The man charged in the failed Times Square bombing was working with the Taliban movement in Pakistan, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday."The evidence that we have now developed shows the Pakistani Taliban directed this plot," Attorney General Eric Holder said, describing the investigation into suspect Faisal Shahzad during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press.""We know that they helped facilitate it, we know they helped direct it, and I suspect we're going to come up with evidence that shows they helped to finance it," Holder said.
John Brennan, the assistant to the president for counterterrorism and homeland security, told CNN's "State of the Union" that the Pakistani Taliban -- also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban, or TTP -- is closely allied with al Qaeda. The group has pledged to carry out attacks outside of central Asia, including the United States, Brennan said Sunday.
Shahzad has been charged in the May 1 attempted bombing in Times Square.
He was arrested while trying to fly out of New York on Monday night, two days after he allegedly attempted to set off a car bomb in Times Square. The bomb failed to detonate.
It was the second case in the past six months of a bungled terrorist attack in the United States, following the failed bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.
Brennan said U.S. counterterrorism efforts had degraded the ability of groups such as al Qaeda and the Taliban to launch successful attacks.
"They're trying to find vulnerabilities in our defenses," Brennan said, noting the attempts have been "unsophisticated."
Shahzad, a Pakistani-American, had traveled to Pakistan several times in recent years, Brennan said.
"He was captured by the murderous rhetoric of al Qaeda and TTP," Brennan said of the suspect.
Preventing attacks by individuals, especially American citizens such as Shahzad, is a "very difficult challenge," Brennan said.
The case raised new questions about whether terrorism suspects should be read the Miranda warning that advises them of their rights to remain silent and obtain legal representation. Critics have accused the Obama administration of losing interrogation opportunities by giving Miranda warnings to terrorism suspects, including the alleged Christmas Day airplane bomber and Shahzad.
Brennan said Shahzad was interrogated for four hours under an exclusion to the Miranda warning involving public safety. Authorities then advised Shahzad of his rights, as required by law, Brennan told the "Fox News Sunday" program.
"It did not impede our ability to continue to acquire very important intelligence from him," Brennan said. "It was, I think, a very good example that law enforcement, operating within ... the existing system, were able to leverage the opportunities that they had to get this information."
Also on the Fox program, Republican Rep. Peter King of New York argued a change in the Miranda warning was necessary.
"If there's another 10, 15, 20 plots out there, that to me is more important to get all the intelligence we can on that," King said. "So I think we may have to work on revisions."
One idea, King said, would set up "separate system of justice dealing with American citizens who are allied with a foreign army or a foreign enemy."
Holder also said Sunday that he was considering possible changes to the Miranda warning. Asked whether international terrorism made the current Miranda warnings too limited, Holder told the ABC program "This Week" that some adjustment may be necessary.
The system is working so far, Holder said, but "we also want to ... make determinations as to whether or not we have the necessary flexibility, whether we have a system that can deal with the situation that agents now confront."
"We're now dealing with international terrorism," Holder said, adding that his department would work with Congress "to come up with a proposal that is both constitutional, but that is also relevant to our time and the threat that we now face."shines down to us
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Nash, Suns Finally Get Past Their Rivals
It didn't matter that Two-Time, as teammates call Steve Nash because of those two MVP trophies back home, was down to one functioning eye.It didn't matter that the Phoenix Suns' double-digit lead vanished almost as soon as Nash left the floor to get six stitches to close a deep cut.It didn't matter that the San Antonio Spurs would also hit the Suns with a four-point play in the final minute, which only added to the here-we-go-again dread that even Nash couldn't completely fend off -- when he wasn't arching his eyebrows as high as he could during stoppages in play in an unsuccessful attempt to keep that right eye open.
Nash and the Suns survived it all on this bloody Sunday night. They weathered Tim Duncan's inadvertent elbow to Nash's face on a drive and every last ounce of the San Antonio's old desert-haunting mojo, pulling out a 107-101 victory in a sweep-sealing Game 4 that somehow generated the tension of a Game 7.
When he finally made it to the postgame podium, with his eye swollen completely shut and his eyelid unmistakably (and fittingly) purple once you got up close to him, Nash cracked: "Do we need to even say anything?"
The implication was clear. Nash couldn't see his audience too well, but he figured everyone in the room had a fair idea of what it meant for the Suns to complete a 4-0 brooming of their longtime playoff tormentors, after San Antonio KO'd Phoenix from the postseason four times in a six-season span from 2003-08.
