Reply #22: He supposedly received training in bomb making ...

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Peshawar and Lahore, Pakistan; New Delhi

Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the attempted New York City Times Square bombing, has told investigators that he had received bombmaking training in the Pakistani region of Waziristan.

Typically, such training takes place in camps tucked away in mountainous regions like Waziristan, protected by the rugged terrain and lack of government. It's not known yet at which camp Mr. Shahzad may have spent time.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0505/Where-in-Pakistan-did-Faisal-Shahzad-learn-bomb-making-skills

A similar incident happened in England in 2007.

Echoes of 2007 London attack in Times Square car bomb

An illegally parked car packed with propane gas cylinders and cannisters filled with petrol attached to a crude homemade detonator. That was Times Square, New York, last night. It was Haymarket, London, three years ago.

There are striking similarities between the attempted car bombing in New York and the failed attack on the Tiger Tiger nightclub in the West End three years ago. Details are still emerging from the US, but much is known about the London bombs.

The devices found in London in June 2007 had been an attempt to recreate the kind of explosions then common in Iraq. The rough thinking behind them is that the gas and petrol vapours are ignited by the detonator creating a huge fireball. The two Mercedes cars found in London had also been packed with nails and shrapnel to cause injure as many people as possible.

As in New York, passers-by and members of the emergency services played vital roles in spotting the danger in London - raising the alarm and clearing the area.

Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor, was convicted and jailed for the London bomb and the suicidal attack on Glasgow airport the following day which killed his accomplice Kafeel Ahmed.

Although it is still not known if the New York incident was al-Qaeda inspired or the work of America's extremist fringe, it also has echoes of the plans drawn up by the British terrorist Dhiren Barot. He travelled the world for years on behalf of al-Qaeda and as a messenger/scout for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/crime/2010/05/echoes-of-2007-london-attack-in-times-square-car-bomb.html

I don't believe that the teabaggers were around in 2007.

A Televised Birth of a Movement

CNBC's Rick Santelli is widely credited with launching the grassroots movement. While standing on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on February 19, 2009, he unleashed what can only be called a rant against the Obama Administration's proposal to help homeowners facing foreclosure refinance their mortgages.

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Santelli, however, can't claim credit as the sole mastermind of the movement. Prior to his appearance in Chicago, Keli Carender, a Seattle at-home mother also known as Liberty Belle, had been using her blog to get the word out about the populist "Porkulus Protest" she was organizing against President Barack Obama's proposed $750 billion stimulus package. About 100 people showed up for her event in mid-February. Similar events inspired by both Santelli and Carender, followed in quick succession in Denver; Mesa, Ariz.; Tampa, Fla.; and other cities. Tea Party organizers claim that the first nationwide Tea Party protest took place on February 27, 2009, with coordinated events occurring in more than 40 cities.
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html

We have had a lot of terrorists whose explosives have fizzled, including shoe bombers and underpants bombers.

Very Strange.