FBI in Pakistan Investigating Possible Shahzad Ties

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Times Square car bomb suspect Faisil Shahzad

(Credit: AP)

A law enforcement source tells CBS News that FBI agents are on the ground in Islamabad, Pakistan, as part of their investigation into the botched car bombing of New York's Times Square last week.

Agents are there to assist the Pakistani Intelligence Service and Pakistani law enforcement, while investigating possible links in that country to Faisil Shahzad, a Pakistani-American charged in the case.

The FBI agents, who need the cooperation of the Pakstanis in their investigation into Shahzad, are there to coordinate and pass along information gathered by Pakistani Intelligence, according to the source, and to share with them appropriate leads gathered by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement for follow-up.

"It's a professional partnership,'' the source tells CBS News. "The FBI has to be respectful of the host country, and will not be spreading out talking to people on its own on their soil."

The FBI has full-time legal attaches assigned in Pakistan to develop information that may have investigative value in the U.S.

The source said that the focus of the investigation continues to be who may be connected to the bombing attempt, including how it was financed, and to try to identify others who may have been coached into similar activity.

The sources suggests Shahzad, a 30-year-old naturalized American citizen and Connecticut resident, may have been trying to prove his worth for a future in the Jihadist community.

He may have wanted to go back and say "Hey, look what I did, make me one of you," the source said.

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by toldyouso21 May 9, 2010 10:42 AM EDT: We really are an odd country. WE talk about being respectful to Pakistan--but we have either on purpose or accidentally killed scores of them with drones or other weapons/bombs. We did not need to have this bombing to know that many Pakistanis are not only furious about both wars we have to wage but are militant.

When this story first appeared, it was like looking back in the past. When the first Gulf war started, my "in laws " (who were Pakistani) displayed very disruptive and racist behavior in my home as they watch us cross into Kuwait to attack Saddam. I was castigated and they took their frustration out on me--when I just wanted to pass sandwiches and entertain them in my home.

they'd watch the news then accuse me as the symbol of the US for all the ills of "white people" and "you Americans" Forgotten, it seems were that they were also US citizens and that I, had nothing to do with planning or executing an invasion. Forgotten also was the things Saddam had tried to do to Israel and others.

Instead, these people began to act like savages--snapping and snarling at me and proclaiming how Americans needed to pay for what they were doing. Totally out of proportion to the actual incident in 1991. I have since divorced that family in more ways than one (haven't seen them since 1993) but I never forgot how angry, mean and venal they were at the mere idea that Americans attacked one of their 'bretheren'.

So am I surprised that a Pakistani has tried to bomb us? No. Do I think this will be an isolated incident? No. I am surprised that it took so long for them to do this, though. We should keep in mind as we remember the horrific beheading of Daniel Pearle--that the act took place in Pakistan.

We like to separate them from other Middle EAsterners but the same militant zealot streak you see in Afghanistan and other places surely runs through many of them also--and they are HERE and have been HERE for decades. The angry group in front of me that day in 1991 had been US citizens since the 1970s.

They consider themselves to be bound by blood and are not rational when it comes to anything that attacks them--to see the virulence of their anger is a very, very scary and troubling thing--then to see them out in public --with nary a sign showing, that deep inside many are seething and wish our destruction--but on the surface, they smile, or look totally harmless......; Reply to this comment


by tingmoo May 9, 2010 8:10 AM EDT: FBI in Pakistan? Who do they think they are??

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by kotoh May 9, 2010 7:28 AM EDT

Islam is NOT peace. Islam is justice!. If you treat muslims as terrorists, then they have no choice but to turn into real terrorist instantly. Muslims all over the world can become potential terrorists if they are not treated with justice. Unless US and britons give justic.. there is no hope for US (be it christians, jews or ethies)to sleep soundly. US citizens should understand this. Terror breed terrorists. I remember, 20 years ago there were less terrorists but now it has overgrown. With invasion of Afganistan and Iraq.. more and more terrorists dents were awakened and newly created instantly. At one time, I dreamed of US MBA but now I have totaly dropped the idea of even visiting US what more receiving educations no matter how excellent are their education systems.

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by toldyouso21 May 9, 2010 10:49 AM EDT: You speak of justice--but in truth there is very little justice in what terrorists do. Because the terrorist does not strike back at the ones who harmed them or others--it usually strikes back at people who did nothing to them--be it their fellow neighbors or country men or innocent men, women and children whose only 'crime' is that they are in the area where the bombs go off.

There is NO JUSTICE if "Bob kills your daughter" and in retaliation you walk down a street in your own town and kill NOT Bob's child--but just any random child--How is that justice?

Justice in revenge can only be justice if you strike back at the person who harmed you--Terrorism does not do this--Terrorism strikes blindly and in being blind and killing even those who did nothing or who may even sympathize with you--terrorists are cowards and by striking blindly at anyone--they are evil and no matter what is promised--most WILL lift up their eyes in hell for what they do.


by mjthere May 9, 2010 12:35 AM EDT: @ANONTDH May 8, 2010 12:04 PM EDT
WHY BLAME ISLAM?
Islam is the religion of the "peace of the graveyard".
The koran on one page says "love you neighbour" and then on the next pages says "kill you neighbor if he is not a muslim" = peace of the graveyard.
The trouble is that most Muslims accept the kuran as the final and only word of their god.
Most Christian countries have separation of church and state. Muslims do not accept separation of church and state. They think the kuran is their constitution.
Why are you telling me that islam is a religion of peace Go tell that to OSama and his ilk.; Reply to this comment

by ANONTDH May 8, 2010 12:04 PM EDT

WHY BLAME ISLAM?
Individuals, not religions, carry out inhuman acts

Islam is a religion of peace, accepted and practiced by more than 1.25 billion people worldwide. It is the fastest-growing religion in the world, and if it was what some critics claim, why should the people from all walks of life from around the world keep embracing Islam?

