Investigators seek money courier in NYC bomb plot (but, but, there are no others here! /sarc) AP ^ | 5/7/2010 | TOM HAYS and RASOOL DAWAR
Posted on Friday, May 07, 2010 6:42:08 AM by tobyhill
Excerpt:
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.
Supporters of the youth wing of the Pakistani religious party Jamat-e-Islami rally to
support Faisal Shahzad, the suspect accused of the failed Times Square car bombing,
in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, May 6, 2010.
Pakistani officials say U.S. law enforcement officers have joined them in questioning four alleged members of an al-Qaida-linked militant group over possible links to the
Times Square bombing suspect
I haven't seen this posted. Did I miss a thread?
Earlier this week it was discovered that Shahzad was posting on terror websites since 2006...but that the Obama Administration took him off the terror watch list anyway.
Shahzad visited numerous websites devoted to ideological discussion of Islamism and Shariah law. His apparent online posts date back to at least 2006 — three years before the Times Square suspect became a naturalized American citizen.
“If the person on these websites is indeed the suspected bomber, the postings show that he was intellectually thinking about engaging in jihadism for a few years,” said Dr. Walid Phares, director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “Knowing that, the ideology of jihadism often has inspired violence and terrorism…
“These can be coined as Islamist Salafist websites where lots of material is posted, including theological, ideological and political texts and blogs,” Phares said, noting that he saw discussions about fatwas, jihad and other Islamist causes on these sites.”
As Walid Phares said in an interview on FOX and Friends earlier in the week, Faisal was no lone wolf: “When a guy makes a phone call, he’s no longer a lone wolf. A lone wolf is somebody who doesn’t tell anybody else about the issue. He doesn’t share that information. He made phone calls… He may be deployed as a lone wolf. It is much easier to send one terrorist as 10 terrorists. But, he is not alone with conducting terror.”
If the Obama Administration removed a guy like Faisal Shahzad from the terror watch list sometime after 2008, just what does a guy have to do to make Team Obama’s list? BigGovernment