An Islamic terrorist named Faisal Shahzad is the Time Square bomber according to media reports. He is Muslim of Pakistani heritage with dual citizenship in the United States, recently naturalized as a U.S. citizen under the Obama administration’s lenient open door policy. We have been unable to confirm earlier reports of his voter registration status as a Democrat.
Shahzad Faisal as identified by NBC News, or Faisal Shahzad as identified by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, is a U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin. He was arrested at JFK airport in New York trying to flee the country back to Pakistan via a connector flight to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on flight UAE 202. He was taken off the airplane sitting on the runway, promptly read his Miranda rights, and presumably went silent.
Obama’s policy of treating enemy combatants as common criminals has been much criticized outside of liberal intelligentsia. At least they got their man, but the free lawyers that us taxpayers are giving him will assure very little intelligence is gathered in this case.
The Obama Justice department has caused furor within law enforcement circles for being soft on terror. The method of apprehending this terrorist will simply increase the volume and scrutiny. The public asks why are terrorists getting arrested for criminal prosecution rather than detained and shipped to Guantanamo for military tribunals. Despite bad PR generated by liberal college professors and their allies, detaining terrorists in Guantanamo was one of the good ideas by the Bush Administration for U.S. security interests.
Faisal Shahzad was naturalized April 17th 2009, one of the early beneficiary of Obama’s liberal immigration policy that threw open the borders to treat all countries of origin alike. Two months later he was back in Pakistan, presumably meeting and plotting with terrorist allies there.
The slow motion war by Islamic fundamentalists marches on, unrecognized by the American political establishment, either through gross incompetence or pacification of radical voting groups for political expediency. Our leaders seem deaf and dumb to the threat against American interests and freedom.
Faisal Shahzad is a typical example if the charges are true, one of many who have attempted to cause terror among the populace, by lighting shoe bombs, underwear bombs, or blowing up cars in crowded urban centers. The current administration seems largely indifferent to the threat.
Faisal Shahzad had apparently been placed on the do-not-fly list earlier in the day, so a match was made against his passport when he tried to board an international airplane flight. This is a good win for the department of homeland security. We’ll leave the incompetence at preventing the attack for others to analyze.
Leads were easy in this case. A naive attempt was made to cover up the vehicle identification number on the Nissan Pathfinder loaded with explosives, by removing it from the inside door panel, but the number was left on the engine block. In addition, the purchase was made via CraigsList which left an electronic trail.
This is clearly a developing story for which more information will be forthcoming. We are still researching to understand if Faisal Shahzad was an Obama campaign donor. The Muslim community in the U.S. overwhelmingly supported the president’s 2008 election run. Stay tuned.









May 3rd, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Your headline is appalling.
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:38 pm
McCain your chum in the water stuff is usually entertaining, but not here. Quite frankly, in this case, it borders on treason.
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Your abject, willful ignorance is showing.
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Appalling, but is it true?
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:01 pm
HAH-HAH-HAH! Wouldn’t that be funny if this guy did contribute to Obama?
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:01 pm
I’m suprised it wasn’t another teabagger, christo-facist wingnut like the guy who flew his Censna into the IRS building in Texas. There are too many terrorists to keep track of these days. Unfortunately, Republicans are only interested in capturing the one’s that aren’t white.
[ed. -- Andrew Joseph Stack, the airplane pilot in Texas referred to in this comment, was also a registered Democrat.]
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Kokies you are missing the point. Truth or lack thereof is not relevant. It’s all about generating traffic for some of the folks on this site. Which I’m usually OK with but I think a line was crossed in this instance.
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Earlier this evening, Faisal Shahzad was arrested in connection with the attempted car bombing in New York on Saturday. Mr. Shahzad, an American citizen, was taken into custody at JFK Airport in New York as he attempted to board a flight to Dubai.
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Next thing ya know the morons from the Left will say the guy used leftover propane and fireworks from when Cheney and Karl Rove blew up levies in New Orleans.
Can’t have one way. Fair is fair. Just ask Rev. Wright.
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:13 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that this guy is one of the low IQ toothless Teabagger rednecks (the Republican base nuts).
The Wingnuttters are the ones who HAVE been advocating violence recently. It makes perfect sense.
The murdered aboration doctor, the Holocaust shooter, the guy who killed a few Pittsburgh cops because he thought Obama was coming for his guns, the guy who flew his plane into the IRS building and was praised by a few Republican politicians. All of the them are right wing domestic terrorists
And these incidents aren’t ancient history, they all happened within the last year in a half!
May 4th, 2010 at 12:05 am
@former Republican…actually CBS did a poll and found that the majority of Tea Party people are smarter than the average U.S. population, and also middle and upper middle class.
