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Faisal Shahzad Pleads Guilty To Times Square Bomb Plot

June 21, 2010

Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad pleads guilty

The suspect in an alleged attempt to bomb New York's Time Square has pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court.

Faisal Shahzad is accused of receiving funds and training from the Taliban in Pakistan to carry out the plot.

A petrol and propane bomb was left in a sports utility vehicle near Broadway theatres on 1 May but failed to ignite.

The Pakistani-born US citizen said that unless the US left Islamic countries "we will be attacking US".

Matthew Price reports.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10372037.stm

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