Mug shot of Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of plotting a car bombing in New York's Times Square.
NEW YORK – A Pakistani immigrant who tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison by a judge who said she hopes he spends time behind bars thinking "carefully about whether the Koran wants you to kill lots of people."
A defiant Faisal Shahzad smirked as he was given a mandatory life term that, under federal sentencing rules, will keep him behind bars until he dies.
"If I'm given 1,000 lives I will sacrifice them all for the life of Allah," he said at the start of a statement that lasted several minutes. "How can I be judged by a court that does not understand the suffering of my people?"...
[Full Article][Webmaster - Doesn't it seem odd that Shahzad was tried, convicted, and sentenced only 5 months after his stunt back in May, while there are still 176 "detainees" languishing at Gitmo, some after 8+ years without a trial. Why didn't the trial get much coverage while it was going on? Why wasn't it televised? Why was the trial itself so low-key when his arrest was hyped up so much? The government doesn't want the full story to get out or you might discover Shahzad was provocateured. They wanted to be able to control and manipulate the "show" trial from beginning to end, then use it for propagana purposes.]
