By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The legal fate of Faisal Shahzad, the confessed Times Square car bomb plotter, remained unclear this week. U.S. Magistrate Judge Theodore H. Katz in Manhattan postponed a preliminary hearing that had been set for earlier this week on Tuesday, the deadline for the government to file an indictment or possibly go…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The fallout from the Times Square car bomb case on May 1 could lead to deportations. A federal immigration judge in Boston has scheduled an Aug. 10 deportation hearing for Pakistani Pir Khan, 43, of Watertown, Mass., one of three men arrested after FBI agents acted on information provided by the…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News The crime isn’t kosher, but the prison meals certainly are for Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad. One night the menu calls for vegetarian stuffed cabbage; the next, kosher beef meatloaf or turkey cutlet. New York U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis last week granted a request by Shahzad,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Suspected NY car bomber Faisal Shahzad who had been holed up in an undisclosed location talking to investigators without an attorney since his arrest May 3, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Manhattan shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday. The New York Times reported that Shahzad, 30, was wearing gray shirt…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The three Pakistani men rounded up last week as part of the ongoing probe into the New York car bomb incident don’t appear to have links to terrorism, the Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. told the Boston Globe. Ambassador Husain Haqqani of Washington, whose statement was based on briefings…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Talk may be cheap, but for New York car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad, yapping to the feds, and doing so without a lawyer, could potentially pay off in the form of a lighter sentence, legal experts say. Just how much lighter is anyone’s guess, though clearly he’s…
Stories like this may provide some insight into the latest attempted terrorist attack involving Faisal Shahzad, a man came from a well-to-do family in Pakistan,who was making a life as an American, but became increasingly angry at the U.S. and its policies. By Andrea Elliott, Sabrina Tavernise and Anne Barnard New York Times Just after…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Pakistani man linked to a militant group in his country has told authorities he acted as an accomplice to the failed New York car bomber Faisal Shahzad, the Washington Post is reporting. The Post reported that the man, arrested by Pakistani authorities, has provided an “independent stream” of…
