“Defiant Faisal Shahzad, Pakistani immigrant who tried to bomb Times Square, sentenced to life”
BY SCOTT SHIFREL AND LARRY MCSHANE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Tuesday, October 5th 2010, 11:00 AM
Updated: Tuesday, October 5th 2010, 9:26 PM
SNIPPET: “Still proud of his plot to inflict car-bomb carnage on Times Square, unrepentant terrorist Faisal Shahzad stood smirking Tuesday as he was sentenced to die behind bars.
“In the name of Allah ... this is but one life,” the would-be mass murderer declared in a 10-minute diatribe before receiving a sentence of life without parole.
“If I am given a thousand lives, I will sacrifice them all for the sake of Allah fighting this cause.... Consider me only a first droplet of the flood that will follow.”
The 31-year-old native Pakistani eagerly embraced the vile title of terrorist for his failed May1 attack with a homemade bomb at the Crossroads of the World.
The one-time suburban Connecticut dad blessed World Trade Center mastermind Osama Bin Laden and admitted lying when he took the oath of American citizenship last year.”
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/640042.aspx
Rajesh Ahuja, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, December 18, 2010
First Published: 21:33 IST(18/12/2010)
Last Updated: 02:01 IST(19/12/2010)
“US memo, jailed IM man reveal Al Qaeda’s India links”
SNIPPET: “After the blast, Shahzad was interrogated for more information, which is when he shed light on the Al Qaeda’s influence on the IM.”
SNIPPET: “Furthermore, former Pakistani army major Abdul Rehman alias Pasha, who joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba after leaving the army, was in regular touch with Amir Raza Khan, Karachi-based top IM operative and Atif’s handler.
Pasha was also in touch with David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-American who helped the lashkar select targets for the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Headley has told Indian investigators he formed a great bond with Pasha and that it was Pasha who took him to meet Kashmiri in Waziristan.”
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3936/miami-imam-convicted-of-supporting-pakistani
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“Miami Imam Convicted of Supporting Pakistani Taliban”
by IPT News • Mar 4, 2013 at 6:13 pm
SNIPPET: “The 77-year-old former leader of Miami’s oldest mosque was convicted Monday of providing material support to the Pakistani Taliban and of aiding a conspiracy to murder, maim and kidnap people abroad.
Hafiz Khan faces up to 15 years in prison for each of the four counts on which he was convicted and is scheduled to be sentenced in May. He sent $50,000 overseas, including money that went to a madrassa where children “learn to kill Americans in Afghanistan,” the indictment said.
He had been imam at Miami’s Flagler Mosque since 1999. Though supporters decried his 2011 indictment, evidence showed he wanted Pakistan’s government replaced by one adhering to strict Islamic law and that he wished that “all opponents of Islam [need] to be destroyed.”
He also praised the failed 2010 Times Square bombing attempt by Faisal Shahzad.
The Pakistani Taliban is suspected of training Shahzad.”