May 4th, 2010 at 12:22 am
Wow, lots of really stupid people here. I’m amazed at the sheer idiocy of you Obamaites.
You are all so disappointed aren’t you? You expected it to be an American conservative. Well Surprise!!!!!!!!!!
Well I hope you enjoy when they come to a city or town near you…Make sure you staple your hats to your heads. CRETENS.
May 4th, 2010 at 12:37 am
You are so funny. Thought about joining SNL?
May 4th, 2010 at 12:59 am
The Libero-f*scists are screaming with joy at the mention of “White guy” as a suspect. Now, they are terribly disappointed but still they are out there defending
May 4th, 2010 at 1:38 am
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nnSfLenKAu4J:goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-400288/Deeds.html+%22Faisal+Shahzad%22&cd=369&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
A Faisal Shahzad sold a property in Norwalk Connecticut recently (last week?) for $260,000. I cannot verify that it is the same Shahzad.
May 4th, 2010 at 1:42 am
“The Wingnuttters are the ones who HAVE been advocating violence recently. It makes perfect sense.”
Compare the behavior of the Tea Partiers with the pro illegal immigration rallies last weekend.
May 4th, 2010 at 2:16 am
@ Kokies,
If the Teabagger droolers get asked questions about their income and education, and they’re only getting by because of Social Security and they barely graduated from High School, do you really think they’re going to tell a pollster that?
No, they’re going to LIE. “What’s the biggest number you have for income? Yeah sure, that’s what I made last year. And yeah, I graduated college, in fact, I’ve got an MBA and a PhD.”
These are the same mouth-breathers who watch Faux News – lying is all they know how to do.
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http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/3983339.html#cutid1
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May 4th, 2010 at 2:24 am
actually he was neither al qaeda nor a tea party person
he was actually a eco-terrorist apparently angry at obama for not doing anything to stop the spread of oil in the gulf and causing a huge ecological disaster
May 4th, 2010 at 2:43 am
@ lisab,
And what did you want Obama to do to stop the oil spill? BP said they had it under control, and we know all know how things work in Wingnut Land – Big Oil Rules The World! Right?
This wasn’t like Katrina where the Bushco Republicans had a full week to prepare for it and they still blew it.
This just proves that the Right Wing Echo Chamber operates on the IQ level of a five year old.
May 4th, 2010 at 4:16 am
[...] the United States, a registered Democrat in the state of Connecticut who may be an Obama donor. link I am shocked at the violence coming from the left these days. First a Tea Party merchant get beat [...]
May 4th, 2010 at 5:38 am
Wow. In the first paragraph alone you will find everything that makes for good gossip.
I don’t suppose it would be wiser and more prudent to actually wait and see how this story unfolds before posting articles like this. Hmm.
Time will tell.
Nice SEO techniques, though. You must have gone to college to learn that.
May 4th, 2010 at 6:13 am
Didn’t Bloomberg say the would-be bomber was obviously a ‘white guy’ tea partier who was mad about the health care bill? I guess he was wrong on that one ….
May 4th, 2010 at 6:23 am
@Beth,
Yes, I believe it was a white TEA Partier who was mentally ill and upset about the Health Care Bill being passed.
May 4th, 2010 at 6:24 am
@Beth,
I mean, according to Bloomberg! (I realized after I typed that that it came out kinda wrong!)
May 4th, 2010 at 6:27 am
Wow. All I can say to our left-wing friends on this thread is that it is truly impressive how they can cast aspersions at other’s intelligence while making so many errors in both fact and logic. It takes a lot of practice to pack that much ignorance and stupidity into so few words. I can’t even type the words “Big Oil” without feeling foolish.
Just to help them catch up on current events I suggest they Google the word “jihad”. I also suggest they go back and reappraise the other violent incidents mentioned in this thread.
Violence is the first resort of the left. ALL left-wing policy prescriptions are based on using force to separate people from what belongs to them and to control them in whatever fashion is in vogue at the moment. Once one is committed to using force to get what they want in the public arena it is but a short step to doing the same thing in the private arena.
The thing that so scares the left about the Tea Partiers is that they are good and decent people and they have had enough. They are the people who make the country work despite whatever BS Washington dishes out. Hippies, union thugs and race baiters can march and it only has political consequences because they are the children in our society who always throw fits to get what they want. The entire lot of them could disappear tomorrow and the economy would not miss a beat. But when the small businessmen and middles class march the consequences are existential. The economy cannot function without their efforts. They are the parents and the responsible adults in our society and they are about to cut off the government’s allowance for misbehavior.