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What motivated Faisal Shahzad to attempt to explode a car bomb in Times Square? Might it have anything to do with radial Islam, jihad, and anti-Western hatred? Nope. Not according many media outlets. Consider a story in today's Connecticut Post, a Bridgeport-based newspaper that's one of the state's largest dailies. It provides fascinating insights on what set off Shahzad -- insights that come from James Monahan, a clinical psychologist and associate professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven. "Maybe he (Shahzad) was the runt of the litter; the child who couldn't meet his parents' expectations," Monahan told...

It remains a mystery: Where did the alleged Times Square terrorist – a Muslim man with an apparent zeal for Islam – go to mosque? The Council on American-Islamic Relations says it surveyed the mosques in suspect Faisal Shahzad's home state of Connecticut and concluded Shahzad did not worship at any of them and therefore was not religious. "I've asked everyone, 'Have you seen this person, have you heard of this person?'" said Mongi Dhaouadi, spokesman for CAIR's Connecticut chapter. "And the answer is 'no.'" WND, however, has learned that federal agents investigating the alleged car bomber paid a visit...

07 May 2010 ENEMIES, BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC By A. Aaron Weisburd SNIPPET: "If nothing else, I would hope that the Times Square attack of 01 May 2010 highlights the problematic nature of efforts to categorize terrorism as either foreign or domestic. In the end all terrorism is local, regardless of the terrorist, his cause, his ideology, his religion, his place of birth, where he was raised, etc. The threat is not either foreign or domestic, it is both foreign and domestic."

The story of the Times Square bomber reads like some Urdu dinner theater production of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" that got lost in translation between here and Peshawar: A man sets out to produce the biggest bomb on Broadway since "Dance a Little Closer" closed on its opening night in 1983. Everything goes right: He gets a parking space right next to Viacom, owners of the hated Comedy Central! But then he gets careless: He buys the wrong fertilizer. He fails to open the valve on the propane tank. And next thing you know his ingenious plot is the nonstop...

New Yorker’s once again put on edge, one week after the finding of a suv which had an IED put into it in order to blow it up as a car bomb in the heart of Times Square.

The Times Square bomber has direct ties to the Fort Hood massacre--the terrorist attack on U.S. soil which killed American servicemen and women and which the Pentagon refuses to acknowledge as a terrorist attack by Muslim extremists. In a new revelation yesterday, it turns out that the perpetrator of the failed Times Square attack had the very same Muslim imam as Major Hasan, the Fort Hood jihadist. The imam is the infamous Anwar al-Awlaki who served as a spiritual adviser to at least 3 of the hijackers who attacked the United States on 9/11. This is the same imam who...

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Why did Faisal Shahzad, the failed New York City Car Bomber, almost fly out of the United States on board a jetliner headed for the United Arab Emirates? I’ll tell you why—it’s because of people who think like Contessa Brewer, News anchor for MSNBC, that’s why. Brewer, like most Liberals, want their fake scenarios about life to be true and validated rather than accept evidence that they just might be wrong about their beliefs and their view of the world. So Ms. Brewer was “so hoping” that a White Christian Militiaman Bible believing anti-President Soetoro Timothy McVey type would have...

A man who sold accused Time Square bomber Faisal Shahzad fireworks said the alleged terrorist seemed like a "typical, average American guy."

WASHINGTON: American officials said that it was very likely that a radical group once thought unable to attack the United States had played a role in the bombing attempt in Times Square, elevating concerns about whether other militant groups could deliver at least a glancing blow on American soil. Officials said that after two days of intense questioning of the bombing suspect, Faisal Shahzad, evidence was mounting that the Pakistani Taliban, had helped inspire and train Shahzad in the months before he is alleged to have parked an explosives-filled sport utility vehicle in a busy Manhattan intersection on Saturday night....

