The 31 year old Faisal Shahzad has been sentenced moments ago in a Manhattan court room to life in prison for the attempted Time Square bombing in New York City on May 1st.

Faisal Shahzad had set up a bomb within a vehicle he had parked near Time Square, and subsequently abandoned. The bomb was made with gasoline, firecrackers, and propane, but never worked like it was intended to. He had plead guilty to all 10 counts of terrorism related charges on June 21st. Working with the Taliban in Pakistan, Shahzad had planned to set off another bomb in New york, but was arrested when his first bomb failed to detonate. At his sentencing he stated, “Brace yourself for the war with Islam. This is the first droplet of the flood that will follow. The past nine years, the war with Muslims has achieved nothing for the U.S. except it has awakened Muslims”.

The Case was U.S. v. Shahzad, 10-00928, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). Even though no one was harmed the US pushed for a life sentence which they got because the act was premeditated, and could have killed dozens of people.