Times Square Bomber Gets Life
The New York Daily News reports:
An unrepentant Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday morning for his failed Times Square car-bombing plot.
The Pakistani-born terrorist, speaking before learning he would die behind bars, warned Americans to "brace yourself" for future attacks.
"The defeat of the U.S. must and will happen in the near future," Shahzad declared, adding that the attacks were just Muslims defending themselves.
"If you call us terrorists for doing that, than we are proud terrorists," said Shahzad, wearing a white skull cap and a blue prison-issued outfit.
The sentence in Manhattan Federal Court came just five months after Shahzad parked an explosives-laden SUV on W. 46th St. in the Theater District - and tried to detonate the vehicle.
"You are a young man, and you will have a lot of time to reflect on what you have done and what you have said today," Federal Judge Miriam Cedarbaum said in handing down the life term.
The unusually quick terror case turnaround followed Shahzad's unrelenting admissions to his role in the plot to kill dozens of tourists and theater-goers on a Saturday night in May.
"I want to plead guilty and I'm going to plead guilty a hundred times forward," Shahzad said when entering his plea on June 21.
The one-time resident of suburban Connecticut, a married father of two, declared himself "a Muslim soldier."
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