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The bomber failed to Times Square in New York was sentenced to life imprisonment and warned the United States be prepared "for war with Muslims has just begun."
The Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, 31, pleaded guilty in June by the May 1 attack on the famous New Yorker Times Square intersection, a bomb that failed to explode.
"Prepare for war with Muslims is just beginning," said the prisoner challenging the judge that issued the ruling Tuesday.
Shahzad entered the courtroom handcuffed and heavily guarded. Prisoner wore a black and white wearing a Muslim cap on his head.
"The U.S. defeat is imminent and will happen in the foreseeable future," he predicted, before warning: "You have watches, but we have time. We're going to beat the time."
Shahzad Faisal was accused of ten charges of leaving a vehicle with a homemade bomb inside the theater district of Manhattan.
The bomb did not explode and Shahzal was arrested on May 3 when he tried to escape towards Dubai Airport John F. Kennedy.
As reported by the prosecution, Shahzad then cooperated actively with the federal police in the investigation of the facts.
Shahzad had reached 18 years the U.S. and acquired U.S. citizenship in April 2009. Judge Miriam Goldman reminded of that fact during the hearing and the oath of allegiance meant.
"Have you paid no allegiance to this country?" He told the judge. "If I paid oath - said the condemned - but he was faking."
Goldman said the ruling applied - the maximum extent permitted by law for that matter - was responding to the need "to reflect the seriousness of the offense" and "protect the public from future crimes" like.
The judge said that the damned "repeatedly expressed his total lack of remorse." To the extent that Shahzad used the platform of the sentencing hearing for a claim of Jihad (holy war) against the United States.
"This brings me life," he lamented, but said he was willing to give "another 1,000 lives" for the same reason, as "the only valid opinion will be the day of resurrection." "Allah is great", he cried.
He said the Times Square attack - after it emerged he had also planned other action against the United States - was meant to avenge the American attack with "drone" in Pakistan.
The extremist had lived in the suburbs of New York, where he worked as a financial analyst and is married to an American who is also of Pakistani origin, with whom he had two children.
His attempt to attack and admitted to receiving support of the Taliban in Pakistan chilled U.S. relations with that country and fueled fears that other terrorists appear "made in USA."

Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, has said in the Senate that there is no data to support the conclusion that the Venezuelan government had knowledge that its territory could be carried out training of ETA, but added that the Executive ask Hugo Chávez increase cooperation in their view, had existed since the first signs appeared of relationship between the band and the Caribbean country last March.
   The minister has made clear that the Spanish Government gives "credibility" to the confessions of the two ETA members who admitted to the Civil Guard in 2008 had traveled to Venezuela to train at a training camp. "We believe there is sufficient evidence to suggest that actually occurred as well and do not doubt their credibility," explained Rubalcaba, but immediately afterwards he added that "this does not mean, because there is no proof or nothing that would not even imagine, that the Government had nothing to do with these workouts ETA in its territory. "
   "There is no data, no statement of any of these ETA to infer, inferred, or even suspect that the Venezuelan government had anything to do with it. This I want to make it clear," said the minister who, however announced that the Spanish Government has already requested "immediately to the Venezuelan government to investigate thoroughly whether this event took place and where possible participation of a Venezuelan citizen I am referring to Arturo Cubillas having a serious relationship with ETA."
   As mentioned, the Venezuelan government "has already said yes it will investigate and the Spanish Government has no doubt that he will do." "The collaboration of the Venezuelan government to fight ETA has improved substantially in recent months," he asserted.
CHAVEZ IN THE GOOD "ADDRESS"
   What we ask is that this cooperation has improved in recent months ETA increase to be hindered from doing any activity on Venezuelan soil, "insisted the minister who has expressed confidence that recent statements by President Chávez" go in that direction. "
   Rubalcaba has referred to last March when a judge of the Audiencia Nacional Eloy Velasco presented the first evidence of the relationship between ETA and the FARC under the auspices of the Chavez regime in Venezuela.
   Since that time long since been working with the Venezuelan government, although such things are reported more or less detail, but it is true that from the order of Judge Velasco strengthening of this collaboration and we publicly and it is true that since then they have passed a number of things in Venezuela that shows that the Venezuelan government is putting the batteries in this area, many, two or three things.
   In particular, the minister was referring to the arrest in March Walter Wendelin, who was arrested again last 27th in Vitoria as the delegate of 'Askapena' in Latin America or the registration of a plane in Caracas Lisbon from the risk of that he traveled the alleged ETA Oier Gomez.
   Thus interpreted the statements of the two ETA's' command Imanol 'as "a wake-up call that allows the Government of Venezuela to say' you have to work harder because this matter as saying the Spanish government is a matter that's there and it ETA true that for a while Venezuela has been a letup. "
   Moreover, the minister did not want to come to appreciate some words of Venezuela's ambassador to Spain who this morning has said that his Government had no doubt that ETA's confessions were not "completely voluntary", but later was refined his words clearing any allegation of torture.