'Pakistan Taliban' behind Times Square bomb plot

[Martin N]

Which doesnt surprise me considering the isi was alleged to be behind funding the 9/11 terrorists, when are we going to stop messing around in afghanistan/iraq and divert into pakistan ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8670973.stm

Evidence left in the bomb-laden car led detectives to Faisal Shahzad

The US has evidence the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square, Attorney General Eric Holder says.
Mr Holder said the militants helped to facilitate the plot, and "probably helped finance it".
US officials had previously rejected claims by the group that it was behind the 1 May plot.
A Pakistani-born US citizen has been charged with the attempted bombing in New York's tourist quarter a week ago.
Faisal Shazhad, 30, from Bridgeport, Connecticut, has co-operated with investigators, and admits receiving bomb-making training in the Pakistani region of Waziristan, prosecutors have said.
"We've now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack," Mr Holder said on ABC television's Sunday current affairs talk show This Week.
"We know that they helped facilitate it. We know that they probably helped finance it, and that [Shahzad] was working at their direction."
Mr Holder said there was nothing to suggest the government of Pakistan was aware of the plot.
He also said the Obama administration was satisfied for now with the level of co-operation it was receiving from Islamabad into the investigation of the attempted bombing.
FAISAL SHAHZAD

Aged 30
Naturalised US citizen born in Pakistan
Resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut
Married - wife and two young children believed to be in Karachi
Awarded a master's in business administration from University of Bridgeport in 2005
Visited Pakistan at least eight times in recent years, according to local officials



Profile: Faisal Shahzad
Trail leading to bomb bid
Court papers reveal details
Troubled Waziristan

His words were echoed by White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, who told CNN: "It looks like he was working on behalf of the TTP, the Pakistani Taliban. This group is closely allied with al-Qaeda. This is something that we're taking very seriously."
If proved true, this would be the first time the Pakistani Taliban has been linked to a terror plot in the United States itself, the BBC's Madeleine Morris in Washington reports.
The bomb was discovered last Saturday evening in Times Square, which was busy with tourists and theatregoers at the time.
Bomb disposal experts were called in after a street-vendor noticed smoke coming from a Nissan Pathfinder, which had been left with its engine running and hazard lights flashing.
In the hours that followed, a claim of responsibility by the Pakistani Taliban was dismissed by the New York police. The city's Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, said there was no evidence the attempted bombing was the work of al-Qaeda or any other big terrorist group.
However, the unexploded bomb left crucial evidence intact that detectives used to trace Mr Shahzad.
He was arrested two days after the failed bomb attempt, trying to board a flight to Dubai from New York's JFK airport.

[Davius]

I'm shocked!

[motiv-8]

when are we going to stop messing around in afghanistan/iraq and divert into pakistan ?

Hm? We already operate drones trikes in Pakistan's western provinces constantly -- more last year and with more results any other year. Even this however hasn't produced uniformly positive results. Surely you aren't suggested that we invade yet another Muslim country when the majority of terrorist recruits being trained and exported from this region are motivated at least in part by, well, American invasion of Muslim countries?

Most analysts are quick to point out that Pakistan is a problem, but not the problem.

[Kjertesvein]

"We've now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack," Mr Holder said on ABC television's Sunday current affairs talk show This Week.

His words were echoed by White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, who told CNN: "It looks like he was working on behalf of the TTP, the Pakistani Taliban. This group is closely allied with al-Qaeda. This is something that we're taking very seriously."

I find it very hard to belive what a US statsman over international purposes. Since they will allways interlock with their other agencys and their motive, and then when we get slapped with "...develops evidence..." or "it looks like....". When is the court day for this man? Can I see the evidence? Or are they in some box in Gitmo with guy in a cage and head in a ing torturechamber by now?