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Pakistani-American Shahzad sentenced to life
Betwa Sharma
New York, Oct 5 (PTI) Pakistani-American terrorist
Faisal Shahzad, who pleaded guilty 100 times to plotting the
botched Times Square bombing this May, was Tuesday sentenced
to life on 10 counts of terrorism and weapons charges.
30-year-old Shahzad, son of a retired Pakistani Air
Force Vice Marshal, was given a mandatory life prison term
at the sentencing in a Manhattan court by a federal judge.
The home-made bomb he had packed into the back of a
vehicle sputtered on May one, injuring no one in Times Square
packed with tourists.
Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the
attack and the indictment also said Shahzad was trained in
Pakistan by affiliates of Tehrik-i-Taliban.
A defiant Shahzad who appeared in the court Tuesday
asked America "to brace itself as the war with Muslims have
just begun."
Making a statement in the court, the former budget
analyst said: "We don't expect your freedom... we already have
Shariah law and freedom."
"We Muslims don't abide by human made laws because
they are corrupt," a relaxed Shahzad said and alleged that his
family was threatened by Federal Bureau of Investigation when
he was being questioned here.
Calling himself a Muslim solider, a defiant Shahzad,
who also confessed to have got trained terrorists in
Pakistan's restive tribal region of north Waziristan, had in
June pleaded guilty 100 times in June to 10 terrorism and
weapons counts.
"I want to plead guilty, and I'm going to plead guilty
100 times over because until the hour the US pulls its forces
from Iraq and Afghanistan, and stops the drone strikes in
Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan, and stops the occupation of
Muslim lands, and stops killing the Muslims, and stops
reporting the Muslims to its government, we will be attacking
US and I plead guilty to that," Shahzad had said in a
statement in June.
Shahzad was apprehended at John F Kennedy airport
while trying to escape to Pakistan via Dubai on May 3 and has
been cooperating with the federal authorities by providing
them with information. (More) PTI
New York, Oct 5 (PTI) Pakistani-American terrorist
Faisal Shahzad, who pleaded guilty 100 times to plotting the
botched Times Square bombing this May, was Tuesday sentenced
to life on 10 counts of terrorism and weapons charges.
30-year-old Shahzad, son of a retired Pakistani Air
Force Vice Marshal, was given a mandatory life prison term
at the sentencing in a Manhattan court by a federal judge.
The home-made bomb he had packed into the back of a
vehicle sputtered on May one, injuring no one in Times Square
packed with tourists.
Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the
attack and the indictment also said Shahzad was trained in
Pakistan by affiliates of Tehrik-i-Taliban.
A defiant Shahzad who appeared in the court Tuesday
asked America "to brace itself as the war with Muslims have
just begun."
Making a statement in the court, the former budget
analyst said: "We don't expect your freedom... we already have
Shariah law and freedom."
"We Muslims don't abide by human made laws because
they are corrupt," a relaxed Shahzad said and alleged that his
family was threatened by Federal Bureau of Investigation when
he was being questioned here.
Calling himself a Muslim solider, a defiant Shahzad,
who also confessed to have got trained terrorists in
Pakistan's restive tribal region of north Waziristan, had in
June pleaded guilty 100 times in June to 10 terrorism and
weapons counts.
"I want to plead guilty, and I'm going to plead guilty
100 times over because until the hour the US pulls its forces
from Iraq and Afghanistan, and stops the drone strikes in
Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan, and stops the occupation of
Muslim lands, and stops killing the Muslims, and stops
reporting the Muslims to its government, we will be attacking
US and I plead guilty to that," Shahzad had said in a
statement in June.
Shahzad was apprehended at John F Kennedy airport
while trying to escape to Pakistan via Dubai on May 3 and has
been cooperating with the federal authorities by providing
them with information. (More) PTI
