“UPDATED: ‘Shahzad Faisal’ Arrested At JFK For Failed Times Square Car Bomb”
May 4, 2010
12:10AM EST:
SNIPPET: “UPDATE 12:46AM EST: The arrest took place at JFK Airport in New York, while the suspect was trying to board a plane to go overseas. It’s destination was not immediately known, a federal law enforcement official said.
UPDATE 12:55AM EST: A U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, Shahzad Faisal, was trying to leave the country Monday night at John F Kennedy International Airport when he was picked up by Customs and Border Protection agents, NBC New reported.”
Previously...
http://southasiaanalysis.org/papers38/paper3794.html
Paper no. 3794
04-May-2010
“NY Terrorist Attempt: Pak Taliban & Islamic Jihad Union among Suspects - International Terrorism Monitor-—Paper No. 642”
By B. Raman
SNIPPET: “While the New York Police are still to reach any conclusion regarding the responsibility for the attempted incendiary attack in the Times Square of New York on the evening of May 1, 2010, tribal sources in Pakistan suspect that it was a joint attempt by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), also known as the Islamic Jihad Group.”
Note: “The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai.”