Car bomb suspect struggled to find a place (All together now: Awwwwwwwwwww...)

Los Angeles Times ^ | May 5, 2010 | Geraldine Baum and Bob Drogin

[WeatherGuy]

Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani immigrant who police say has admitted parking an SUV bomb in New York, piled up debts and made few friends in the U.S.

For most of the past decade, Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad struggled to find his place in America, piling up debts and bouncing from one run-down neighborhood to another.

In 2004, he and his wife, Huma Mian, plunked down savings to take out a $218,400 mortgage for a two-story house in Shelton, a gritty Bridgeport suburb. The following year, Shahzad was awarded a master's of business administration degree from the University of Bridgeport, normally a ticket to a prosperous future.

[rocksblues]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703866704575224451665380256.html

Mr. Shahzad is the son of retired Air Vice Marshall Baharul Haq, a former top Pakistani air force officer and deputy director general of the civil aviation authority, according to Kifyat Ali, a cousin of Mr. Shahzad’s father. Mr. Ali, who spoke to the Associated Press, said Mr. Shahzad “was never linked to any political or religious party here” in Peshawar.

Not exactly from an impoverished family.

[Marauder]

Pobrecito.

There's some sympathy; now get a rope.

[garjog]

"Struggled to find his place."

Let's help him find his place:

[garjog]

“I thought Muslims aren’t supposed to get mortgages.”

Its OK as long as they are trying to fit into the infidel country that they are trying to destroy.

Just like going to strip clubs and drinking is OK when part of a martyrdom operation.

[353FMG]

If he had been a churchgoer and had a CHL the MSM would have had a cow. He would’ve probably made SLIME’s Man of the Year.

[Domandred]

Yes it was all the economic downturn and societies fault he tried to blow up Times Square. We shouldn’t lay blame on the poor boy.

(/sarc)

[mass55th]

If his salary ran between $5,000 and $22,000 during the years 2000 and 2001, just how much “savings” could they have had to put a down payment on a mortgage in 2004? And how were they able to get a $65,000 home equity loan on top of the mortgage? I’m 62, and have never owned a house, so I might be wrong in questioning how they were even allowed to get a mortgage based on his earnings. Maybe I should be asking Barney Frank or Chris Dodd that question. It would be interesting to see what his salary was for 2002 and 2003. There’s no mention of what his wife was doing, if she had a job or stayed home. There’s alot of questions surrounding this guy’s finances. Who paid for his schooling? American tax payers?

[Waryone]

This has to be the stupidest premise for a personal interest story as well as being one of the dumbest stories I have ever read. Oh poor baby! It lowers the IQ just imagining people might believe it.

[funfan]

Lot of weird things in the story—his neighbors said he and his wife spoke little english however they both graduated from American University's that seems a little odd to me

[CaptainK]

He put 20% down on his house. The entire thing makes no sense unless he was begin subsidized.

[catnipman]

Gee, I don’t recall any in-depth sob-sister pieces on the nine Hutaree bumpkins in the state-run-media, which has been full of apologies for their Muslim terrorist bomber friend. I wonder why that is exactly?

I’ll just be so deliriously happy when the NYT, LAT, and all the rest are eventually relegated by the market to the same status as the Daily Kos, Huffington Post, etc.

[catnipman]

There’s no mention of what his wife was doing, if she had a job or stayed home.

I wondered about this myself, since she received an accounting degree in 2004 at the University of Colorado.

[clintonh8r]

The bomb was just a cry for help, and the system failed him.....

[Utilizer]

I must remember never to hire anyone with a degree from the University of Bridgeport. If he received D's and F's from Southeastern University and despite that the University of Bridgeport gave him a degree -more than one degree, then obviously their standards are far, far below what should be expected for any reputable workplace.

[P-Marlowe]

Well, he has a place now. A 6x6 cell with 3 squares a day courtesy of the US Taxpayers.

[dragnet2]

If this would have been a white guy from Arkansas, this article would have been *very* different..

These screw worms that write this sh** cannot possibly pander to these foreigners any more than they already are.

[Redbob]

" Shahzad was awarded a master's of business administration degree from the University of Bridgeport, normally a ticket to a prosperous future."

Oh yeah, with an MBA from a prestige school like that, how could you go wrong?
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[Sophia777]

Oh for gods sake, so the guy was unhappy and he needed to go to a Pakistani training camp and learn how to make a car bomb?

What a bunch of BS,

Have the newspapers in the country also been invaded by Muslim apologist?

What is with this sympathy for the devil crap?

I am FED UP!

[Interesting Times]

Really, in a sense, didn’t we all pack that SUV with explosives? Didn’t we all build that bomb?

Nope.

[Sophia777]

Yea, they come here get free education, loans for homes, a grant to start a business, hell I would rather give it to the illegal Mexicans at this point.

My grandparents were immigrants they worked hard learned English, and didn’t try and blow anything up.