You've also surely heard that six of Nash's previous 13 seasons ended with a loss to the hosts. That should help explain why Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, Duncan and finally Spurs legend David Robinson, spilling onto the floor from his courtside seat, looked legitimately happy for Nash during the postgame exchange of hugs.
"I couldn't be happier for a class, class, class guy," Popovich said. "I hate him, but he's classy."
Said Nash: "Fortunately someone was smiling on us tonight."
That's true to some degree. Unlike the unforgettably bloody nose he suffered in crunch time of Game 1 of the teams' 2007 epic series, Nash had the good sense to get nailed in the third quarter this time, giving the Suns' training staff sufficient time to sew up this gash and set him up to return for the whole fourth quarter.
In this series, though, these Suns consistently earned a good slice of their fortune, repeatedly proving -- despite the absence of injured center Robin Lopez -- that they're tougher, deeper and more legit defensively than any of the teams San Antonio tortured throughout the previous decade. Phoenix failed to score 20 points in the first quarter in both games in San Antonio and still managed to creep past 100 in both cases, finishing off this improbable sweep of a team that had just dumped No. 2-seeded Dallas with a vintage display of two-man dominance from the Suns' longest sufferers.
Nash (10 points, five assists) and Stoudemire (12 points) combined for 22 of the Suns' 35 points in the final period, despite vintage San Antonio pressure on the ball in the backcourt and the rather limited peripheral vision that admittedly had Nash "pretty worried" when he first went back in. It was the famously steady Duncan, meanwhile, who committed a bad fifth foul out of frustration with nearly six minutes to play in regulation and finished a fatal 16-for-34 from the free-throw line for the series.
Stoudemire wound up with 29 points, Nash totaled 20 points and nine assists and Jared Dudley emerged as the latest difference-maker off the Phoenix bench, contributing 16 points and six boards on near-perfect shooting.
"As you can see," Dudley said, "it's a different [Suns] team and a different year."
Nash believes it, too, but admits that his confidence was briefly shaken after taking the hit from Duncan with 5:52 to go in the third, after which Phoenix quickly surrendered the final seven points of its seemingly comfortable 64-53 lead.
"We'd gone 3 1/2 games with clear sailing," Nash said, explaining why he initially assumed the worst while being worked on in the Suns' locker room.
Then Nash caught himself, realizing he was falling prey to "something always happens against San Antonio" thinking that could easily spread to less-experienced teammates.
Here-we-go-again pity, Nash concluded, is "just a self-fulfilling prophecy."
So he came back and flourished, offering up a decent facsimile of the 36-year-old who shredded the Spurs for 33 points and 10 assists in a tone-setting Game 1. The Spurs responded with plenty of their trademark toughness -- Tony Parker, for example, had to get a pre-game painkiller shot in his posterior to deal with his sore shoulder and back after multiple falls in Game 3 -- but couldn't prevent their 15th successive loss in the playoffs when surrendering 100 points.
"It just hard to guard those guys -- for us to guard them -- for 48 minutes," Popovich said. "You have to be pretty perfect. We have to be pretty perfect."
It proved too much to ask. The Spurs quietly managed to hold Jason Richardson under 20 points for the third successive game -- well aware that Phoenix is 30-4 this season when Richardson gets to 20 -- and still couldn't avoid the sight of a joyous Stoudemire, walking off the podium as Nash was heading for the microphone, to make a giddy joke about his own eye issues last season.
"Two-Time with the Stoudemire vision," Amare said to his point guard.
For once they're leaving this town with a laugh ... along with an endorsement from Duncan about their chances of surprising the mighty Lakers next.
None of this was expected back in October when the Suns convened for training camp, or even as recently as February when Stoudemire was nearly dealt before the trading deadline. Now?
The Suns are on a 36-9 roll since Jan. 26. And it certainly can't hurt Nash, Lopez or Grant Hill -- reincarnated at 37 as a defensive stopper -- that the Suns' trip to the conference finals probably won't start for another week.
"The way they're playing," Duncan said, "they have a chance against anyone." Whatever happens,happens for a reason
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Nash and the Suns survived it all on this bloody Sunday night. They weathered Tim Duncan's inadvertent elbow to Nash's face on a drive and every last ounce of the San Antonio's old desert-haunting mojo, pulling out a 107-101 victory in a sweep-sealing Game 4 that somehow generated the tension of a Game 7.
