Faisal Shahzad, the man who dropped his life in Shelton to train as a terrorist, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for attempting to detonate a car bomb in Times Square last spring.
“Faisal Shahzad is a remorseless terrorist who betrayed his adopted country and today was rightly sentenced to spend the rest of his life in federal prison,” said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in a prepared statement. “While his life sentence ensures that he will never again threaten the security of New York City and our nation, together we must remain vigilant against those like him who wish to do us harm.”
Shahzad threw Shelton into the international spotlight last year when it was revealed the Pakistan-born, naturalized U.S. citizen had been a run-of-the mill suburbanite living in a newly-constructed house on Long Hill Avenue. Shahzad’s property had fallen into foreclosure prior to his leaving the U.S. to receive terrorism training in Waziristan, a lawless section of Pakistan on its border with Afghanistan.
Since Shahzad’s capture aboard a plane bound for Dubai at John F. Kennedy International Airport May 3, the U.S. has increased military attacks on Waziristan.
Shahzad pleaded guilty to 10 federal crimes from the attempted Times Square bombing.
Click here to see video from CNN showing what the car bomb might have been like had it gone off.
Two Valley Indy readers posting on our Facebook page said the punishment for the terrorist wasn’t enough.
“Oh, so we can support him because he failed …great, gotta love it,” Maggie Nolan-Solsbury wrote.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of N.Y., issued the following press release on Shahzad Tuesday afternoon:
The government’s original complaint:
