As you all may of heard of, there was an attempted terrorist attack Saturday night in the heart of Manhattan. The suspect, Faisal Shahzad, bought a Nissan Pathfinder in a Connecticut shopping mall and paid for it in cash. The bomb in the SUV made up of propane tanks, fertilizer and gasoline failed to detonate. Faisal Shahzad, an American Citizen, was arrested in JFK airport while trying to catch a plane to Dubai. Investigators believe that Shazad did not act alone. As a matter of fact, the Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud released a video about 24 hours after the attempted attack claiming that the Taliban are prepared to inflict "painful blows" to all the major U.S. cities. Although, a military official said that there is no credible evidence that the Taliban are responsible for the attack. Kevin Berry, a former bomb squad member, said that the bomb had no known signature linking back to any other terrorist organizations. Also, the article said that bombs linked to the Taliban would have been much better quality. A former agent even called it a Rube Goldberg contraption, which reminded me of physics.
I believe it is extremely heart breaking to have a naturalized American citizen try and inflict so much pain but I am thankful that he was enough of an amateur to not even make the bomb properly. This makes me believe that he was not linked to the terrorist groups. Although, some of the evidence is in favor that there is a tie between them because of the video released so closely after and his attempt to leave the country. I am very curious to see how this all plays out.
So what do you guys think? Is there possibly a terrorist organization forming in our own country? Or is the Taliban responsible for the attempted attack? Or did Shahzad act alone? Will there be more possible attacks in the future? Is there the possibility that Shahzad is innocent?
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This is pretty disappointing. Even though it is a bomb that is not made properly Shahzad still had the intention of hurting these US cities. As a country we can not really do anything else but being very cautious about finding terrorists
Video cameras don't lie. If they catch him with the car, he obviously did it.
The possibility that he acted alone is there. Taliban would gladly take credit for violence that they potentially didn't do because they would be linked with the act. This would elevate the amount of terror the organization emanates. Their hope is that we would be even more scared of them when we associate the bombing with them.
I've long known that car bombings are stealthier than plane bombings. While bombs and luggages that go to planes can be screened and removed, there is no one to filter out hazardous materials when someone enters a car or stores stuff in the trunk. We just got lucky that the bomb failed and that a T-shirt vendor happen to notice the smoke coming from the car.
This is really scary to know that a citizen tried to do this, it is possible that he did act alone but than again we never know now a days. But than a terrorist act doesn't necessarily mean that Shahzad was part of a Talaban organization. There are a lot of crazy people out there and I wouldn't doubt if this was planned on his own.
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