“Pakistan holds man linked to New York bomb suspect”
Friday, 14 May, 2010
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON: Pakistan has arrested a suspect linked to the Pakistani Taliban who said he helped the man accused of trying to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The suspect provided an “independent stream” of evidence that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was behind the failed attack on May 1, the newspaper said, citing US officials.
The suspect also admitted helping Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American man being held over the Times Square plot, to travel to Pakistan’s tribal areas for bomb-making training, the report said.
Officials familiar with the investigation cautioned that there have been inconsistencies in the two suspects’ accounts, the Post said.
The suspect in Pakistani custody “is believed to have a connection to the TTP,” a US intelligence official was quoted as saying.”
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2010/05/pakistani_taliban_take_credit_1.php
“Pakistani Taliban take credit for failed Times Square attack, again”
By BILL ROGGIO
May 14, 2010 12:15 PM