Geo436.com blog: Faisal Shahzad to be sentenced today

Geo436 LONDON: The 30 year old Pakistani, Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the Times Square bomb plot is to be sentenced on Tuesday.

The term requested is expected to be life. He is accused of attempting to set off a car bomb in Times Square on May 1, according to documents filed in federal court Wednesday.

Fortunately, the bomb failed to detonate and he was arrested two days later while trying to leave the country. He was detained on a flight from New York”s John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for Pakistan.

Failed bomber Shahzad bragged that he hoped to murder at least 40 people, and would have attempted a second attack two weeks later if he hadn”t been caught, the FBI revealed yesterday.

The terrorist also told of watching real-time webcam feeds to plan his bomb at the Square.

“According to Shahzad, he wanted to select the busiest time for pedestrian traffic in Times Square because pedestrians walking on the streets would be easier to kill and injure than people driving in cars,” prosecutors wrote.

The chilling confessions were disclosed in a legal brief that says the Pakistani immigrant should get life in prison at his scheduled sentencing next week.

Prosecutors said Shahzad”s “lasting sense of pride in his actions” — including calling himself a “mujahid,” or Muslim holy warrior, during his guilty plea — left “no potential for rehabilitation.”

On June 21, Shahzad pleaded guilty to all 10 counts in the indictment against him, telling the court, “I want to plead guilty 100 times because unless the United States pulls out of Afghanistan and Iraq, until they stop drone strikes in Somalia, Pakistan and Yemen and stop attacking Muslim lands, we will attack the United States and be out to get them.”