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Pakistan detainee claims he is bomber's accomplice |
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(05/14/2010)
Washington, PAB-Online
A Pakistani man detained by that country's government has told
interrogators he is an accomplice of the Pakistani-American who planted a
bomb in New York's Times Square, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
The paper cited US officials as saying the suspect's arrest had not been previously disclosed, and that he has provided an "independent stream" of evidence linking the Pakistani Taliban to the failed attack and admitted to helping main suspect Faisal Shahzad travel to remote tribal areas for training.
"What they said has been corroborated by other evidence," a senior law enforcement source told the Post, referring to the suspect arrested in Pakistan and to Faisal, who is in US custody.
The source did not provide details on the evidence, the daily said.
A US intelligence official told the newspaper that the suspect in Pakistani custody "is believed to have a connection to the TTP," an acronym for the Pakistani Taliban.
Attorney General Eric Holder has said there is evidence that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the May 1 plot, in which Shahzad allegedly left a bomb in sport utility vehicle in New York's bustling Times Square.
Federal agents conducted a series of raids Thursday in the US northeast, arresting three people suspected of funneling money to the Shahzad.
Revelations that an arrested man linked to the Pakistani Taliban has admitted to helping Shahzad could boost calls for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to blacklist the group as a foreign terrorist organization.
The State Department has already acknowledged it was considering such a designation, which would ban Americans from funding or assisting the group and bar its members from entering the United States.(AFP/IP)
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