Flashpoint Exclusive: Video of Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad with Taliban Commander Hakimullah Mehsud

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Last Updated (Thursday, 22 July 2010 13:10) Written by Laith Alkhouri Thursday, 22 July 2010 00:00

Flashpoint Global Partners has released a previously unpublished video excerpt of a meeting between confessed Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad and the leader of the Pakistani Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud. During the undated video clip, Hakimullah and Shahzad are shown shaking hands and hugging, as Shahzad speaks in an overlaid audio track: "Today, along with the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud and under the command of Amir al-Mumineen Mullah Mohammed Omar Mujahid (may Allah protect him), we are planning to wage an attack on your side, inshallah." In a statement read out in U.S. federal court on June 22, 2010, Shahzad admitted to receiving "training [in Pakistan] to wage an attack inside the United States of America... How to make a bomb, how to detonate a bomb, how to put a fuse... I asked them [the Taliban] for some cash 'cause I only had - my cash was like $4,500 that I had with me when I was leaving, and I asked for some more cash because I had to do the whole operation here."