Times Square Bomber Gets Life In Jail

[dalsingh101]

Times Square bomber gets life in jail

Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad had packed explosives into the back of an SUV, but the detonator failed

The failed Times Square car bomber was jailed for life today for trying to bring carnage to crowded central New York.

Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad was told by a judge she hoped he spends some of his time behind bars thinking "carefully about whether the Koran wants you to kill lots of people."

Shahzad's thirst for bloodshed showed no signs of waning as he and Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum sparred repeatedly over his reasoning for giving up his comfortable life in America to train in Pakistan and carry out the potentially deadly attack on May 1.

Instead of exploding, his massive bomb in the back of a sport utility vehicle failed to detonate, attracting the attention of a street vendor, who alerted police. The discovery set off an evacuation of the tourist-laden area and a massive investigation that resulted in his arrest two days later as he sought to flee the country.

"You appear to be someone who was capable of education and I do hope you will spend some of the time in prison thinking carefully about whether the Koran wants you to kill lots of people," Judge Cedarbaum told Shahzad after she announced his mandatory life sentence, which under federal sentencing rules will keep him behind bars until he dies.

Shahzad, 31, responded that the "Koran gives us the right to defend. And that's all I'm doing."

Earlier, Shahzad offered a lecture of his own for Americans, saying he felt no remorse.

"We are only Muslims ... but if you call us terrorists, we are proud terrorists and we will keep on terrorising you," he said.

At another point, he said: "The defeat of the US is imminent."

Judge Cedarbaum said her sentence was very important "to protect the public from further crimes of this defendant and others who would seek to follow him."

During Shahzad's statement, she cut him off at one point to ask if he had sworn allegiance to the United States when he became an American citizen last year.

"I did swear but I did not mean it," said Shahzad, a former budget analyst from Connecticut who was born in Pakistan.

"So you took a false oath," the judge told him.

Shahzad demonstrated throughout the half-hour proceeding in Manhattan that he had not wavered in the months since he pleaded guilty in June to 10 terrorism and weapons counts, some of which carry mandatory life sentences.

"I want to plead guilty and I'm going to plead guilty a hundred times forward," he said in June.

Today he picked up where he left off.

"If I'm given 1,000 lives I will sacrifice them all for the life of Allah," he said at the start of a statement that lasted several minutes and was interrupted several times by the judge who said she wanted to hear what he had to say about his sentencing. "How can I be judged by a court that does not understand the suffering of my people?"

Shahzad, who last year received explosives training in Pakistan to prepare for his bombing attempt, said attacks on Americans will continue until the United States leaves Muslim lands.

"We do not accept your democracy or your freedom because we already have Sharia law and freedom," Shahzad said.

Shahzad had instructed his lawyer not to speak, and smirked as the judge announced her sentence.

Asked by the judge if he had any final words, Shahzad said, "I'm happy with the deal that God has given me."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/times-square-bomber-gets-life-in-jail-2098448.html

[amardeep]

As Sri Russel Peters said "You go to jail bad boy!! "

[Mithar]

This guy came from a very good influential family in Pakistan. I think I remember reading how his father was a retired general or maybe an air force commander in the Pakistani armed forces. He came from a rich, educated family. Wonder what happened to him.

[Kaljug]

Wonder what happened to him.

Islam.

K.

[tonyhp32]

You have to applaud the American justice system that they can give someone a life sentence which actually means life. In the UK they would have sentenced him to 10 years and he would have been out in five!

[tonyhp32]

This guy came from a very good influential family in Pakistan. I think I remember reading how his father was a retired general or maybe an air force commander in the Pakistani armed forces. He came from a rich, educated family. Wonder what happened to him.

It's a myth that Islamic terrorism is caused by poverty and that if the west leaves the Islamic countries alone that the movements will subside. They might subside for a decade or so while the Islamaniacs start to fight their own governments but once they capture one state then it would be a domino effect as they capture other muslim states. Once they have their khalifah then the non-Muslim would would face the same fate as faced by the Persian and Byzantine empires as well as Europe and India. They would be faced by an ultimatum to convert or submit to being tributaries sending yearly tribute to the khalifah. Failing either then the non-Muslim states will face invasions of their territory with the added danger that they have muslim citizens acting as fifth columnists for the khalifah.

[Mithar]

It's a myth that Islamic terrorism is caused by poverty and that if the west leaves the Islamic countries alone that the movements will subside. They might subside for a decade or so while the Islamaniacs start to fight their own governments but once they capture one state then it would be a domino effect as they capture other muslim states. Once they have their khalifah then the non-Muslim would would face the same fate as faced by the Persian and Byzantine empires as well as Europe and India. They would be faced by an ultimatum to convert or submit to being tributaries sending yearly tribute to the khalifah. Failing either then the non-Muslim states will face invasions of their territory with the added danger that they have muslim citizens acting as fifth columnists for the khalifah.

Sunni extremists want to create a Khalifah state which would include all of the Muslim lands, I wonder where that would leave the powerful Shia state like Iran which I bet would do all it can to resist such a Sunni dominated state. Right now it seems Iran is spending money on Shias in the middle east who are currently under Sunni occupation to get more militant. They have already managed to make Iraq and Lebanon a militantly Shia dominated state (where Sunnis actually feel persecuted). The same is being done in Yemin which has a large (non 12er) Shia population who are heavily armed. Soudi Arabia's eastern half (which has most of the oil) is also full of Shia. I feel if the Sunnis will get a Khilafa it will only include Sunni dominated lands because from the looks of it, the Shia are not taking their crap anymore either.

[shaheediyan]

Not sure if anyone reads the National Geographic here, but there was an excellent article on the 'real Pakistan' which looked into taliban support, taliban hate, economic influenced difference/opinions, regional differences i.e. Punjabis, Sindhis etc, as well as the growing westernised middle class.

Defunks many stereotypes.

This brainwashed taliban prat got what he deserved, I agree, we need to make some examples of people with ill intentions here in the UK also.

[dalsingh101]

People have to face the fact that sullay feel like the west is targeting them. The blundering goray phudhu's actions themselves hasn't helped to combat this perception.

Frankly, I think sullay are being smart and ensuring they have their own 'cultural space' away from an engulfing west.

The irony is that within sullaism itself we have identical borg-like streak which seeks to do a very similar thing but with teeth on!

These arsehole deserve each other. Screw them both.

We need to ask what we can do to keep ourselves protected from either one of them.

Anyone who thinks the solution is being one side's kooti over the other should just let that thought die in their head now.

Edited October 6, 2010 by dalsingh101