Faisal Shahzad Sentenced to Life in Prison

Shahzad Gets Life for Times Square Bombing Attempt
The defendant came to Federal District Court in Manhattan on Tuesday ready to ladle out several minutes of anti-American justification for his act of Terrorism in Times Square. But the judge, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, best known of late for presiding over Martha Stewart’s trial, came ready, too. She repeatedly interrupted the defendant, Faisal Shahzad, to spar with him over his interpretation of the Koran, his invocation of a Muslim warrior in the Crusades and, above all, the relevance of...

Rep. Pete King slammed after saying Shahzad conviction had 'element of luck'
The life sentence handed out to the failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad is firing up the argument over whether the justice system and the courts in New York can handle high-profile Terrorism prosecutions. Administration, Law Enforcement and some New York members of Congress say the answer is a resounding yes, maybe even if the defendant is someone like terror mastermind Khaild Sheikh Mohammed. Shahzad was arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to life, all within the...

First the Times Sq. Bomber, then KSM?
The life sentence handed out to the failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad is firing up the argument over whether the Justice system — and the courts in New York — can handle high-profile Terrorism prosecutions. Administration, Law Enforcement and some New York members of Congress say the answer is a resounding yes, maybe even if the defendant is someone like terror mastermind Khaild Sheikh Mohammed. Shahzad was arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to life, all within the ...

Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad sentenced to life in federal prison
Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was sentenced this morning to Life behind bars for trying to set-off a parked car full of explosives. A defiant Shahzad said "Allahu Akbar" -- Arabic for "God is great" -- after the judge sentenced him to the mandatory Life Imprisonment. "Brace yourself because the war with the Muslims has only just begun," he told the judge before he was sentenced during the 30-minute hearing. "The defeat of the US is imminent and will happen in the near future."...

TIME SQUARE BOMBER REALLY TAKES HIS ISLAM SERIOUSLY.......
He'd die a thousand Times for his allah, so why should he have a problem with lying while taking his oath? This shows the depth of ignorance of the judge doing the sentencing: The Judge: "I do hope you spend time in Prison thinking about whether the Koran gives you the right to kill innocent people." “Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.” Koran 2:191 “Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.” Koran 9:123 “When opportunity arises, kill the infi...

Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad Sentenced To Life
Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to detonate a Car Bomb in New York's Times Square on a crowded Saturday night, was sentenced to life in federal Prison without Parole today. '); } Before she pronounced sentence, Judge Miriam Cedarbaum said, "Mr. Shahzad, I think you should get up." Shahzad, wearing a white prayer cap, said "Allahu Akbar" after hearing the sentence, and said he would "sacrifice a thousand lives for Allah." "War with Muslims has just begun," said Shahzad, who...

Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad gets life in prison
He went on to explain how Muslims would never accept Western Forces in their countries fighting on a "pretext for your Democracy and freedom." The last nine years of war, he said, have achieved nothing except to awaken Muslims to defend their "religion, people, honor and land." The son of a retired Pakistani Air Force marshal, Shahzad grew up mostly in a Secular, upper-middle-class neighborhood in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city. He came to the United States in 1998 as an undergraduate Student,...

Life sentence for Faisal Shahzad, could join shoe bomber in Colorado
The judge sent Faisal Shahzad to Prison for the rest of his life. His crime attempting to bomb Times Square was serious, and he was defiant in court appearances.

Faisal Shahzad, still defiant, handed life sentence
Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani immigrant who attempted to detonate a Car Bomb in Times Square on May 1, showed no remorse for his actions as Federal Judge a sentenced him to life in Prison.

Lawfare › Shahzad Proves Nothing But It Wasn’t Luck
“We are pleased that this Terrorist has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in Prison, after providing substantial intelligence to our interrogators, and a speedy Civilian Trial,” White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said. “We tried the case in a Civilian court, we were able to use everything that he said and everything that we uncovered for intelligence collection purposes. His Trial served no Propaganda purpose for al Qaeda, and only underscored the strength of our jus...

Yes, the Criminal Justice System Works for Terrorism Cases
To say, as many Liberals and the administration are now saying, that Shahzad proves that the Criminal Justice system works in high-stakes Counterterrorism crises is very silly. It proves at most that the Criminal Justice system sometimes works in such cases, a point that nobody serious doubts . The government has three big interests when it makes an arrest in a crisis setting like this one. It wants short-term intelligence. It wants to incapacitate an extremely dangerous person, and it wants to ...

Does Shahzad Case Show Civilian Courts Can Handle Terror Cases?
By Ashby Jones The man behind the plot to blow a large hold through much of Times Square, Faisal Shahzad, on Tuesday was sentenced to life in Prison. Earlier, Shahzad had pleaded guilty to masterminding the plot — and did so rather unapologetically. On Tuesday, he made more incendiary comments in open court, telling Manhattan Federal Judge Miriam Cedarbaum that “the war with Muslims has just begun,” and that the defeat of the U.S. is “imminent and will happen in the near...

Times Square Car Bomber Sentenced to Life in Prison
CNN reports that Faisal Shahzad has been sentenced to life in Prison for his involvement in the Times Square car bombing. The 31-year-old was sentenced by a Manhattan Judge on Tuesday. The Pakistani-American told the court, "brace yourself, the war with Muslims has just begun." He also said, The defeat of the U.S. is imminent, inshallah. Shahzad continued that he those who embrace Islam are simply defending their people and their land. He said if that makes them Terrorists then we will...

