Lack of bomb-making skills suggest he was a 'C-Team' recruit
(NEWSER) - For a guy who supposedly trained with the Taliban, Faisal Shahzad seems to have been a pretty lousy bombmaker, and this ineptitude has puzzled investigators. While the Taliban field manual has detailed bomb-making instructions, the device Shahzad left in Times Square was amateurishly assembled and used the wrong components, Peter Grier writes at the Christian Science Monitor . "The apparent disconnect between his training and his performance" leads Grier to speculate on what it means. More»
