Posted on 05/06/2010 5:17:19 PM PDT by Libloather
The 'Unremarkable' Life Of Faisal Shahzad
Nothing About Times Square Bombing Suspect Ever Seemed To Make Him Stand Out At Home, Or In Pakistan
Reporting Tony Aiello
May 6, 2010 6:11 am US/Eastern
NEW YORK (CBS) - Faisal Shahzad lived much of the last 12 years in and around Bridgeport, Conn. He finished college, got married, started a family, and held down a job. It was a seemingly normal life, until it suddenly wasn't.
At the University of Bridgeport, he was an unremarkable student. At his former job in Norwalk, he was an unremarkable employee. And at his one time home in Shelton, neighbor Mary Ann Galich considered Shahzad and family an unremarkable presence on Long Hill Avenue.
"They were out having picnics on the back porch," she recalled. "Very normal."
And yet, the feds said Shahzad admits doing something remarkably dangerous and potentially deadly after parking an explosives-laden SUV near the heart of Times Square.
Shahzad returned to the U.S. in February.
After spending several months visiting his native Pakistan in the village of Mohib Banda, people who knew Shahzad call him ordinary and unremarkable.
Mongi Dhaouadi a leader in the Connecticut Muslim community and member of the Committee on American-Islamic Relations, wondered if months in Pakistan somehow radicalized Shahzad.
"Like all the American people we are still trying to make sense out of this. How can a gentleman who seems to have a regular life, yet he thought about doing something like this?" he asked.
When Shahzad returned to Bridgeport, he rented an apartment on Sheridan Street. His landlord rushed past reported without comment Wednesday.
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No. Pahk-ee-stahn, yes.
Some day I’ll learn not to reply until I read the whole post. Won’t be any day soon, I’m afraid.
We;, if there’s so much more transparency about this non-native born Muslim U.S. citizen person of color than there is about BO, it might very well make sense to the fifth column media to see whether they can boost this newly minted name to be president. After all no one heard of Barack Hussein Obama just a few years ago. They’re already pushing a sob narrative, “He became frustrated at some financial set backs, etc)
It’s disgusting that the media rush to CAIR (Committee on American-Islamic Relations) for their point of view, when CAIR is the propaganda arm of Islamic Jihad. Federal law enforcement knows and has proven the Islamic Jihad ties of CAIR, yet the media are accomplices in passing along myth about the CAIR offices across the United States. If the media do this because they think they’re getting “a moderate point of view, they’re not. They’re giving the terrorists propaganda for the terrorists and pretence that U.S. mosques have nothing to do with terrorism. On camera CAIR distances itself from the jihadists.
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