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Failed Times Square Bomber Faces Sentencing - Page 2 - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 23rd Feb, 2016 - 11:32am
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Car Bomb New York City - Times Square - Pakistan - US Citizen - TerroristPost Date: 21st Jun, 2010 - 9:19pm / Post ID: #
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Pleads Guilty
NEW YORK (AP) - Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. Citizen, has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge accusing him of plotting the failed Times Square car bombing. Shahzad began by pleading guilty to attempted use of weapons of mass destruction, but indicated he would plead guilty to all 10 charges against him. He told the judge he wanted to "Plead guilty and 100 times more." He also warned that unless theyou.S. Leaves Muslim lands, "We will be attackingyou.S." Shahzad is accused in a plot that fizzled when a gasoline-and-propane bomb failed to ignite in an SUV parked near a Broadway theater May 1. Ref. CNN.
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Failed Times Square Bomber Faces Sentencing
Original Post Date: 5th Oct, 2010 - 12:41pm
What do you think it should be the sentence for this criminal?
QUOTE NEW YORK (Oct. 5) -- The scene in a remote spot in Pennsylvania was exactly what authorities say failed bomber Faisal Shahzad had wanted on a busy evening in Times Square on May 1. An improvised car bomb - a 1993 Pathfinder fitted with 250 pounds of ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel, three 25-pound propane tanks and two five-gallon gasoline canisters - blew up with a force that ripped the sport utility vehicle in half. Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty in June to 10 terrorism and weapons counts. The explosion also caused a giant fireball that overturned and shredded four other cars parked nearby in an open field, obliterated about a dozen dummies posed as pedestrians and shot fiery debris hundreds of feet in all directions. A dramatic videotape of the FBI-staged test blast in June has become a key piece of evidence against Shahzad, who faces a mandatory life prison term at his sentencing Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. Technicians studied Shahzad's design before using it to build a working model they say demonstrated his deadly intent… Source 8v
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