(Bloomberg-Washington Post) Chris Dolmetsch - Faisal Shahzad, who pleaded guilty last month to trying to explode a car bomb in New York's Times Square, says in a video that he planned the attack as revenge for the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Al-Arabiya television reported. Dressed in traditional tribal clothes and holding an assault rifle, Shahzad praises Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of al-Qaeda in Iraq. "You shall see how the Muslim war has just begun and how Islam will spread across the world," Shahzad said.
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