Who is Huma Mian? Wife of Faisal Shahzad, Times Square bomb suspect

CS Monitor ^ | May 5, 2010 | Issam Ahmed

[avacado]

"We’ve been told over and over she’s an American citizen. FOX reported she’s a Pakistani....hmmm"

Yeah, what's the deal here? American or Pakistani?

[MestaMachine]

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My bad

[lonevoice]

According to CU enrollment records, the sisters of Huma Asif Mian, Hina Asif Mian and Suba Asif Mian also attended CU. Hina received an accounting degree in December of 2003 and then earned a master’s degree in accounting from CU-Denver. Suba attended school on the Boulder campus between August 2003 and August 2005. She transferred to UC-D and received her bachelor’s degree in biology in May 2007. The sisters shared a CU Family Housing unit from July 2002 to July 2004.

It would be ironic if any of these girls took classes with Ward Churchill while he was a professor at CU-Boulder from 1990-2007.

Hina Asif Mian’s brother, Mohammad Taufique Mian, is studying petroleum engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. Their father, Mohammad Asif Mian, earned a master’s in science and petroleum engineering at Mines in 1980 and a master’s in mineral economics in 1985, school spokeswoman Karen Gilbert said.

If Faisal had likewise studied petroleum engineering, especially if he'd gotten a master's degree like his father-in-law, he might not have tried to build a car bomb with non-explosive fertilizer. I don't like the sounds of this entire family, and I'm relieved to know that they're in custody.

[worst-case scenario]

Ah, the old blood feud!

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

He abandoned the house, since he was planning on blowing himself up

Not foreclosed on like a normal person.

But will the media stop saying it

ever?

[worst-case scenario]

How about the threat of being tried for treason? He’s an American citizen. They’ve got enough evidence on him to bring him up on a charge of Treason and have him executed.

If he agreed to talk, they would agree to life without parole.

The guy is a coward - we know that because rather than being a suicide bomber, he just ran away.

[MestaMachine]

Fox’s Katherine Herridge said he was making frequent trips to Pak attempting to reconcile with his wife. Her family is there. She booted him.

[Candor7]

http://www.tags-search.com/huma-mian/tag.html

[cynwoody]

Can somebody, somewhere *pleeeeeease* start asking some questions about the woman who sold her SUV to Mr. Shahzad in an all-cash/no-paperwork/no-questions-asked-not-even-his-name transaction? This is not something that normal people do.

Peggy Colas

From the Guardian:

Then at 7.30am, Detective John Wright slid underneath the car at a lab in Queens and found an identification number stamped under the engine block. That led authorities to a man in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and his 19-year-old daughter, Peggy Colas, who had posted ads on eBay and other websites offering a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder for sale, court papers said.

During questioning on Sunday morning and again Monday, the teenager told investigators that she met the man who bought her car at a supermarket parking lot on 24 April and he took the vehicle for a test drive. She was asking $1,800; he offered $500 less. She agreed and he paid her in cash, with 13 crisp $100 bills.

She said the buyer told her that no bill of sale was necessary and he already had plates. She did not know his name, but she did have a mobile number.

With regard to the mobile phone, he made the same mistake McVeigh made: using it for multiple purposes instead of just once, then leaving it where someone random will find it, use up its calling credit, and lead the investigation up a tree.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Thank you! Given her age and name, it sounds she was just naive or desperate for cash. How does someone “already have plates” for a car when they haven’t bought it yet?