Where is the sword now?

In Islam, a person has the right to defend himself, his family, his country or his neighbor(s), which justifies the resistance being offered by the people of Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Iraq, Kashmir and Palestine, to attacks on their soils by the so-called liberators, who are actually the occupiers.

The Holy Qur?an clearly states that if a person saves one life, it?s as if he saved humanity, and if a person kills one human being, it?s as if he killed humanity.

What is happening in the enslaved Muslim countries is a natural reaction to occupation, bombings, killing and terrorizing of innocent civilians (children, old men and women), rapes, in addition to looting of resources, national antiques and artifacts, above all destruction of property by the occupiers.

Terror breeds terror!

We assure those who bash Islam that if there was no occupation in this world by foreign invaders, there would be no resistance ? the so-called terror.

We would like those who criticize Islam to explain the following acts committed by the Christians on Jews, other Christians and Muslims alike, throughout history:

- Hundreds of thousands of Muslim men, women and children killed by the crusaders, who were Christians.
- Inquisition of Jews and Muslims from Spain by Queen Isabella, a Christian.
- Millions of people killed by the European and American Christians during the two world wars.
- Atrocities committed on millions of Jews and Christians by Adolph Hitler, a professed Christian.
- Hundreds of thousands of Christians killed every year by the Irish Christians, including the British and the IRA, both Catholics and Protestants, during the past few centuries. Why they are not blamed to be ?Christian Terrorists??
Both of them believe in Jesus Christ, who told them to turn the other cheek, and both of them believe in the same Lord, Who commanded that ?Thou shall not kill.? Period.
- Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, was a Catholic. Are all Catholics terrorists?

Last but not least, the bombings, killings, rapings and lynchings of both American Indians and black slaves (Afro-Americans) during the past 200 years in the United States.

What about them?

Will those filled with hate for Islam blame Christianity for the above
inhuman acts by Christians in various parts of the world since its inception?
If not, then why are they blaming the religion of Islam for what is a natural reaction to occupation of Muslim countries by foreign invaders?

Most importantly, these folks should know that the three great Abrahamic religions ? Judaism, Christianity and Islam ? have one common basis, and that is one God Almighty.

?All men (and women) are created equal, and we all are one nation under Almighty God,? is a statement according to the Holy Qur?an and is very well elucidated in the U.S. Constitution.

Lastly, yet importantly, as brothers in humanity, we recommend those filled with hate get an education in the history of Islam and Muslims, before they dare to write nasty letters full of personal, ingrain hate and vendetta.

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by polaral May 8, 2010 4:56 PM EDT: Cut the canned "peaceful" rhetoric. I agree with you to the point that foreign invaders are not welcome anywhere and people have the right to defend their home soil, and the U.S. certainly has pulled it's share of intrigues and dirty tricks. But, that's not a justification for terrorism!

The "peaceful religion" canard is getting very old and very tired (unless of course you want to argue that the Muslims were happily "invited" into Spain, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Persia, etc.) Mohammed was a WARRIOR and almost from it's inception Islam was spread by the SWORD.

Of all the major extant religions, Islam focuses the least on spirituality, peaceful coexistence and enlightenment and more on war, vengeance and reprisal. I'm sorry, but it's basically a primitive tribal religion which at it's central core focuses on blind submission to a war god, suppressing women, and to eliminating or converting ?infidels?. Look at theocratic Iran or Saudi Arabia!

Yes, Christianity has been guilty of more than it's share of atrocities over the ages, but at least for the most part THEY'VE OUTGROWN IT! It?s arch-prophet advocated love, forbearance and forgiveness, not revenge, war and conquest. And I'm not even advocating Christianity? I'm an atheist.

Islam still proudly basks in it's barbaric medieval glory, with it's floggings, stonings, mutilations, state sanctioned misogyny, honor killings, beheadings and legal slavery... not to mention death treats against cartoonists, journalists and dissenting authors - and of course suicide bombers, whose holy men promise them x number of virgins and a fast track to heaven . Whoa, move over Jesus and Budha? that?s some mighty peaceful and sophisticated ideology there!

If the acts of these terrorists were so universally condemned by the Islamic world as heretical against the will of Allah and the teachings of Mohammed, then why aren't these SINNERS being informed on brought to justice in large numbers? Am we to understand that the morays of entire society are being subverted by a rabble band of criminals that everyone wants to but is afraid to challenge?? BS, I say!

Organized extremism on this kind of global scale could not continue to exist if it weren't at the very least being tacitly, if not actively, supported by Islamic governments and/or their people and clergy.

This is in part why I blame Islam.


by mjthere May 9, 2010 12:37 AM EDT: @ANONTDH May 8, 2010 12:04 PM EDT
WHY BLAME ISLAM?
Islam is the religion of the "peace of the graveyard".
The koran on one page says "love you neighbour" and then on the next pages says "kill you neighbor if he is not a muslim" = peace of the graveyard.
The trouble is that most Muslims accept the kuran as the final and only word of their god.
Most Christian countries have separation of church and state. Muslims do not accept separation of church and state. They think the kuran is their constitution.
Why are you telling me that islam is a religion of peace Go tell that to OSama and his ilk.


by baileyccc May 8, 2010 11:37 AM EDT: They are all clowns.... They can't light their shoes, they can't light their underwear and they can't make a bomb. One thing they all have in common is to die. posted by baileyccc; Reply to this comment


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by ToddSicklinger May 8, 2010 11:22 AM EDT: If he had contacts with any real terrorists, I think that he would have done a much better job at trying to make a bomb.; Reply to this comment