“We have proof that behind the bombing in Times Square there are the Pakistani Taliban.” , Said U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, the microphones of the ABC, stating that it is no involvement of the authorities in Islamabad. Also today, the Pakistani security forces arrested at the airport in Karachi a civil engineer in his shoes had batteries and an electric circuit. Faiz Mohammad, 30, was en route to Muscat, Oman, with Thai Airways. E ‘was stopped after the scanner has performed due to wiring that was in footwear. He said that is the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but lives in Karachi and was returning to Muscat where he worked for a construction company. According to Pakistani authorities electrical circuits contained in the shoes could be connected to a bomb to explode in flight.
“We know that the Pakistani Taliban Faisal Shahzad helped in every way, including financially and that he was working alongside them,” Holder said. Faisal Shahzad is the American citizen of Pakistani origin arrested as suspect number one for the failed attack on 7 May. John Brennan, assistant to the president Barack Obama, told CNN that when he returned to his home country Shahzad group working for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an organization connected to Al Qaeda, the Taliban. “For this reason – added Brennan – it seems very likely that they are responsible for the failed attack in New York.”
According to Holder by the Pakistani authorities were not aware of the terrorist activities of Shahzad. Yesterday, the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked about serious consequences if a future attack on the United States had happened and was reconnected to Pakistan.
In an interview with ABC, Holder has also intervened on a highly controversial and debated these days in the U.S., the legal protections for those suspected of terrorism. When making an arrest, the police are obliged to say the U.S. so-called “Miranda warning” the ritual formula made famous by the film Americans on the right not to answer questions and to get a lawyer. Now, just days after the capture of Shahzad, one wonders whether this rule should be observed also guaranteed in the fight against terrorism. Well, according to Minister of Justice, the Obama administration is available to reduce these guarantees. It ‘s the first time that a representative government opens on such a sensitive issue for American law.