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Faisal Shahzad Indicted in Attempted Times Square Bombing

By DNAinfo Staff on June 17, 2010 6:57pm

Mug shot of Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad.
Mug shot of Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad.
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By Shayna Jacobs

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — Self-admitted Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad was indicted on ten counts related to a plot to explode an SUV in the heart of New York City, the U.S. Attorney announced Thursday.

The indictment said Shahzad, who has been cooperating with authorities since his May 3 arrest, received training in December 2009 from an extremist group in Pakistan called Tehrik-e-Taliban.

The group financed the failed act of terror and wired Shahzad money for the explosives he assembled and attempted to detonate on West 45th Street at Seventh Avenue, the indictment said.

The 30-year-old American citizen and former financial analyst received $5,000 cash on Feb. 25 from a co-conspirator who worked for the Tehrik-e-Taliban, the grand jury found.

He received another $7,000 from the same co-conspirator before purchasing the Nissan Pathfinder used in the attack on April 24 and buying a prepaid cell phone on April 16, federal prosecutors charged.

Police cleared out a several-block stretch in the hub of Manhattan after Shahzad's botched car bombing attempt on May 1 was reported by good Samaritans.

He is scheduled to be arraigned on the indictment on Monday at the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan.