Zakaria: Why Pakistan Keeps Exporting Jihad - Fareed Zakaria - Newsweek.com

Faisal Shahzad, the would-be terrorist of Times Square, seems to have followed a familiar path

Henrik Gøtke,

10/05/2010

Faisal Shahzad, the would-be terrorist of Times Square, seems to have followed a familiar path. Like many earlier recruits to jihad, he was middle-class, educated, seemingly assimilated—and then something happened that radicalized him. We may never be sure what made him want to kill innocent men, women, and children. But his story shares another important detail with many of his predecessors: a connection to Pakistan.