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Updated 05/09/2010 05:31 PM

AG Holder: Pakistani Taliban Likely Behind Times Square Plot

By: NY1 News

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The nation's top prosecutor says the Pakistani Taliban was behind the failed Times Square car bomb plot.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows, saying confessed attacker Faisal Shahzad was apparently working for the militant group.

Holder also said the organization likely planned and financed the plot, and is becoming more capable to carry out attacks within U.S. borders.

"We certainly have seen with the Shahzad incident that they have not only the aim but the capability of doing that and that's why they've taken on I think a new significance in our anti-terror fight," Holder said.

Holder also said Pakistan's government is cooperating with the investigation, and there is no indication officials there knew of Shahzad's activities.

The Pakistani Taliban originally claimed responsibility for the attempted Times Square attack, but later said it had no ties to it.

Shahzad is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent.

He told investigators he spent five months in Pakistan where he received explosives training before returning to the U.S. in February.