Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American arrested in connection with the failed Times Square car bomb attack, has admitted he had attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan. Disclosing this, the Federal Bureau of Investigation also said that 30 year old Shahzad confessed he had attempted to detonate a bomb at Times Square. Shahzad told the FBI that he had also received bomb-making training at the terror camp in Waziristan, a lawless tribal region where the Pakistani Taliban operates with near impunity. The training raised the possibility of a coordinated international plot for an attack.<br/>In a 10-page complaint filed yesterday before the Court of Judge Nathaniel Fox, Southern District of New York, the FBI alleged Shahzad travelled from Connecticut to New York on a sports-utility vehicle (SUV) that was laden with a bomb. Shahzad was arrested from the New York's John F Kennedy Airport on Monday night when he was trying to flee the country.<br/>US Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters in New York that Shahzad was co-operating with the federal Investigating agencies and was providing useful information.<br/>Pakistan authorities, in the meantime have detained seven men from different parts of the country for their alleged links with Faisal Shahzad. A top police official in Punjab province said, the suspects have been taken into custody in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Karachi and shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation. He did not confirm whether the detained suspects had links to the Taliban or al-Qaeda. Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has pledged to cooperate fully with the US in the investigation. <br/>
News On AIR | May 5, 2010 1:30 PM
Faisal Shahzad admits attending training camp in Pakistan