Faisal Shazad

As dawn broke on July 10, 2007, Pakistani commandos stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad, ending a lengthy standoff with armed militants in a blaze of gunfire that left more than 100 dead. In Washington, officials applauded the siege as an important demonstration of Pakistan's willingness to confront Islamist militants. Yet Faisal Shahzad, a Pakista...

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-Taliba...

As dawn broke on July 10, 2007, Pakistani commandos stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad, ending a lengthy standoff with armed militants in a blaze of gunfire that left more than 100 dead. In Washington, officials applauded the siege as an important demonstration of Pakistan's willingness to confront Islamist militants. Yet Faisal Shahzad, a Pakista...

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-Taliba...