Pakistan-born American citizen Faisal Shahzad remained defiant as he pleaded guilty to attempting to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square, saying that Islamist extremists would continue to attack the United States. Shahzad, 30, admitted traveling to Pakistan to receive bomb-making training from the Pakistani Taliban, called Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, and receiving $12,000 from the group to carry out the failed plot on May 1.
Shahzad, who has a wife and two children living in Pakistan, pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted terrorism transcending national borders.
He told the judge he wanted to "plead guilty and 100 times more." He also warned that unless the US leaves Muslim lands, "We will be attacking US."
Shahzad is accused in a plot that fizzled when a gasoline-and-propane bomb failed to ignite in an SUV parked near a Broadway theater May 1. The Connecticut resident was arrested two days later. (With AP inputs)
Story first published:
June 22, 2010 08:22 IST
