The New York Times, investigators are exploring whether the man arrested Tuesday or others involved in the attack were thwarted in contact with people or groups abroad.
Man, an American national of Pakistani origin, had purchased the vehicle used in the attempted car attack Saturday in New York.
Two days after the evacuation of the City's Times Square, New York, the investigation continues. A man identified as an American citizen of Pakistani origin was arrested on the night of Monday to Tuesday and placed in custody. He is suspected of having bought the car used in the failed assassination attempt of May 1 and have led to the heart of Manhattan.
Recognized by customs, the suspect, named Faisal Shahzad, was arrested shortly before midnight at Kennedy Airport in New York while trying to board a flight to Dubai, said Tuesday the U.S. Department of Justice Eric Holder. According New Tork TimesMan, residing in Connecticut, bought the 4x4 trapped three weeks ago, paying in cash. Authorities tracked him by asking the former owner of the vehicle.
Sources close to the investigation have also said that Faisal Shahzad, aged 30, had recently spent five months in Pakistan, where he had a wife. It would have been in Peshawar, the main town in north-west, near the Afghan border, a center for recruiting and their Taliban allies of al-Qaida.
Faisal Shahzad is scheduled to appear Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan for "alleged conduct of a car in Times Square on the evening of May 1, court officials said.
A video and fingerprints:
According to Peter King, a member of the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, the survey "clearly moving towards international ism. "We continue to follow several leads," said Eric Holder on his side, urging Americans to exercise increased vigilance. "It is clear that the purpose behind this ist act was to kill Americans."
Since Monday, the coordination of research has been entrusted to the anti-terrorist force (Joint ism Task Force, JTTF) Department of Justice. Investigators continue to view such images of the 82 CCTV cameras that observe the neighborhood. Among these recordings, a film shot Saturday night near the scene of the incident had caught their attention. It showed a white man aged about forty years removed his shirt. But the track would have been discarded after the identification of the owner of the 4x4, investigators now believed that he could not only be a passing.
Investigators are also examining the fingerprints discovered on the three tanks and two cans of petrol left in the car, and the testimony of a tourist who said "having perhaps a snapshot of the author the failed attack.
The Taliban claim to the attempt:
Officially, the investigators have no evidence linking this attempt to al-Qaida or another major ist organization, although two videos of Pakistani Taliban in this direction have emerged on the Internet.
A group specializing in the analysis of claims ists has announced late Sunday that the Pakistani Taliban had distributed videoDated by specialists in early April, where their leader Hakimullah Mehsud promised new attacks against U.S. cities. "The time is approaching when our soldiers will attack the major cities of the United States," Mehsud said in a message Hakimullah nearly 9 minutes. However, he never mentions specifically the attempt which has caused panic in New York last Saturday.
Mehsud was given up for for several months by U.S. and Pakistani officials. According to them, it would have been killed in an attack by U.S. drones in Pakistan in January. But the Pakistani intelligence believe he survived the raid. For their part, U.S. intelligence agencies never confirmed his , denied by the Pakistani Taliban.
Earlier in the day Sunday, the Pakistani Taliban had claimed responsibility for the attempted attack. In this first message, they asserted that this action interfered in retaliation for the of their leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, and leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq killed by U.S. and Iraqi troops last month north of Baghdad.
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