Posted on 05/07/2010 3:42:08 AM PDT by tobyhill
Investigators of the failed car bombing in Times Square are looking for a money courier they say helped funnel cash from overseas to finance a Pakistani-American's preparations to blow up the crude gasoline-and-propane bomb in the heart of New York, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Investigators have the name of the courier who they believe helped Faisal Shahzad pay for the used SUV and other materials to rig up a car bomb that would have caused a huge fireball in Times Square if it had gone off, the official told the AP. The official didn't know how much money may have changed hands.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation.
U.S. law enforcement officials traveled to Pakistan — where Shahzad spent five months before returning to the U.S. in February — to question four alleged members of an al-Qaida-linked militant group. Investigators are trying to trace his movements in his homeland and looking into the possible financing of the operation between the Pakistan-born budget analyst and foreign terror groups.
Shahzad, 30, who remains in custody on terrorism and weapons charges, lived alone in a Bridgeport, Conn., and rented an apartment with no apparent job since February. He is seen on videotape buying boxes of fireworks from a Pennsylvania store and authorities say he bought a rifle in Connecticut over the past three months with no apparent source of income.
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Lots of “lone wolves” get money from abroad to finance whatever it pleases them to be doing.
The police are scouring the country for evidence, while the media scours video tapes hoping to find him in a Tea Party rally.
I heard some tabloid show actually found documents in his trash after the FBI left.
Why do I have little trouble believing that?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j4tuPpg1orzDx0RSo4cEqH1AQq9gD9FG8T580
The Connecticut Post and The New York Times reported Tuesday that their reporters found Faisal Shahzad’s (FY’-sul shah-ZAHD’) tax records, college transcripts, timecards from a 2001 temporary accounting job and other documents
Well they might want to look among the group that is putting up the 15-story mosque within two blocks of the WTC site (as per another thread).
Muslim brother!
Hey Dude, didn't you get the memo?
Obama has banned the use of the words Muslim and Islam in ways that might reflect negatively on that religion!
Some one off...
Yeah, but “finding” a white man in his 40s who turns out to have been the money courier serves Bamster’s purposes.
The courier should have helped him pay his mortgage.
Off with both their heads!
I wonder if the writer would characterize the bomb as "crude" if he was standing beside it when it went off. Calling it "crude" is an attempt to minimize the incident.
The paperwork did not fit obama’s and the FBI’s template. We have no government any more... just overlords.
LLS
I like Mark Levin’s moniker for the guy: “Fuzzy Shazam”
Inside Edition found pertinent documents and called the FBI.
I believe the FBI found those documents and threw them away. Not expecting the msm to do a search. After all the man had been gone from the house for nearly a year.
I also believe he was using the house as a safe house for the past year. A couple of thousand dollars was also found ‘discarded’.
Really???????
Shahzad, ... lived alone in a Bridgeport, Conn., and rented an apartment with no apparent job since February. He is seen on videotape buying boxes of fireworks from a Pennsylvania store and authorities say he bought a rifle in Connecticut over the past three months with no apparent source of income.
So what's the big deal about 'no apparent job' and 'no apparent income'? That 'profile' of Shahzad matches 30 Million Illegals who also have 'no apparent job' or 'no apparent source of income'.
Yet these illegals get credit cards, mortgages, pay rent, buy cars and drive, buy guns, wire money home to meh-he-ho every week (and *most* even Vote). And a good percentage also have 'contact' with police Depts all over the country and easily make bail and then --- no punitive action is ever taken.
They do this all with 'no apparent job' or 'no apparent source of income'. So will the FBI now start tracking them and will DHS put all 30 million illegals on their 'Terrorist Watch List'?
Yeah. When monkeys fly out of my butt!
“Calling it “crude” is an attempt to minimize the incident.”
I can’t read the reporter’s mind, but I think it’s a legitimate distinction. Crude vs. a “sophisticated explosive device.” It’s saying more about the competence of the perp than the dangerousness of the weapon. Thinking readers might even then realize that had a similarly motivated but competent bomber done the identical thing, the results would have been disastrous.
As more details come out every day, more and more egg ends up on the face of Napolitano and DHS—not to mention the bozo who put her in charge.
Of course, the most alert readers also are “connecting the dots” between the performance of Arizona’s current governor on the illegal immigration issue relative to Napolitano’s while she held the identical post. It’s a safe bet DHS would be managed very differently if Jan Brewer were in charge. I, for one, would feel much safer.
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