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Times Square bomb suspect charged with terrorism

Other News Materials 5 May 2010 03:20 (UTC +04:00)

A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was charged Tuesday with terrorism and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the botched Times Square bombing. The government said he confessed to receiving explosives training in Pakistan, AP reported.

Faisal Shahzad - the son of an air force officer in a wealthy Pakistani family - was arrested Monday night, pulled off a plane that was about to fly to the Middle East.

According to the complaint, Shahzad confessed to buying an SUV, rigging it with a homemade bomb and driving it Saturday night into Times Square, where he tried to detonate it.

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