Bomb Suspect Nabbed While Trying To Leave U.S.

  
Shahzad is a Connecticut resident and recently returned from Pakistan






  

    

      
By Dina Temple-Raston

      
Published: May 04, 2010

    

    

                   
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FBI search an alley on the property of a house where Faisal Shahzad lived, in Bridgeport, Conn., Tuesday, May 4, 2010.
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	Attorney General Eric Holder said customs agents have arrested a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen in connection with the failed plot to detonate a car bomb in New York's Times Square.



	Faisal Shahzad, who is suspected of driving an explosives-laden SUV into Times Square, was taken into custody just before midnight Monday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. One official said he claimed to have acted alone.



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		Faisal Shahzad became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2009. He lived in Shelton, Conn. with his wife and two small children until last year.
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		Shahzad's former home in Shelton appeared Tuesday to have been unoccupied for a while, with grass growing in the driveway and bags of garbage lying about at the two-story grayish-brown Colonial.
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		Authorities say Shahzad bought the 13-year-old SUV on Craigslist three weeks ago from another Connecticut man. 
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	It's clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans.

        
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