U.S. Officials: No Credible Evidence That Terrorists Trained Shahzad

[tekisui]

Source: McClatchy

WASHINGTON — No credible evidence has been found so far that the Pakistani-American man accused in the Times Square bombing plot received any serious terrorist training from the Pakistani Taliban or another radical Islamic group, six U.S. officials said Thursday.

"There is nothing that confirms that any groups have been found involved in this for certain," one U.S. official told McClatchy. "It's a lot of speculation at this point."

Faisal Shahzad may have, at the most, had "incidental contact" with a terrorist organization, and he may have been encouraged to act, said one of the officials, who declined to elaborate further.

Four U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials and two other U.S. officials with knowledge of the case spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss classified intelligence or the ongoing investigation publicly.

According to a five-count criminal complaint filed by U.S. prosecutors in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday, Shahzad admitted after his arrest on Monday to receiving bomb-making training in Waziristan, a part of Pakistan's tribal area bordering Afghanistan, during a five-month trip to his homeland that ended in February.

According to the criminal complaint, Shahzad admitted that he'd parked a Nissan SUV loaded with propane tanks, gasoline canisters, fertilizer and fireworks coupled to two alarm clocks in New York's Times Square on Saturday evening and fled.

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[conspirator]

1. I believe he was badly trained on purpose by someone of the CIA posing as a terrorist nt

[fascisthunter]

2. lol.... this country is becoming a bigger bad joke every day

but they use this as a reason to send troops to Pakistan... watch.

[tekisui]

3. More troops to Pakistan. There are already abour 200 there.

50 more were already going, two days before the Times Square bungle.

Not to mention all the CIA running around in Pakistan.