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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/09/times.square.suspect/
U.S. Says Pakistani Taliban Behind Times Square Bomb Plot
(CNN) Faisal Shahzad, charged in the failed Times Square bombing, was working with the Taliban in Pakistan, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday, telling NBC's "Meet the Press": "The evidence that we have now developed shows the Pakistani Taliban directed this plot....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." 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 U.S., Brennan said Sunday.