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“Pakistan: NY bomb suspect ‘met Taliban explosives expert’”
Islamabad, 5 May (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad -
SNIPPET: “Pakistani investigators believe the man accused of the failed bomb attack in Times Square, Faisal Shahzad, learned about explosives from a senior Taliban expert at a training camp in Pakistan. Mohammad Rehan, one of eight people arrested in Pakistan late Tuesday, is accused of introducing Shahzad to militants gave him lessons in handling explosives.
According to security sources Rehan was arrested in the Pakistani southern port city of Karachi.
He is suspected of taking Shahzad, a son of retired senior air force officer, to the northern city of Peshawar and then to North Waziristan, which is now a Taliban stronghold.
Officials believe 30-year-old Shahzad, a Karachi-born Pushtun, had no relationship with any militant organisation, until Rehan put him in contact with Qari Hussain Mehsud, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban’s suicide squad and explosives expert.
Hussain is believed to have provided training to Shahzad on improvised explosives on a recent visit to Pakistan.”
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May 05, 2010
“Ghosts of Fort Hood Haunting Time Square”
SNIPPET: “He had ammo in the SUV. He had a gun in his trunk at the airport. Again, but for the grace of God Faisal Shahzad would have had the same success as Nidal Hasan.
But that’s not the only thing the failed Times Square bomber had in common with the successful mass murderer at Fort Hood:
A few weeks after he moved in, Mr. LaMonica said, investigators from the national Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed him, asking for details of the transaction and for information about Mr. Shahzad.”
By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at May 5, 2010 05:06 PM