On Tuesday Faisal Shahzad was arrested and charged with being the maker of the car bomb found in Times Square. There were five federal charges against him. He is thirty years old and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. He still has extensive connections with his homeland of Pakistan, and had been making calls to there up until three days before the bomb. Attorney General Eric Holder said that"It is clear that this was a terrorist plot". He claimed that he went to Pakistan to visit family for five months, but later admitted to training with the Taliban. He also admitted, after more questioning, that he drove the vehicle into Times Square and attempted to detonate the bomb. The bomb did not detonate because the materials used were nonexplosive.
Opinion: I think that he has all the evidence against him and he should be charged immediately, because they found he had bought the car, he confessed to working with the Taliban and driving the car to Times Square, and attempting to detonate it. I also think it is a little ridiculous that he didn't use the correct kind of fertilizer to ensure it is explosive. I am sure he thought that much of the evidence linking the bomb and car to him would be destroyed in the blast. This had the potential to be big headline news, surely killing several and hurting many others. They should crack down on security in high-traffic and toursit-y places to make sure another 9/11 incident does not happen again.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/04/new.york.car.bomb/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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