if they had decided to strike back at us and found an individual who could get into the united states, this is the first example where the pakistani taliban have projected a threat into the homeland. here is an example of the blowback we have not seen before. the wall street journal, bear with me here, just reported background on faisal shahzad. said in december 1998, he was granted an f1 student visa. officials had no derogatory information on him. i am not familiar with southeastern university, but that is what the wall street journal is reporting. then transferred in 2000 to the university of bridgeport of connecticut and received a ba in computer science and engineering. in 2002, granted a for skilled workers. gained an mba.
we re talking about three people or four, for example, an internationally known terrorist group being part of this? at this point, i think i m going to say no more than what i have said in that regard. okay, thank you all very much. an interesting news conference there at the justixto department. there are still lingering questions, but some of the blanks have been filled back in about this suspect. ray kelly, the commissioner of new york city police department might have stolen the show there briefly from all these senior federal officials when he noted it was 53 hours, 20 minutes from the discovery of the vehicle to the arrest of the suspect as he (ç bower of 24 fame, but ray kelly thinks that 53-20 number is quite
alexander now in connecticut. peter, you ve been out there at the house which is still being searched by federal and local officials. what do they know about his family? reporter: it s a good question, andrea. we ve been here since before the sun rose this morning. investigators were here in the early morning. the local police, the fbi. they went into a house about nine houses down on the left side of this block back here in bridgeport. we were going to get our first chance to walk up to the home in a matter of minutes. that s when agents say they will clear the scene. we have seen them remove evidence. they describe it as possible evidence that has been taken away to a vehicle with six fbi agents. now, there is a second home where faisal shahzad had been living in the past. before that, for three or four years.
times square had a license plate from another vehicle. the vin number on the dashboard had been removed. the break in this case took place when the new york city detective was able to go under the vehicle and get the hidden vin number. um identified record who in turn as we know sold it to the suspect who drove it right into heart of times square. now, this is deja vu because the world trade center attack in 1993 had similar set of facts where a detective was able to get the vin number÷o off the rr truck that had exploded there and recall, the bombers were arrested when they returned to get their deposit. but they would have been no engine block to examine if it wasn t for the heroic work of the new york city bomb squad
meets the road, the execution part of it is where the incompetence came out. you also mentioned, andrea, something that s already gaining a lot of talk on the web today. and this issue about mirandizing the suspect. let s run over to the white house to white house correspondent savannah guthrie. san van na, here we are again. the obama administration is going to be under a microscope not only for handling of the case so far, but then the kind of new chapter of close inspection. justice system handling of the suspects after the cuffs are put on. reporter: no question about it. i think it s impossible to look at this case without looking at it through the prism of thes,+e we just experienced umar farouk abdulmutallab in december. he was a foreign-born person who flew into this country and was criticized wsh the administration was, because he was mirandized so soon.