, “but I was given bomb training, and that’s what I learned there.”
The judge told him that the first charge he faced was attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. How do you plead? the judge asked.
“I do plead guilty to this charge,” Mr. Shahzad said.
“I gather you want to plead guilty to all of them,” the judge said later.
“Yes,” Mr. Shahzad said.
He set the device to explode in about five minutes, he said, and then walked away. The bombs did not go off.
“And I don’t know the reason why,” Mr. Shahzad said. “I was waiting to hear a sound, but I couldn’t hear any sound, so I thought it probably didn’t go off. So I just walked to the Grand Central and went home.” – concludes the report by Colin Moynehan.
As to the genesis of this kind of hate that is not very hard to understand given his moorings to which he returned, Pakistan-
I made a pact with them – he recalls nonchalantly, during the 40 days sojourn there after which he returned to the States.
He also admitted to have spent 5 days with Bomb making techniques.
Money was sent twice amounting 8000$ twice, and the New York Times described the setting-
Mr. Shahzad described building three explosive devices in his home in Bridgeport, Conn., and placing them inside the Nissan Pathfinder that he later drove to Times Square. He said the main component of the device was a fertilizer-based bomb held in a gun cabinet in the Pathfinder’s trunk. If that bomb did not work, his plans were to detonate propane gas cylinders and to start a fire in the car with gasoline.
The report further tots up -
“Faisal Shahzad plotted and launched an attack that could have led to serious loss of life,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said, “and today the American criminal justice system ensured that he will pay the price for his actions.”
Mr. Bharara said the investigation was continuing; his office refused to comment on whether Mr. Shahzad was continuing to cooperate.
Judge Cedarbaum scheduled the sentencing for Oct. 5.
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