Faisal Shahzad tried to detonate a bomb in his car in New York’s Times Square on May 1, 2010. He got his training, such as it was, in Pakistan. A more successful bomber was Ramzi Yousef; his detonation in the basement of the World Trade Centre in New York killed six people and injured more than a 1,000. Yousef trained in Pakistan.

So did Richard Reid who tried to light a bomb hidden in his shoe in the middle of a transatlantic flight in December 2001. Several of the suicide attackers who blew themselves up in the London, England subway in July 2005 (death toll 52) were taught their grim craft in Pakistan.

Terrorism Training Thrives in Dysfunctional State

So why is Pakistan the got-to place for terrorist school? Stanford University Professor Joel Brinkley says (McClatchy News Service, May 15, 2010) it’s because the country is basically a dysfunctional state. The government, he writes, “does absolutely nothing for its people, except require the payment of taxes and bribes. It offers virtually no social services…”

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