HOLDER USES THE WORDS – AT 9:42 A.M.. ET:  Attorney General Eric Holder blames the Pakistani Taliban for the failed Times Square bombing.  From Fox:

The Pakistani Taliban were behind the failed Times Square bomb attempt last weekend, top administration officials said Sunday.

Attorney General Eric Holder and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said the investigation has led authorities to believe that suspect Faisal Shahzad trained with the Taliban in Pakistan and was funded by them.

Brennan told "Fox News Sunday" that Shahzad had "extensive interaction" with the group, which he described as virtually "indistinguishable" from Al Qaeda.

"It looks as though he was operating on behalf of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan," he said. "This is a group that is closely aligned with Al Qaeda. It has a murderous agenda similar to Al Qaeda, they train together, they plan together, they plot together. They're almost indistinguishable."

New York law enforcement officials initially said they did not have evidence to support claims made by the Pakistani Taliban that they were responsible for the attempted attack.

COMMENT:  The administration should get its act together.  Several days ago Gen. David Petraeus said that the Times Square guy acted alone.  Maybe new information has come in.

If true we can probably expect more attempts by the Pakistani group to attack us here.  We can also expect more cries from the left to abandon our efforts in south Asia because they "create more terrorists."  They probably do, in the sense that all military action will create some additional resistance...until that resistance is broken.  It's in the nature of warfare.

May 9, 2010