Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, has been sentenced for life. He pled guilty and was not offered any deals by the prosecution to do this. The sentence is for life. There could be no possibility of parole. This May, Shahzad attempted to carry out a terrorist attack. He tried to set off a crude explosive device in Times Square. Shahzad parked an SUV and left, and police defused the device after being tipped off and carrying out a Times Square evacuation. Shahzad was arrested not long afterward. Shahzad is affiliated with a Taliban group based upon in Pakistan.
Times Square bomber receives life conviction
An SUV with explosives in it was what Faisal Shahzad tried to leave in Times Square so it’d explode. He was arrested pretty soon after his Times Square bomb didn’t really work. In June, he pleaded guilty. This is what CNN reports. He committed 10 crimes and was found guilty for all. The judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He has been called the Times Square bomber leaving him in prison until he dies. He said America would die. He also said this defeat would happen in the near future. He also said that The United States was bound to lose its land soon. This would be because Islam adherents would make it happen.
Shahzad has communication with Pakistan Taliban
Shahzad claims he spoke with the Taliban group in Pakistan. This evidently happened often. Reuters explains that his bomb operation got funds from Tehrik-e-Taliban which is a jihadist group. He moved his wife and kids to Pakistan from Connecticut. If Shahzad had been successful in his attack, he was planning on doing an additional one. He said that his intention was to kill up to 40 individuals or more. He would have carried a second plot a number of weeks after the first. After his New York terror plot failed, he attempted to flee to Dubai, but was caught at LuGuardia airport.
Prosecution expects to get life
The criminal prosecution requested life. That’s the conviction the criminal prosecution wanted. Life in jail was enough of a threat the criminal prosecution thought it would stop others. That is the conviction he ended up getting.
Details from
CNN
edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/05/new.york.terror.plot/?hpt=T1
Reuters
reuters.com/article/idUSN0517486220101005
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