Times Sq Suspect Hails From High-Status Pakistani Family

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

( Anyone think Faisal Shahzad went to Pakistan to train at a Christian extremist camp? Didn't think so.)

Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the failed car-bombing attempt of New York City's Time Square, comes from a well-to-do Pakistani family. His father is a retired vice marshal in Pakistan's air force and now one of that nation's top aviation officials.

It's a circumstance somewhat reminiscent of the alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab whose father was former chairman of First Bank of Nigeria.

And, to a degree, it's also a reminder of the background of al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's background, a scion of Saudi wealth who rejected it to wage a terror campaign against the West, particularly the U.S.

The Associated Press reports:

Shahzad is the son of a former top Pakistani air force officer and deputy director general of the civil aviation authority, according to Kifyat Ali, the cousin of Faisal Shahzad's father.

Ali told reporters outside a two-story home in an upmarket part of Peshawar, the main city in northwestern Pakistan, that the family had yet to be officially informed of Shahzad's arrest in the United States.

"This is a conspiracy so the (Americans) can bomb more Pashtuns," Ali said, referring to a major ethnic group in Peshawar and the nearby tribal areas of Pakistan and southwest Afghanistan.

"He was never linked to any political or religious party here."

He said Faisal often stayed in Peshawar when he came back fromthe United States.

His mother and father, retired Air Vice Marshall Baharul Haq, had left the house for an undisclosed location because of the media interest.

One man detained in Karachi was identified only as Tauseef and was a friend of Shahzad, according to one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Pakistani intelligence officers insist on anonymity as a matter of policy. Media reports described some of the others detained as relatives of Shahzad.

In Washington, Pakistani Embassy spokesman Nadeem Haider Kiani said early indications suggest the bomber was "a disturbed individual."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/05/times_sq_suspect_hails_from_hi.html

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( Anyone think Faisal Shahzad went to Pakistan to train at a Christian extremist camp? Didn't think so.)

Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the failed car-bombing attempt of New York City's Time Square, comes from a well-to-do Pakistani family. His father is a retired vice marshal in Pakistan's air force and now one of that nation's top aviation officials.

There's your answer, LS. Air Force in most countries is part of military (which has, in that failed-nation's case¹, been OFFICIAL misgovernment for half the country's history; for the other near-half, the "power behind throne" was always Army Chief)!²

It's a circumstance somewhat reminiscent of the alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab whose father was former chairman of First Bank of Nigeria.

And, to a degree, it's also a reminder of the background of al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's background, a scion of Saudi wealth who rejected it to wage a terror campaign against the West, particularly the U.S.

The Associated Press reports:

Shahzad is the son of a former top Pakistani air force officer and deputy director general of the civil aviation authority, according to Kifyat Ali, the cousin of Faisal Shahzad's father.

Ali told reporters outside a two-story home in an upmarket part of Peshawar, the main city in northwestern Pakistan, that the family had yet to be officially informed of Shahzad's arrest in the United States.

"This is a conspiracy so the (Americans) can bomb more Pashtuns," Ali said, referring to a major ethnic group in Peshawar and the nearby tribal areas of Pakistan and southwest Afghanistan.

"He was never linked to any political or religious party here."

He said Faisal often stayed in Peshawar when he came back fromthe United States.

His mother and father, retired Air Vice Marshall Baharul Haq, had left the house for an undisclosed location because of the media interest.

One man detained in Karachi was identified only as Tauseef and was a friend of Shahzad, according to one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Pakistani intelligence officers insist on anonymity as a matter of policy. Media reports described some of the others detained as relatives of Shahzad.

In Washington, Pakistani Embassy spokesman Nadeem Haider Kiani said early indications suggest the bomber was "a disturbed individual."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/05/times_sq_suspect_hails_from_hi.html

Notes:

1. What else could one call a nation that REFUSES to learn from its own history and allowed unremorseful war-criminals (specifically Zia and Aslam Beg) to occupy the real centre of power?
2. Since NLT 1958, Army Chiefs have been real rulers ("behind throne" examples include war-criminals Tikka Khan, Beg, Asif Nawaz, Jehangir Karamat and current Ashfaq Kiani; ON-throne Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Zia, Musharraf)