Shahzad NOT a "lone wolf", contacted Mehsud, Awlaki and ultra-ultra-goonda Mumbai-attack planner

[Saddle Bronc 124]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/faisal-shahzad-contact-awlaki-taliban-mumbai-massacre-mastermind/story?id=10575061

Sources: Shahzad Had Contact With Awlaki, Taliban Chief, and Mumbai Massacre Mastermind

Faisal Shahzad Said To Have Linked Up With Taliban Through Internet, But Already High-Placed Contacts

By RICHARD ESPOSITO, CHRIS VLASTO and CHRIS CUOMO

May 6, 2010

Accused Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad linked up with the Pakistani Taliban through the internet, ABC News has been told by law enforcement and intelligence sources close to the investigation. Once the Taliban identified him as more valuable in the U.S. than in Pakistan, they trained him to return to execute his bomb attack.

But according to these sources, Shahzad also had a web of jihadist contacts that included big names tied to terror attacks in the U.S. and abroad, including the figure who has emerged as a central figure in many recent domestic terror attempts - radical American-born Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki.

Besides Awlaki, sources say Shahzad was also linked to a key figure in the Pakistani Taliban, its Emir Beitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a drone missile strike in 2009. The Mehsuds had been family friends of Shahzad, who is the son of a former high-ranking Pakistani military officer.

Sources told ABC News that Shahzad was childhood friends with one of the alleged masterminds of the Mumbai massacre of 2008, in which more than 170 people died.

which of the ultra-ultra-goondas (Daoud Gilani¹ or Hafiz Saeed² or Zaki Lakhvi³) not specified--but my suspicion is on Gilani aka "David Headley".

Shahzad is also said to be linked to a man named Muhammed Rehan, whom Pakistani authorities reportedly have in custody. Sources said Rehan helped Shahzad travel to Peshawar and then to Waziristan and made introductions to the Taliban.

According to a person briefed on the FBI interrogation, Shahzad has told federal agents that he was angry at the CIA missile strikes carried out in Pakistan and suffered a personal crisis in his life. He has reportedly said he carried out the attempted bombing because he was under duress and that he feared for his family's safety if he didn't fulfill the mission.

Shahzad has admitted to receiving bomb-making training and to loading a car with explosives and driving it into Times Square, say U.S. authorities, and is providing valuable information that is helping officials round up possible accomplices.

Failed Times Square Car Bomb Attempt

Seven men have been arrested in Pakistan in connection with the failed car bombing, including two in Karachi and five in Punjab Province. Shahzad's faither-in-law has also been detained, and Shahzad's father, wife and children may be in protective custody.

Shahzad, whose father was a high-ranking officer in the Pakistani Air Force, moved to the United States in 1998. Married with two daughters, he worked as a financial analyst and lived in Connecticut.

In 2009, Shahzad's life began unraveling. He had been working as a junior financial analyst in the Stamford, Connecticut office of the Affinion Group, an international marketing firm, But in May he left his job, abandoned his $200,000 home to foreclosure and returned to Pakistan.

Federal officials alleged that while in Pakistan he learned bomb-making with the Taliban and received money for his plot.

Shahzad returned to the U.S. in February 2010.

After the attempted Times Square bombing, Shahzad, who had been the subject of a huge manhunt, almost made it out of the country on a Emirates flight to Dubai, with a planned connection onward to Pakistan, according to officials.

Authorities said that despite the manhunt, his passport had not been flagged and he was able to buy a ticket with cash and clear airport security.

Customs and Border Protection agents working at the super-secret National Targeting Center discovered that Shahzad, who was by this point was on a no-fly list, had purchased a ticket and was on a flight manifest for a plane headed to Dubai, federal officials told ABC News. The agents contacted their CBP counterparts at JFK who then rushed to the plane and alerted the crew to their high-priority passenger.

The crew paged Shahzad via the plane's intercom to come to the front of the plane. Remarkably, Shahzad calmly complied, got up, retrieved his bag and ambled to the front of the plane. He was detained just outside the plane's doors.

CBP agents took Shahzad to a holding cell where the suspected terrorist informed them he had a car in an airport parking lot with a gun inside. Authorities surrounded the car, called in bomb sniffing dogs and cleared the scene.

