Faisal Shahzad, a suspect in the failed car bombings in New York’s Times Square, was disappointed with the state of the Islamic world and trying to find ways to take the fight.
Two e-mails obtained by CNN to explain how mental turmoil U.S. citizen born in Pakistan.
“Everyone knows the current situation in the Islamic world,” he wrote in an e-mail that he sent to a large group of recipients in February 2006.
At that time, he has been in the United States during the six years, has received his MBA and worked as a financial analyst in Connecticut.
“Everyone knows how the Muslim countries came under pressure from the west. All people know the kind of insult to Muslims around the world confronted.”
E-mail continued: “It is no doubt today that we are Muslims, and followers of Islam were attacked and occupied by foreign infidel forces. The war has begun cross cartoons against Islam and our beloved Prophet PBUH as the war drums.”
Shahzad referring to the controversy in 2005 in which a Danish newspaper published satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that offended Muslims worldwide.
“Can you tell me how to hold back this feeling oppressed?” Shahzad said. “And how do how to fight back when the rockets fired at us so shed Muslim blood? In Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and elsewhere.”
E-mail both sent in April 2009 for a small group of recipients. At that time, Shahzad has officially become a U.S. citizen. In an e-mail, Shahzad laugh at an article written by a Muslim who has a more moderate view than him.
“If you do not have the right teacher, then Satan must be your sheikh,” according to some e-mail content to be translated.
CNN obtained an e-mail from Dr. Saud Anwar, a Connecticut physician who is active with the American Muslim Peace Initiative and also serves on the board of the FBI in multicultural diversity.
Anwar got it from one of the original recipients, and then provide a copy of the e-mail it to the FBI.
The FBI has interviewed at least one e-mail recipients. (FQ / cnn)

