Link emerges between Times Square bomb attempt and Pakistani militant group

Source: LA Times

A member of the Al Qaeda-allied Pakistani militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad is being held by authorities in Pakistan. That man spent time with Faisal Shahzad, the person charged in the failed bomb plot, although sources say that does not mean Jaish-e-Muhammad engineered the plot.

ISLAMABAD — One of the men arrested in Pakistan in connection with the failed attempt to bomb New York's Times Square is a member of Jaish-e-Muhammad, an Al Qaeda-allied Pakistani militant group, intelligence sources in Karachi said Wednesday.

The revelation marks the first time that a specific Pakistani militant group has been associated with the case of Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani American charged in the failed bomb plot. But it does not necessarily mean that the organization engineered the plot or directed Shahzad's actions.

The intelligence sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media on the case.

The man arrested, Sheikh Mohammed Rehan, allegedly drove with Shahzad from Karachi to Peshawar on July 7 in a pickup truck, authorities said. They returned to Karachi July 22. It is not known why they went to Peshawar or with whom, if anyone, they met there.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/asia/la-fg-pakistan-shahzad-20100506,0,4293192.story

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Well, well.

"Muslim"

and

"Islam".

Tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock...

Jaish-e-Muhammad, Taliban, al Qaeda... does the paper need to point out they're radical religious groups? I thought that's pretty understood.

I'd like to know why.

But tell me your religion first, it's seems you think religion is more important.

What's yours?

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