Confessed terrorist Faisal Shahzad was removed from the Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list sometime after Barack Obama came into office. CBS reported:

Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad has told investigators that he drew inspiration from the teachings of the fugitive imam who communicated with the sole suspect in last year's deadly rampage at Fort Hood, according to people familiar with the matter. U.S. officials said that Mr. Shahzad didn't appear to have communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical U.S.-born cleric who exchanged dozens of emails with suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan in the run-up to the November assault that left 13 soldiers dead. But the officials said Mr. Shahzad told his interrogators that he read Mr. Awlaki's English-language writings...

Anytime MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Fox News’ Glenn Beck agree on an issue, then one must examine said issue very critically. Because it is very likely they are misinforming the American public. Such is the case regarding the controversy of providing Miranda warnings to Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad. Both claimed ... http://tremoglieteatime.blogspot.com/2010/05/beck-and-olbermann-get-it-wrong.html

Shahzad on Homeland Security list since 1999; VIDEO May 6th, 2010 Yes, siree, the Times Square bomber who was pulled out of the plane that would have taken him out of the country after his terror attack had been on the Homeland Security list since before the second WTC attack: Faisal Shahzad on Homeland Security List Since 1999 Sources tell CBS News that would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad appeared on a Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list – Traveler Enforcement Compliance System (TECS) – between 1999 and 2008 because he brought approximately $80,000 cash or cash instruments into...

KARACHI, Pakistan, May 5 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities arrested an acquaintance and relative of the suspect linked to a failed plot to blow up New York City's Times Square, officials said. U.S. authorities are interrogating Pakistani-born Faisal Shahzad for his alleged role in a plot to detonate a car bomb in Times Square during the weekend. The naturalized U.S. citizen was apprehended late Monday at New York's John F. Kennedy airport and is said to be cooperating with authorities. He is charged with acts of terrorism and an attempt to use a weapon of mass destruction.

The stunning events of September 11, 2001, were a potential template for future terrorist attacks. But since then, al-Qaida and its affiliates have been unable to mount a similar encore in the United States. The foiled Times Square attack may be a sign that these groups have been forced to shift tactics to smaller operations that are less spectacular, but are also harder to detect. Former CIA counterterrorism chief Robert Grenier says the failed Times Square bombing last Saturday may indicate that al-Qaida and its allies have abandoned more grandiose plans for the United States and are emphasizing smaller but...

Theirs was an arranged marriage: two well-educated children of prominent Pakistani families set up through a mutual friend. He was the quiet one; she was the one who laughed at parties. At their wedding in Peshawar six years ago, men and women danced separately but also together, “a rarity at that time,” recalled one guest. “It was such a huge gathering that even their family friends from Qatar came.” When they returned to the United States, his colleagues at the cosmetics maker Elizabeth Arden celebrated with a small office party.

It’s Matthews at his best, supported by two Tea Party hating formers CIA officials. It starts with Baer worrying that the next terror bomb will rip at the very fabric of the country empowering crazy folks like the … Tea Party! Oh the humanity. Drumheller follows quickly with the next terror bomb dropped by an Islamic jihadist will stoke prejudice against …. Islamic jihadists. Matthews wraps it all into a neat bow with his”perhaps they just don’t know any middle easterners like I do” thing, or something.

This theory is sure to make it into the Virginian Pilot: ...he could end up being a Pakistani-American who trained in a Pakistani terrorist camp who is also incensed about federal intrusion into his life via Obamacare and inflamed by his inability to qualify for a loan modification,... On the other hand, perhaps it's some "teabagger"who's mad at the health care bill that sent a white power to the Arizona governor's office. We'll have to check the Pilot's news coverage tomorrow.

With many THANKS to the AP, a timeline of what lead up to the arrest of the man who planted the bomb-laden suv in Times Square. Using references to the Fox Tv Channel drama, “24″, and Jack Bauer, the AP and YouTube go over step-by-step to present what the the tee-shirt vendor saw, how the NYPD did their investagation, the FBI’s effort’s, and what Homeland Security did do as well.