Times Square bomber planned second attack on the city: feds

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Times Square bomber planned second attack on the city: feds

By BRUCE GOLDING
Last Updated: 7:23 AM, September 30, 2010
Posted: 2:26 PM, September 29, 2010

Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad bragged that he hoped to murder at least 40 innocent victims and would have attempted a second attack two weeks later if he hadn't been busted, the feds revealed today.

The evil terrorist wannabe also admitted watching "real time video feeds" over the Web to plan his botched blast at the Crossroads of the World, court papers said.

(Video at website not youtube. I'm afraid that copying it here will just lock the page)

"According to Shazad, he wanted to select the busiest time for pedestrian traffic in Times Square because pedestrians walking on the streets would be easier to kill and injure than people driving in cars," prosecutors wrote.

The chilling confessions were disclosed in a legal brief that says the fiendish Pakistani immigrant should get life in prison at his scheduled sentencing next week.

READ THE COURT DOCUMENTS DETAILING FAISAL SHAHZAD'S PLOT

Prosecutors said Shahzad's "lasting sense of pride in his actions" -- including calling himself a "mujahid," or Muslim soldier, during his guilty plea -- left "no potential for rehabilitation."

"There are few threats to the national security and way of life in this country greater than a citizen who chooses to serve as an operative for a foreign terrorist organization and attempts to wage an attack inside the United States," the Manhattan federal court filing says.

The feds also gave the judge two videos, including a never-before-released demonstration of what would have happened if Shazad, 31, had succeeded in setting off his homemade car bomb on May 1.

The 10-minute, 38-second movie features multiple views of a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder getting blown to bits by 250 pounds of fertilizer and diesel fuel, three 25-pound tanks of propane and two 5-gallon cans of gasoline.

The huge orange fireball obliterated about a dozen human dummies arrayed the truck, and turned four nearby vehicles into twisted, smoking wreckage that was sent hurtling through the air in a Pennsylvania field.

The other video -- created by Shazad's Pakistani Taliban cohorts -- shows the remorseless radical holding a copy of the Koran while urging fellow Muslims to attack America.

"Get up and learn from me and make an effort. Nothing is impossible if you just keep in mind that Allah is with you," he said while clad in military garb and seated next to an AK-47.

The 40-minute, 30-second recording, which was released over the Internet in July, is titled "A brave effort by Faisal Shahzad to attack United States in its own Land," and includes chapter headings such as "We will try our best to establish Islamic state and society."

Prosecutors said Shahzad delivered his rant while undergoing terrorist training with the Tehrik-e-Taliban between December 2009 and January of this year.

They noted that his "journey to jihad" came despite getting an American college education and two jobs that let him "live comfortably" in suburban Connecticut with his wife and two kids.

"Shahzad knowingly and deliberately chose a different path -- a nihilistic path that celebrated conflict and death cloaked in the rhetoric of a distorted interpretation of Islam," prosecutors wrote.

Shahzad's defense lawyers declined to comment.

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