When the system works as it should
WHEN THE SYSTEM WORKS AS IT SHOULD.... Five months ago, Faisal Shahzad tried and failed to set off a Car Bomb in Times Square. He was quickly identified and apprehended, initiating a process in which the Obama Administration played by the rules. Once Shahzad was taken into Custody, the Justice Department invoked a Public Safety exception to delay making him aware of his Rights. The suspect was then interrogated by the FBI's High Value Interrogation Group, producing useful intelligence. At that...

Failed US bomber gets life in jail
Send Feedback Shahzad said his Times Square bombing attempt was aimed at avening 'US aggression in Muslim countries' [AFP] Faisal Shahzad, the man convicted of attempting a car-bomb attack in New York's Times Square, has been sentenced to life in Prison. He received several mandatory life sentences in a Manhattan Federal Court on Tuesday. The  Pakistan-born US Citizen had been convicted on 10 charges including counts of Terrorism and attempting to use a "weapon of...

Times Square Bomber Gets Life In Prison
Calm, but clearly angry, and standing the whole time, Shahzad spent nearly an hour giving the judge a narrative of his failed bombing attempt, and how he changed from a financial analyst with an MBA to a would-be bomber and what he called "part of the answer" to the U.S. killing of Muslims. He also confirmed that he had placed the bomb in Times Square at its busiest in order to do the maximum damage. Shahzad admitted driving a Nissan Pathfinder into Midtown Manhattan on Saturday evening, May 1,...

Life Sentence for Times Square Bomb Plotter
This artist’s rendering sketches Faisal Shahzad’s appearance in court for sentencing Tuesday in New York City. The fate of Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to set off a Bomb in Times Square on May 1, was decided in a Manhattan court Tuesday. The 31-year-old Pakistani-American, who pleaded guilty to 10 charges in June, was sentenced to life in Prison, but he made a defiant appearance in a case that was clearly being leveraged by various parties to make a larger political point.  ...

Times Square Bomber Sentenced to Life
Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square Bomber, was sentenced in a Manhattan Court to life in Prison without Parole. From the AP story : A Federal Judge gave Faisal Shahzad (FY’-sul shah-ZAHD’) a mandatory life Prison term at his sentencing Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court. The bomb he had packed into the back of an SUV sputtered, injuring no one in a Times Square packed with tourists. Calling himself a Muslim solider, a defiant Shahzad pleaded guilty in June to 10 Terrorism and...

Cambodia and Islamism: Courting the Cham
New theatre of terror? IN THE so-called War on Terror, Cambodia is a sleepy outpost on a tense South-East Asian front that stretches from the Philippines to Thailand. Western governments are, however, worried that trouble may be brewing in this backwater. Security experts fret about the possible perversion of a cultural revival by Cambodia’s Muslims, who mostly belong to the 400,000-strong Cham minority. In the genocidal 1970s the Khmer Rouge executed most leaders of the Cham and tried to...

‘Those who cure you will kill you’
An Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq boasted before last week’s failed bombings in London and Glasgow that his group was planning to Attack British targets and that “those who cure you will kill you”, The Times has learnt. The warning was delivered to Canon Andrew White, a senior British cleric working in Baghdad, and could be highly significant as the eight Muslims arrested in the wake of the failed plot are all members of the medical profession. Canon White told The Times that...

Faisal Shahzad gets life term for attempted Times Square bombing
Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani immigrant who admitted he'd hoped to kill as many as 40 people by detonating a Car Bomb in Times Square in May, was sentenced on Tuesday to life in Prison. U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum handed down the mandatory sentence of life in Prison without Parole. Shahzad, 31, appeared proud but defiant in court and unapologetic for trying to kill as many Americans as he could. He wore dark blue Prison garb with a white knit cap on his head. His hair had grown...

Failed NYC Bomber Shahzad Gets Life in Prison
A Pakistani immigrant who tried to set off a Car Bomb in Times Square was sentenced Tuesday to life in Prison by a judge who said she hopes he spends time behind bars thinking "carefully about whether the Quran wants you to kill lots of people." A defiant Faisal Shahzad smirked as he was given a mandatory life term that, under federal sentencing rules, will keep him behind bars until he dies. "If I'm given 1,000 lives I will sacrifice them all for the life of Allah," he said at the start of a...

Peter King's Odd Definition of "Luck" in Terrorist Prosecution
Following would-be Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad receiving a sentence of Life Imprisonment, Ben Smith asked Rep. Peter King, an opponent of using civilian trials to prosecute Terror Suspects, what he thought: "The case worked out well. I had questions about it. There was a bit of luck involved here," he said. "He was advised of his rights and kept talking. If he had not, I don’t know what would have happened." "If he was more sophisticated or more trained, or if he had not talked ther...

Pentagon to phase in new security program at bases; Would replace canceled TALON database
Washington — Nearly a year after a Shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon is taking new steps to beef up security and Surveillance programs at its bases, and will join an FBI intelligence-sharing program aimed at identifying future terror threats, U.S. officials said. The new partnership with the FBI's eGuardian program comes two years after the Pentagon shut down a Controversial anti-terror database that collected reports of Suspicious Activity near Military installations. ...

Two Muslim Clerics Arrested in Nazareth
Our Lord's hometown now a cesspool of violent Islamism. The two clerics arrested are Jihad supporters in Nazareth who have celebrated al Qaeda and who's followers have murdered innocent civilians int he past. Both were associated with the Shihab Al-Din Mosque in Nazareth. Of particular interest is Sheikh Nazem Abu Salim who headed the Mosque and who's followers ran this radical Islamist website. You don't have to speak Arabic to get what the website is about, just click the link and...