1. DC-born son of erstwhile Pakistani diplomat (now known to be related to current Pakistani figurehead-PM) and American-born wife; awaiting sentencing in Chicago after guilty-plea to involvement in Mumbai plot (voice found off trace-recordings from Kasab's cell)
2. leader of LeT (in voice contact with Kasab and gangmembers throughout the crime, specifically telling him and his gangmembers to maximise grotesqueness)
3. another senior LeT figure (like Saeed, in voice contact with Kasab and gang)

Edited May 7, 2010 by Saddle Bronc

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goonda

why do you insist on using ethnic words in thread titles on a forum where the vast majority don't know ####### you're talking about?

[Ban Hammer 14,364]

goonda

why do you insist on using ethnic words in thread titles on a forum where the vast majority don't know ####### you're talking about?

i think he works for nsa, he's always talking in code.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

goonda

why do you insist on using ethnic words in thread titles on a forum where the vast majority don't know ####### you're talking about?

The fact that the word "goonda" resembles the common word "goon" makes it understandable enough!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

The fact that the word "goonda" resembles the common word "goon" makes it understandable enough!

No...... it doesn't

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I thought Shazam was just angry about his house being forclosed on. I'm confused????!!!??!!!!

[Darnell 8,479]

Ya - I say give it another week of FBI interregations, and he'll reveal more linkages.

Pakistani Taliban - there's an oxymoronic thing in there, somewhere.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Ya - I say give it another week of FBI interregations, and he'll reveal more linkages.

Pakistani Taliban - there's an oxymoronic thing in there, somewhere.

NOT oxymoron at all; Taliban in-sum-total were created by ISI during the reign-of-terror of 1971-war-criminal dictator Zia ul-Haq (specifically on his orders), and lots of NWFP/FATA youths/men encouraged to join it (a "two birds with one stone" approach, as it would take away potential recruits from the off-and-on active Pashtunistan movement).

[mawilson 2,133]

goonda

why do you insist on using ethnic words in thread titles on a forum where the vast majority don't know ####### you're talking about?

Also, Awlaki sounds like a Greek dish of kebabs.

[Heracles 417]

Also, Awlaki sounds like a Greek dish of kebabs.

[almaty 19]

NOT oxymoron at all; Taliban in-sum-total were created by ISI during the reign-of-terror of 1971-war-criminal dictator Zia ul-Haq (specifically on his orders), and lots of NWFP/FATA youths/men encouraged to join it (a "two birds with one stone" approach, as it would take away potential recruits from the off-and-on active Pashtunistan movement).

you tell the them brother sriniv

[Darnell 8,479]

NOT oxymoron at all; Taliban in-sum-total were created by ISI during the reign-of-terror of 1971-war-criminal dictator Zia ul-Haq (specifically on his orders), and lots of NWFP/FATA youths/men encouraged to join it (a "two birds with one stone" approach, as it would take away potential recruits from the off-and-on active Pashtunistan movement).

Oh - I'm not discounting the Pakistani Taliban, at all -

Where the 'oxymoronic' bit comes in - is that Pakistan has ties to USA, and some 'pledge' to wipe out the Pakistani Taliban without US Intervention/Occupation. My apologies if I wasn't understood

[PhiLandShiR 18]

I thought Shazam was just angry about his house being forclosed on. I'm confused????!!!??!!!!

He abandoned the house that is why it was foreclosed...

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I thought Shazam was just angry about his house being forclosed on. I'm confused????!!!??!!!!

(unless he allowed it to be foreclosed in order to stoke his anger--a possibility), since he VOLUNTARILY abandoned that home and stopped paying the mortgage (and then also voluntarily quit his job to go to Peshawar for 5 months). A good question is how much his USC (most-likely an earlier-naturalised Pakistani, given the whole scenario) wife supported (or even initialised) these actions.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

(unless he allowed it to be foreclosed in order to stoke his anger--a possibility), since he VOLUNTARILY abandoned that home and stopped paying the mortgage (and then also voluntarily quit his job to go to Peshawar for 5 months). A good question is how much his USC (most-likely an earlier-naturalised Pakistani, given the whole scenario) wife supported (or even initialised) these actions.

wait a minute...... you mean he no longer need to keep up the charade of a normal life? the plot thickens.