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Life in Prison for Would-Be Times Square Bomber
nytimes ^

Posted on 10/05/2010 12:29:15 PM PDT by traumer

Faisal Shahzad, who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a sport utility vehicle carrying a homemade bomb in May in Times Square, thick with Saturday visitors, was sentenced on Tuesday morning to spend the rest of his life in prison. Remaining defiant, and smirking as the sentence was read, he told the court: “Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun.”

He later continued: “The defeat of the U.S. is imminent and will happen in the near future.”

Mr. Shahzad, 30, was sentenced by Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum in Federal District Court in Manhattan. As those filling the courtroom listened, she told Mr. Shahzad, “You are a young man, and you will have a lot of time to reflect about what you have said today, and what you have done.”

The outcome of the hearing was a foregone conclusion, since Mr. Shahzad’s no-deals guilty plea June 21, in which he spoke at length about his training with the Pakistani Taliban and his desire that day to “plead guilty 100 times over.”

Mr. Shahzad’s vehicle, loaded with explosives as ill equipped to detonate as they were powerful, was found in Times Square on May 1, and he was arrested two days later aboard an airplane about to leave for Dubai. He immediately began cooperating with the authorities. Investigators later exploded a similar vehicle with an operational bomb inside, and estimated that the blast could have killed dozens.

(Excerpt) Read more at cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com ...


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1 posted on 10/05/2010 12:29:16 PM PDT by traumer
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“Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun.”
2 posted on 10/05/2010 12:29:57 PM PDT by traumer
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0 told us we weren't at war with Islam...what gives?
3 posted on 10/05/2010 12:31:03 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a blessing to live in the Ozarks.)
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Great.

Now we taxpayers have to support this maggot until he dies.

A 5.56mm round between the running lights would have been a lot cheaper and I would volunteer to deliver it, myself.


4 posted on 10/05/2010 12:31:10 PM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November from my house.)
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To: traumer

He will have a lifetime of converting American criminals and putting them on our streets. Sweet.


5 posted on 10/05/2010 12:31:14 PM PDT by 353FMG (Unless stopped, ISLAM will be the end of America.)
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To: traumer

He will have a lifetime to teach others in prison all he knows.


6 posted on 10/05/2010 12:31:22 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: fungoking

0 told us we weren’t at war with Islam...what gives?

>>>>>>>>

After we “absorb” another attack, Imam Hussein 0bama will give it some thought.


7 posted on 10/05/2010 12:32:30 PM PDT by unkus
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To: traumer

Housing suggestions: Ft. Leavenworth or the Aryan Nation wing of Attica


8 posted on 10/05/2010 12:32:34 PM PDT by slapshot (w)
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To: traumer; an amused spectator

He’s not a “would be” bomber, save that moniker for the jihadists who thought they were detonating a bomb but really handed a dummy remote by FBI agents.

This is a bomb plot but he was still had deadly intent. He was THWARTED after it had been planted.


9 posted on 10/05/2010 12:33:02 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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10 posted on 10/05/2010 12:35:40 PM PDT by traumer
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Faisal Shahzad gets life in prison for a single bomb that failed.

Bill Ayres' multiple bombs did work and he got a professorship at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

I's a strange world we live in.

11 posted on 10/05/2010 12:37:59 PM PDT by South40 (Filled with hatred for those who disagree, democrats are the most intolerant bigots on earth)
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How can this be a war when our president has already surrendered?
12 posted on 10/05/2010 12:41:34 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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He won’t come into contact with his fellow inmates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence

The clean version of Hell.


13 posted on 10/05/2010 12:41:54 PM PDT by Ronbo1948
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WOW! Post of the year!


14 posted on 10/05/2010 12:42:12 PM PDT by sappy (criminalibs)
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To: traumer

So we have to support this scumbag for the rest of his life, listen to his ramblings and subject people to the threat of some other kook retaliating. Just take him outside and shoot him, send him on his way to his 72 virgins.


15 posted on 10/05/2010 12:46:53 PM PDT by JrsyJack (a healthy dose of buckshot will probably get you the last word in any argument.)
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You know this is interesting, the perp of the failed Times Square bombing gets a life sentence and another successful bombing perp walks around free and his university colleagues praise him.

Bill

"I don't regret setting bombs"

Ayers



16 posted on 10/05/2010 12:48:03 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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I request a pork-heavy menu for this scumbag.


17 posted on 10/05/2010 12:49:19 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
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How many hostages are going to die because we failed to execute him?
18 posted on 10/05/2010 12:50:37 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (If Obama was the answer---that must have been one stupid question!)
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To: South40

Great point...


19 posted on 10/05/2010 12:51:14 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: colorado tanker; potlatch; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; nuconvert

How can this be a war when our president has already surrendered?

20 posted on 10/05/2010 12:53:54 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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