Pakistan

Taliban instructed Faisal Shahzad

May 10, 2010

WASHINGTON: Pakistani-American terror suspect Faisal Shahzad, arrested for the Times Square bombing plot, was instructed by the Pakistani Taliban to always pay cash and not to leave a "paper trail" in transactions, a media report said on Monday.

"He was told to be very careful about not letting anything track back to him. No receipts and no paper. No nothing," an official source close to the investigation was quoted as saying by the Los Angeles Times. "He was told to leave no paper trail at all," it said.

It said Shahzad had paid in cash for his gun, as also for the van he bought from a Connecticut-based teenager.

The investigators probing the plot are trying to determine the amount of money provided to carry out the operation, and who put up the funds and how it was paid out to Shahzad, the report said.

Another report in the same paper has said that Shahzad, a naturalised citizen of the United States, might have been disturbed by increasing US drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal belt.

Agents interviewing the 30-year-old have learned that he was upset over repeated CIA drone attacks on militants in his the country of his birth.

COMMENTS (4)

Shabah | 14 years ago | Reply To Hasan, Hey hey hey, what are soldiers for? To fight for the security and survival of the country of course. Since the security and survival of Pakistan lies in constant inflow of dollars, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to do i.e., dying for the American cause and helping the country earn the much needed foreign exchange.

Safdar | 14 years ago | Reply Hasan Zuberi Get your head clear and stop believing in fairy tales and conspiracy theories

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Rana Taimoor | 14 years ago | Reply Well the guy had duel nationality. He was US citizen as well, should we start blaming US govt. for the black water connected terror activities in Pakistan, which frankly we should since a US court grant them immunity over the crimes they committed in Iraq.

Hasan Zuberi | 14 years ago | Reply “He was told to be very careful about not letting anything track back to him. No receipts and no paper. No nothing,” an official source close to the investigation was quoted as saying by the Los Angeles Times. “He was told to leave no paper trail at all,” it said. .... yes and he followed it to an extent that he left a set of his house keys in the car, which he bought himself and in his name, and is identifiable even after the planned bombing ?? It seems like a good excuse for making ground for Pakistani-Troops to go into Waziristan ... like the infamous swat-flogging video, later turned out to be a fake. I wonder if Gen. Kayani is ready to sacrifice more of our soldiers for the blessings of the Americans?

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