Times Square car bomber details his chilling plot

SELF-CONFESSED terrorist Faisal Shahzad was so eager to tell how he plotted to kill Americans in Times Square he went to court with a prepared statement.

Times Square car bomber details his chilling plot

But US District Judge Miriam Cedarbaum refused to hear him read it, instead challenging the Pakistan-born American citizen to just say “what happened”.

In an unapologetic, matter-of-fact courtroom colloquy that followed, Shahzad offered chilling details about how he trained with the Pakistani Taliban to build bombs, then returned to the US to launch an attack that would avenge attacks on Muslims by US forces overseas.

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