By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If there was any question whether Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad might catch a break during sentencing for fully cooperating with the FBI, his statements in court on Monday may have cleared that all up: It’s highly highly unlikely. Shahzad pleaded guilty Monday and then warned the court of more…
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 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 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 The failed Times Square car bomb incident has led the FBI to the Northeast sector of the country where agents have executed search warrants, CNN reported, saying cash couriers seemed to be the target. The raids took place in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. By afternoon the Justice Department had…
By The Tennessean Editorial Page MEMPHIS — First give credit where it is due: to local New York and federal authorities who tracked down and apprehended the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing. In the nine days since Faisal Shahzad was placed in custody, he has been interviewed at great length and yielded much…
By Jeff Stein SpyTalk WASHINGTON — Poor ATF: It don’t get no respect. NYPD’s Ray Kelly, Attorney General Holder and DHS honcho Janet Napolitano all heaped praise on themselves and each other for their fabulous work in the Times Square bomb case. But the ATF? Nada. Out of sight, out of mind, evidently, overlooked like…
