Suspect in Times Square bombing attempt was paid $12,000 by Pakistani Taliban

[Robb]

Moral: you get what you pay for.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/17/AR2010061705617.html">Suspect in Times Square bombing attempt was paid by Pakistani Taliban, indictment says

The suspect in the attempted bombing of Times Square received $12,000 from the Pakistani Taliban to carry out the plot, according to a federal indictment released Thursday that formally charges Faisal Shahzad with receiving training and support from the militant group.

The indictment includes 10 separate charges, double the number of counts in the initial criminal complaint that was filed against Shahzad three days after a Nissan Pathfinder packed with explosives was left smoldering in one of the busiest intersections in New York.

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The document offers little new information about the plot, aside from details of alleged payments of $5,000 and $7,000 Shahzad is said to have received in two transactions from a person in Pakistan affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban. The first payment was collected Feb. 25 in Massachusetts, and the second about two weeks later in Ronkonkoma, N.Y.

U.S. officials declined to identify the alleged accomplice or to say whether he was in custody in Pakistan.

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[babylonsister]

1. That's interesting. Now the Taliban has to pay

peeps to carry out their jihad? Things not going so well for them?

[burnsei sensei]

2. But one great lesson of the Taliban

is that your life means nothing!
Nothing!
If they pay this guy 12,000 dollars to park a damn vehicle loaded with explosives, they're admitting that they want to keep him alive and coming back for more.
Their religious fervor doesn't run very broad-- they couldn't make this American into a zealot.
That's what this tells me. And it's good news. The fewer zealots there are, the safer the world is.

[madrchsod]

3. 12 thousand?

the pakistani taliban are a bunch of cheap asses. they should know ..ya get what ya pay for.

[Johonny]

5. you get what you pay for though

[Oregone]

4. If thats true, the US has converted a bunch of misfits into an international terrorist ring

Who are still misfits, more or less. But, you know what I mean...the Taliban was too busy killing Buddha statues years ago to give much of a care about what was happening halfway around the world.