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Life Sentence for Times Square Bomb Plotter

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Posted on Oct 5, 2010
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This artist’s rendering sketches Faisal Shahzad’s appearance in court for sentencing Tuesday in New York City.

The fate of Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to set off a bomb in Times Square on May 1, was decided in a Manhattan court Tuesday. The 31-year-old Pakistani-American, who pleaded guilty to 10 charges in June, was sentenced to life in prison, but he made a defiant appearance in a case that was clearly being leveraged by various parties to make a larger political point.  —KA

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Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement that the sentence was appropriate, calling Shahzad a “remorseless terrorist who betrayed his adopted country.”

Janice Fedarcyk, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York office, said the sentence “means Shahzad will never pose that threat again.”

New York Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said, “it’s only right that Shahzad forfeit his freedom for life for having tried to forfeit the lives of New Yorkers forever.”

U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, said the sentence sends a clear message.

“Let this be a warning to others who would attempt to attack us: You will be caught; you will be held to account; and justice will be brought down upon you.”

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By blogdog, October 6, 2010 at 1:35 pm Link to this comment

from http://arthurgoldwag.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/faisal-shahzad/

The would-be bomber seemed so hapless (he’d purchased the wrong kind
of fertilizer and M-88 fireworks that “wouldn’t damage a watermelon,”
according to the president of the company that manufactured them; he’d
neglected to open the valve on the propane tank and left identifying materials
in the car) that I found it hard to believe that he had been rigorously trained in
bomb making by the Pakistan Taliban–unless the Pakistan Taliban 1) Is as inept
as their recruit seems to be, or 2) For whatever reason (diversionary tactics–
perhaps they are trying to distract us from something much bigger on the
horizon? maybe they assumed he was a mole?) they wanted him to fail. (TPM
has some new speculation on the subject here; the best soundbite comes from
ex-ATF agent and explosive expert James Cavanaugh: “I believe he went
through some training. [But] I would venture to say, he’s not the valedictorian
of the bomb school”).

many scenarios are likely, try this one: he’s reported shived in a prison-yard melee by hot-headed, skin-head inmates, while being smuggled out to a UEA flat to join up with and spin out the rest of his days among family - the global war of terror has been refueled and the $5 mil. to hide him forever is returned 100-fold in a new wave of security contracts to defeat what he was supposed to have tried to do - nice work if you can get it

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By FRTothus, October 6, 2010 at 5:28 am Link to this comment

And how many years are his CIA, NSA, and FBI handlers
getting?  How many years do his US taxpayer-supported
torturers get?  How many death sentences among the
current and former US Administration are being handed
down for starting and pursuing this US war of Terror? 
That, after all, is what Nazi leaders were hung for.

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By PatrickHenry, October 6, 2010 at 3:33 am Link to this comment

Is that 7 years after good behavior?

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