Posted on 05/04/2010 2:30:18 AM PDT by XHogPilot
Federal agents and police detectives arrested a Connecticut man, a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan, shortly before midnight Monday for driving a car bomb into Times Square on Saturday evening in what turned out to be an unsuccessful attack. (snip)
The man, Faisal Shahzad, 30, was believed to have recently bought the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder that was found loaded with gasoline, propane, fireworks and fertilizer. (snip)
The authorities began focusing on Mr. Shahzad after they tracked the sport utility vehicle to its previously registered owner in Bridgeport, Conn., who had advertised it for sale on several Web sites. He paid cash, and the sale was handled without any formal paperwork.
The former owner told investigators that it appeared the buyer was of Middle Eastern or Hispanic descent, but could not recall his name.
Early Tuesday, at Mr. Shahzads former home in Shelton, Conn., just outside Bridgeport, a neighbor said that Mr. Shahzad and his wife, Huma Mian, spoke limited English, and kept mostly to themselves. The couple had two young children, a girl and a boy, said the neighbor, Brenda Thurman.
Ms. Thurman said the couple had lived at the house at 119 Long Hill Avenue for about three years before moving out last year. Mr. Shahzad left around May (2009), she said, and his wife followed about a month later.
Ms. Thurman said Mr. Shahzad got up early every morning and left to work nicely dressed, and had told her that he worked on Wall Street.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
CORRECTION: “white car” = “white van”
Yes, it's disgusting - it infuriates me that no one will talk about "the elephant in the room" The muslim terrorist cult that plagues all western societies....We need leadership that calls it what it is.
In cities like NYC it’s mostly an upside being a terrorists dream playground
HOLY CRAP! MSNBC WAS RIGHT! IT WAS A *TEABAGGER*!!!
Good point.
I don't wonder. I've noticed a lot of "people watching" at tea party events. I'm sure there's more that I don't see. We joke about being on lists. Black humor, of course.
I think we’ve a pretty good idea what was going through his mind, but what are we doing naturalizing a Pakistani who speaks “limited English”?
They should have put "Chief Moose" in charge.
I just emailed Mayor Bloomberg and gave him a piece of my mind for assuming his fellow citizens are terrorists. I am sick to death of that assumption, that wish. They are salivating, hoping for a conservative to cause trouble. Bastards.
mussie scum is mussie scum. Thats akk ya need to know.
I am so glad they caught the White Guy that hated the healthcare bill........He must of been a Tea Party type...Oh wait, how did you say they caught?
Those darn balding white middle-age...Pakistanis.
Didn’t ObaMao just have a meeting or a seminar or something on how to develop more business with the muzz? Sounds like this suspect was one of the point men for that effort. Yup, gotta bring these jihadis in to the country for “bizzness,” don’tcha know. ObaMao is going to get us all wiped out.
“Nicely dressed”. Just like the 9/11 terrorists, they can’t be terrorists because they’re “nicely dressed”?? What IS it with these women? It’s embarrassing!
--Mike The Maroon Bloomberg
Since you beat me to it by long shot, I'll just repost the quote.
What was it the Idiot-in-Chief said? Something like “America is not at war with Islam...America will never be at war with Islam.”
Apparently the other side doesn’t agree.
The real reason the arrest came so fast was because they knew of this guy already. Had the bomb gone off all of the evicence would have been destroyed(making the technology useless) and he would have made it out of the country.
I suppose we will get another speech from Nappy now about how "the system worked"!
There were actually some leftists media people out there that were convinced that it was a right wing nut job like me.
“BLOOMBERG SAYS BOMBER COULD BE HEALTH CARE OPPONENT”<p.
Where is his apology!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.