Yesterday Fox News reported that federal officials had identified a person of interest and last night that person, Faisal Shahzad of Shelton, Conn, was arrested at JFK attempting to flee the country. Shahzad is a naturalized citizen trained in Pakistan for 4 months.
Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, gave his insight, “it was clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans.” Uh, no sh*t Sherlock. What the h*ll else do you think this was- an early New Year’s celebration in Times Square?
We can anticipate how this will play out. The media will do its very best to limit the words, “terrorist”, “muslim”, or “Islamic”. The Obama administration will immediately read this terrorist his Miranda Rights, provide him with a taxpayer attorney, and will reinterate that Islam is a religion of peace. Obama will point the quick response of citizens and officials in responding… while ignoring mention of how in the h*ll this guy was able to drive into New York with a bomb that fortunately failed to detonate.
From the Washington Post:
A 30-year-old American immigrant from Pakistan was taken off a plane bound for Dubai late Monday at John F. Kennedy International Airport and arrested in connection with a failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced.
Authorities said Faisal Shahzad of Shelton, Conn., had paid cash for a Nissan Pathfinder that was found packed with explosives Saturday night on a tourist-crowded block in Midtown Manhattan. The vehicle was set ablaze but failed to detonate.
Officials located Shahzad after a sweeping two-day investigation that yielded what senior Obama administration officials described as a flood of international and domestic clues suggesting a plot involving more than one person.
A U.S. official said tracing the origin of the Pathfinder was a crucial part of the investigation. Shahzad bought the vehicle through an Internet listing. He gave the seller a fake name, but an e-mail from the transaction included a phone number that was from a disposable cellphone. Extrapolating from telephone records, authorities found Shahzad and confirmed his identity with the seller, the official said.
Shahzad was apprehended aboard Emirates Flight 202. His final destination was Pakistan, a U.S. official said. Shahzad been in Pakistan for several months in 2009, returning in February 2010, the official said.
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