Where is Faisal Shahzad from?

Posted By Joshua Keating Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 2:36 PM Share

The New York Times cites at least three different possibilities: 

Mr. Shahzad stated on a college application that the place was Karachi, but a Pakistani official said he was born in Kashmir. Rehman Malik, the Pakistani interior minister, told Reuters Mr. Shahzad was born in Pabbi, east of Peshawar.

 

 

SURESH SHETH

3:12 PM ET

May 5, 2010

Pakistan wants to link its own terrorist activities to Kashmir

Obviously Pakistani government is trying to link Faisal Shahbaz to Kashmir. That way Pakistan can get US to pressure India on Kashmir. Pakistan never misses a chance get India involved in Pakistan’s own shananigans.

 

SPAMFILTER

5:00 PM ET

May 5, 2010

Pakistan verus India

Pakistan verus India is playing on any level. The normal man, like faisal, is the colectoral damage.

 

NYGDAN

9:07 AM ET

May 6, 2010

Family

I saw in another article that his family is from the NorthWest of the country, which seems like it answers the question better than anything else; he's 'from' where his larger family is from, even if he moved to Karachi at some point.

 

NYGDAN

12:35 PM ET

May 6, 2010

per cnn

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/06/times.square.probe/?hpt=T1

They interviewed his father in Peshawar (I had thought that his immediate family lived in Karachi and the extended family was in peshawar, so Karachi is very recent, if he was ever there at all). This makes more sense, Karachi is a more 'urbane' city, from what I understand, whereas Peshawar is, again from what I understand as a real novice to the region, more of a frontier type City.

 

KENNETH SORENSEN

8:46 AM ET

May 7, 2010

He could be a paid agent working for the Israelis or friends

In this context , it is crucial that nothing happened - cause they would't want to harm their own home turf, would they?

What about that? What to you say to this? Always when something like that happens, ask yourself who would benefit.

The guy could simply have been bought by the Israelis and/or their network, cause it is in their strategic interest that the world deals with what they perceive as 'extremist Islamists'. A handsome sum has then been paid to him (since he presumably will be imprisoned for life, he have given this money to friends or relatives, so watch in the coming years if the relatives suddenly gets better off.

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