Pakistani-American Arrested For Times Square Bomb Linked To Taliban?

Shahzad Faisal, a Pakistani-American, was arrested at John F Kennedy airport, a few hours ago, in connection with the attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square New York. The suspect is believed to have been trying to leave the country when authorities swooped.

Faisal, a naturalised American who had immigrated from Pakistan, had recently returned from a trip to Pakistan to his home in Connecticut which will be of major concern in light of videos received recently.

On Sunday the Pakistani Taliban released a video on the Internet in terms of which they claimed responsibility for the car bomb attempt on Times Square, New York.

In a second video, which was released by the Taliban in early April, their leader promised an attack on major U.S. cities "in some days or a month." The video does not make specific reference to the New York attack but the U.S. group monitoring terrorist traffic believes that the video is credible.

In the first video the Pakistani militants confirm that Times Square was revenge for the death of its leader, Baitullah Mehsud, and the recent slaying of al-Qaida leaders Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, in Iraq.

Police and FBI agents said that they were looking for a second suspect, a man filmed on a tourist’s video camera running from the car shortly after it was parked in Times Square on Saturday.

They also want to identify a white man, aged in his forties, who was videotaped on surveillance cameras removing a shirt and putting it in a backpack.

The authorities will not have missed the fact that Faisal is from Pakistan the home of the Taliban who are threatening to wreak havoc on the U.S.