Times Square Bomb Plot

• Time Square bomb plot accused Shazad pleads guilty

  Pakistan-born American citizen Faisal Shahzad remained defiant as he pleaded guilty to attempting to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square, saying that Islamist extremists would continue to attack the United States. Shahzad, 30, admitted traveling to Pakistan to receive bomb-making training from the Pakistani Taliban, called Tehrik-e-Taliba...

• Times Square terror plot: Obama sends top aides to Pak

  US President Barack Obama has sent two of his senior most officials to Pakistan to follow-up the investigations of the failed Times Square car bomb.A White House official said the US national security advisor General James Jones and CIA Director Leon Panetta have left for Islamabad. The US describes the visit as 'time to redouble efforts with allie...

• Three in custody may have given money to bomb suspect

  Three Pakistani men taken into custody during a series of raids across the Northeast as part of the investigation into the failed Times Square car bombing may have provided money to the man who has admitted carrying out the unsuccessful attack, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Thursday.Mr. Holder said it was unclear if the men knew that ...

• No racial profiling in aftermath of Times Square plot: US

  The US has ruled out conducting "racial profiling" as an anti-terror measure in the aftermath of the failed Times Square bombing incident in which a Pakistani-origin suspect has been arrested, arguing that it is not a helpful law enforcement measure.

• Cheap terror: Times Square plot may have cost $7000

  Terror can come cheap. Confessed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad appears to have financed his failed plot with a wad of $100 bills, but the amount of money needed to execute the scheme was fairly modest.

• Times Square plot may have cost as little as $7K

  Terror can come cheap.Confessed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad appears to have financed his failed plot with a wad of $100 bills, but the amount of money needed to execute the scheme was fairly modest.There was his plane ticket to the U.S. from Pakistan, as well as a return flight to the United Arab Emirates, at a cost of less than $800 each wa...

• Times Square probe: Karachi mosque-run by JeM involved

  Pakistani intelligence officials are tracing links between Times Square bombing plot suspect Faisal Shahzad and the banned terror group Jaish-e-Muhammad- led by Maulana Masood Azhar.This search has led investigators to the sprawling, marble-floored Batha Mosque and a religious school in a crowded neighbourhood of Karachi which was once provincial h...

• Times Square bomb suspect didn't act alone: Pakistan

  Pakistan's interior minister said on Friday he believed the Times Square bombing suspect did not act alone, but he had seen no evidence suggesting the Pakistan Taliban were involved.

• Pak Taliban says did not train New York bomb suspect

  The main spokesman for Pakistan's Taliban said on Thursday the group neither trained nor recruited the Pakistani-American charged with terrorism over an attempted New York bombing.

• Shahzad may have received online education in jihad: Report

  Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American accused of trying to blow up a car bomb in the heart of Times Square in New York, may have been poring through the Internet since 2006 to gather information on jihad.