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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,...

An American man of Pakistani descent taken into custody in connection with the botched car bombing in New York City's Times Square was due to appear in court Tuesday. The man, a U.S. citizen who had recently returned from a trip to Pakistan, was identified by officials as 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad. He was detained at 11:45 p.m. Monday night at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York before an overseas flight. Attorney General Eric Holder said at a news conference early Tuesday morning that Mr. Shahzad was preparing to fly to Dubai. Mr. Shahzad, who was born in Karachi and...

SRINAGAR: At least 12 people were killed and 100 injured on Monday when a vehicle bomb exploded near a school in Pulwama town of Jammu and Kashmir. The blast shook the town of Pulwama, 30 kilometers south of Srinagar, at around 11.00 am. Police said two people were killed on the spot, while two died on the way to hospital in Srinagar. "So far four people have died and over 50 are injured," a spokesman said. "Initial reports suggest that an improvised explosive device fitted to a vehicle - either a truck or a car - detonated," he said. The...

Federal officials believe they have broken up an al Qaeda terror cell operating in Lodi and have arrested two men and detained two others as part of a wide-ranging investigation, authorities said Tuesday. One of the men arrested, 22-year-old Hamid Hayat, is accused in a federal criminal complaint of training in an al Qaeda camp in Pakistan to learn “how to kill Americans” and then lying to FBI agents about it. His training included explosives and weapons instruction and using photographs of President Bush as targets, court documents indicate. More:http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/v-print/story/13022958p-13869232c.html