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Sources: Shahzad Had Contact With Awlaki, Taliban Chief, and Mumbai Massacre Mastermind
ABC News ^

Posted on 05/06/2010 1:33:06 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Sources: Shahzad Had Contact With Awlaki, Taliban Chief, and Mumbai Massacre Mastermind

Faisal Shahzad Said To Have Linked Up With Taliban Through Internet, But Already High-Placed Contacts

Post a Comment By RICHARD ESPOSITO, CHRIS VLASTO and CHRIS CUOMO May 6, 2010

Accused Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad linked up with the Pakistani Taliban through the internet, ABC News has been told by law enforcement and intelligence sources close to the investigation. Once the Taliban identified him as more valuable in the U.S. than in Pakistan, they trained him to return to execute his bomb attack.

But according to these sources, Shahzad also had a web of jihadist contacts that included big names tied to terror attacks in the U.S. and abroad, including the figure who has emerged as a central figure in many recent domestic terror attempts - radical American-born Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki.

Besides Awlaki, sources say Shahzad was also linked to a key figure in the Pakistani Taliban, its Emir Beitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a drone missile strike in 2009. The Mehsuds had been family friends of Shahzad, who is the son of a former high-ranking Pakistani military officer.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: linkstoalqaeda; linkstotaliban; pakiterror; shahzad
Paging Janet Incompentano............
1 posted on 05/06/2010 1:33:07 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

That ws just his mortgage advisor.


2 posted on 05/06/2010 1:34:54 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: Sub-Driver

Dammit, Faisalo, in Pakistan, we told you not to use cash to buy a plane ticket. You have to blame Bush for causing you to lose your home and causing temporary insanity. Now, you will have to wait until my second term to become my Director of Homeland Security.

3 posted on 05/06/2010 1:37:50 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: Sub-Driver
including the figure who has emerged as a central figure in many recent domestic terror attempts - radical American-born Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki.

Just a coincidence how many domestic "lone nut" terrorist attacks involve this guy...

4 posted on 05/06/2010 1:39:02 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Janet only cares when a conservative might be involved. Especially if the person’s a vet...


5 posted on 05/06/2010 1:47:14 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Draw Mohammad Day" - - May 20, 2010 - Draw for freedom - draw for your children's freedom.)
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To: Sub-Driver

When they wake up and finally do their jobs, investigative reporters can uncover all kinds of things.


6 posted on 05/06/2010 1:54:43 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: a fool in paradise

7 posted on 05/06/2010 1:54:53 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: Sub-Driver

He was “misguided”....


8 posted on 05/06/2010 1:59:30 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: Dallas59

wow the authorities are doing a bang up job on the WOT. Maybe they should try NOT to find threats and then they might stumble bassackward into these guy.


9 posted on 05/06/2010 2:19:15 PM PDT by Ktulu
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To: Sub-Driver

This is getting curiouser and curiouser! By the day!!

No wonder the FBI burst in and ‘took over’ the investigation.

Does he work for Obama? (my personal favorite)

Hey....if that MSNBC chick can hope for an angry white Christian? Fair is fair. ;^)


10 posted on 05/06/2010 2:35:43 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Sub-Driver

Is Bill Ayres one of his professors?

Radical racists, anti-Americans, domestic/foreign terrorists, terrorist sympathizers and corrupt corporations. These are the people that Barack Obama counts as friends, as supporters, as mentors, as co-workers.

With a warped, slimy president with friends like these, who needs enemies? What favors does he owe these terrorists/friends??


11 posted on 05/06/2010 2:39:31 PM PDT by Shade_Trees_56
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To: Shade_Trees_56

Actually, what does the globalist elite owe to the terrorists?


12 posted on 05/06/2010 5:18:03 PM PDT by myknowledge (B.H. Obama's just a frontman. A frontman for who? The globalist elite, stupid!)
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