Would be Times Square bomber Shahzad gets life sentence
October 6th, 2010 - 6:00 pm ICT by ANINew York, Oct. 6 (ANI): Would be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad has been sentenced to life in prison, even as French Police announced the arrest of 12 men during a counter-terrorism operation across the Atlantic.
Those arrested were in turn connected to a British national and alleged co-conspirator killed by a US drone strike in Pakistan in September.
According to the Christian Science Monitor (CSM), the arrests in France followed an arrest of a French-Algerian in Italy.
Italian police then shared what they learned from that suspect with the French authorities.
This was followed by the drone strikes that killed the alleged German and British plotters in Pakistan followed the detention of another man by the authorities in Afghanistan.
According to the CSM, this points to a picture of unsuccessful would-be jihadis on the one hand, and the dramatically improved policing and intelligence sharing that Europe, the US, and other states have developed since 9/11.
In the US, Shahzad has been convicted for his crime, while the trial of four American Muslims who plotted to destroy a New York synagogue (using fake weapons supplied to them by the FBI in a sting operation) is in its closing stages.
Since the 2005 attack in London, Western law enforcement has been repeatedly successful in uncovering would-be attackers. (ANI)
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