When he finally made it to the postgame podium, with his eye swollen completely shut and his eyelid unmistakably (and fittingly) purple once you got up close to him, Nash cracked: "Do we need to even say anything?"
The implication was clear. Nash couldn't see his audience too well, but he figured everyone in the room had a fair idea of what it meant for the Suns to complete a 4-0 brooming of their longtime playoff tormentors, after San Antonio KO'd Phoenix from the postseason four times in a six-season span from 2003-08.
You've also surely heard that six of Nash's previous 13 seasons ended with a loss to the hosts. That should help explain why Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, Duncan and finally Spurs legend David Robinson, spilling onto the floor from his courtside seat, looked legitimately happy for Nash during the postgame exchange of hugs.
"I couldn't be happier for a class, class, class guy," Popovich said. "I hate him, but he's classy."
Said Nash: "Fortunately someone was smiling on us tonight."
That's true to some degree. Unlike the unforgettably bloody nose he suffered in crunch time of Game 1 of the teams' 2007 epic series, Nash had the good sense to get nailed in the third quarter this time, giving the Suns' training staff sufficient time to sew up this gash and set him up to return for the whole fourth quarter.
In this series, though, these Suns consistently earned a good slice of their fortune, repeatedly proving -- despite the absence of injured center Robin Lopez -- that they're tougher, deeper and more legit defensively than any of the teams San Antonio tortured throughout the previous decade. Phoenix failed to score 20 points in the first quarter in both games in San Antonio and still managed to creep past 100 in both cases, finishing off this improbable sweep of a team that had just dumped No. 2-seeded Dallas with a vintage display of two-man dominance from the Suns' longest sufferers.
Nash (10 points, five assists) and Stoudemire (12 points) combined for 22 of the Suns' 35 points in the final period, despite vintage San Antonio pressure on the ball in the backcourt and the rather limited peripheral vision that admittedly had Nash "pretty worried" when he first went back in. It was the famously steady Duncan, meanwhile, who committed a bad fifth foul out of frustration with nearly six minutes to play in regulation and finished a fatal 16-for-34 from the free-throw line for the series.
Stoudemire wound up with 29 points, Nash totaled 20 points and nine assists and Jared Dudley emerged as the latest difference-maker off the Phoenix bench, contributing 16 points and six boards on near-perfect shooting.
"As you can see," Dudley said, "it's a different [Suns] team and a different year."
Nash believes it, too, but admits that his confidence was briefly shaken after taking the hit from Duncan with 5:52 to go in the third, after which Phoenix quickly surrendered the final seven points of its seemingly comfortable 64-53 lead.
"We'd gone 3 1/2 games with clear sailing," Nash said, explaining why he initially assumed the worst while being worked on in the Suns' locker room.
Then Nash caught himself, realizing he was falling prey to "something always happens against San Antonio" thinking that could easily spread to less-experienced teammates.
Here-we-go-again pity, Nash concluded, is "just a self-fulfilling prophecy."
So he came back and flourished, offering up a decent facsimile of the 36-year-old who shredded the Spurs for 33 points and 10 assists in a tone-setting Game 1. The Spurs responded with plenty of their trademark toughness -- Tony Parker, for example, had to get a pre-game painkiller shot in his posterior to deal with his sore shoulder and back after multiple falls in Game 3 -- but couldn't prevent their 15th successive loss in the playoffs when surrendering 100 points.
"It just hard to guard those guys -- for us to guard them -- for 48 minutes," Popovich said. "You have to be pretty perfect. We have to be pretty perfect."
It proved too much to ask. The Spurs quietly managed to hold Jason Richardson under 20 points for the third successive game -- well aware that Phoenix is 30-4 this season when Richardson gets to 20 -- and still couldn't avoid the sight of a joyous Stoudemire, walking off the podium as Nash was heading for the microphone, to make a giddy joke about his own eye issues last season.
"Two-Time with the Stoudemire vision," Amare said to his point guard.
For once they're leaving this town with a laugh ... along with an endorsement from Duncan about their chances of surprising the mighty Lakers next.
None of this was expected back in October when the Suns convened for training camp, or even as recently as February when Stoudemire was nearly dealt before the trading deadline. Now?
The Suns are on a 36-9 roll since Jan. 26. And it certainly can't hurt Nash, Lopez or Grant Hill -- reincarnated at 37 as a defensive stopper -- that the Suns' trip to the conference finals probably won't start for another week.
"The way they're playing," Duncan said, "they have a chance against anyone." Whatever happens,happens for a reason
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