Posted on 05/05/2010 6:58:09 AM PDT by Zakeet
Not long ago, Faisal Shahzad had a pretty enviable life: He became an American citizen after emigrating from Pakistan, where he came from a wealthy family. He earned an MBA. He had a well-educated wife and two kids and owned a house in a middle-class Connecticut suburb.
In the past couple of years, though, his life seemed to unravel: He left a job at a global marketing firm he'd held for three years, lost his home to foreclosure and moved into an apartment in an impoverished neighborhood in Bridgeport. And last weekend, authorities say, he drove an SUV loaded with explosives into Times Square intent on blowing it up.
The bomb didn't go off, and Shahzad was arrested on a plane in New York as he tried to leave the country. He was in custody Tuesday and couldn't be reached for comment. Authorities say he is cooperating and has admitted getting explosives training in his native Pakistan.
Shahzad's behavior sometimes seemed odd to his neighbors, and he surprised a real estate broker he hardly knew with his outspokenness about President George W. Bush and the Iraq war.
"He mentioned that he didn't like Bush policies in Iraq," said Igor Djuric, who represented Shahzad in 2004 when he was buying a home.
Djuric said he couldn't remember the exact words Shahzad used about Bush but "something to the effect of he doesn't know what he's doing and it's the wrong thing that he's doing."
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Shahzad, 30, is the son of a former top Pakistani air force officer, according to Kifyat Ali, a cousin of Shahzad's father. He came to the United States in late 1998 on a student visa, according to an official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity ...
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Another issue: claims the house was bought in 2004 "at the height of the market". Are they stupid, or just lying? I bought a home in 2004 and sold it in 2006 and made a killing. Unfortunately, I plowed the money into another....
The article doesn't state when he was naturalized. Did he go through the naturalization process, or is his wife a citizen and that's how he became a citizen? So many oddities.
“He quits his job, then loses his house and has to move into a slum.”
They showed the place he was living last night on FOX, and it aint no slum. In fact its a nice looking place. My question where does a guy out of work get the money for rent, and cash to buy a car on Craigs List, and for airplace tickets? Is there a money trail from the middle east, and if so is there any other money trails leading to others waiting to strike?
Unraveled? Sounds more like radicalized, to me.
So let me get this straight. Terrorists hate Bush but are okay with Comrade Zero? Does the AP actually believe this take on terrorism is the best thing for their hero, Zero? Just goes to prove “journalists” are not the brightest bulbs in the pack
Whatever his motivation, it sounds like his only success has been achieved through copulation — there’s a scary thought. I’m sure he’ll get three hots and a cot for a long time because, for once, his incompetence has worked in his favor.
Daddy????
“He mentioned that he didn’t like Bush policies in Iraq,”
hmmm....I wonder if Cindy Sheehan has bought any clunker rustbuckets off of Craigslist recently....
“Wow, a terrorist who doesn’t like Bush. I’m shocked”
You might want to add that this terrorist is a registered Democrat who probably voted for Obama....Birds of a feather, flock together.
It's not the radical Islam.
It's the need for a much BIGGER stimulus package.
Well, Rahm, never let a good crisis go to waste, right?
The new name for the New York Times?
I got a big pile of boo-freakin’-hoo right here....
Not a single news source would have defended a lone nut “teabagger” for this plot.
American Pravda commits treason with their yellow journalist screed in support of “social justice” and defending the thought processes of a terrorist.
He trained and plotted to kill because he follows a supremacist ideology known as “radical” (or true) Islam.
Muslims have been infiltrating into USA society & communities for over 30 years.
This is a long range plan for them. They are males, coming single & getting here on ‘student visas’. I contend it would be cheaper & safer to send ‘professors’ over to their countries.
They over stay their visas- marry Liberal American women who they have spent time targeting.
They are here in numbers that would horrify you.
Why are there over 80 mosques in Detroit?
Why has Minneapolis become the Somali center of the USA?
Look hard, people.
We are under a silent seige!!
Sounds like Democrat Presidential material.
I thought he married an American woman so he could get his citizenship.
Why was she in Pakistan? A hostage so he would try the bombing?
He was of Islam, and a registered Democrat. Why is it the latter is less remarkable than being a registered Republican, or even his being a registered voter?
If he hated GW, he hated me, too. And if he hated GW because of intervention, he's got much more cause to hate Obama, presently engaged in a robotic air to ground assassination campaign over Pakistan.
Clearly he lost faith in the process (LOL), and that could be better tied to Obama's policies, with regard to "Pah-KEE-Stawn."
Today, WaPo reported:
"In June, he abruptly quit his job as a financial analyst. The three-bedroom, two-plus-bath house he shared with his wife and two children in Shelton, Conn., was put on the market. The young family that neighbors often saw playing outside was suddenly gone.
When Shahzad resurfaced in the United States in February, it appears to have been with a new purpose. He ignored the foreclosure filings of his mortgage lender, and, according to authorities, spent his money on a prepaid cellphone, tanks of propane and a used car."
So you see, AP simply reversed cause and effect to build their big lie.
Blame belong in ONE spot only CONGRESS.
This is a typical dishonest corrupt Muslim blaming someone else for his own shortcomings and looking for sympathy from the current administration because the chance for real bungling is optimum.
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