A widening jihad plot. “Pakistan makes arrests connected to NYC bomb attempt,” by Zeeshan Haider for Reuters, May 4 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani police arrested several people on Tuesday in connection with the failed Times Square car bomb attack in New York, security sources said.
“We have picked up a few family members” related to Faisal Shahzad, the chief suspect in the attempted attack, a security official in Karachi said. A friend of Shahzad was also arrested.
Shahzad, a 30-year-old Pakistani-American, was arrested late on Monday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after being removed from a plane as it was about take off for Dubai, U.S. officials said.
Another intelligence official in Pakistan said Shahzad received militant training in northwest Pakistan near the garrison town of Kohat. The area around Kohat is a stronghold of Tariq Afridi, the Pakistani Taliban commander in the region….