Times Square Bomb Suspect May Have Received Online Education in Jihad

By Jana Winter - FOXNews.com

The 30-year-old Pakistani-American accused of trying to blow up an SUV in the heart of Times Square may have been poring through the Internet for years to gather information on jihad. FoxNews.com has uncovered several dozens of postings by a man named Faisal Shahzad on radical Islamist Salafist websites devoted to a variety of different jihadist sects.

FoxNews.com has uncovered several dozens of postings by a man named Faisal Shahzad on radical Islamist Salafist websites devoted to a variety of different jihadist sects.

Experts suspect this is the same Faisal Shahzad whom authorities have charged with plotting to explode a massive car bomb in New York on Saturday. If so, then he has been educating himself on the Internet for years on the legitimacy of holy war.

Shahzad visited numerous websites devoted to ideological discussion of Islamism and Shariah law. His apparent online posts date back to at least 2006 — three years before the Times Square suspect became a naturalized American citizen.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/05/times-square-bomber-faisal-shahzad/

:shrug: Wait a minute here... what about all that illegal surveillance the Bush administration was doing. Isn't this exactly the type of person they were supposedly trying to discover?

I've been skeptical of online instruction for a while, and Shazad's lack of achievement speaks to the inefficacy of virtual schools. Next time, Faisal, choose the face-to-face option....

being with other students, and thats even truer of graduate school.

I'm not sure where the study of Jihad falls.

You can't just print out jihadist bombs 4 dummies and expect the thing to work on the first try.