Shahzad: I acted alone

A Connecticut man pulled off a plane bound for Dubai and arrested for Saturday’s night’s failed bid to set off a car bomb in Times Square has made statements implicating himself, and has told the authorities that he acted alone, a law enforcement official said on Tuesday morning…

While Mr. Shahzad said he had acted alone, law enforcement officials have said the investigation is, in the words of one, “very much ongoing,” and the F.B.I. agents and police detectives from the Joint Terrorist Task Force who arrested him have not developed evidence to either prove or disprove his claims. Charges against Mr. Shahzad were not announced, but he was expected to be charged Tuesday in federal court…

An official in Pakistan’s Interior Ministry said that Mr. Shahzad had come to Pakistan in April 2009 and departed on August 5 on an Emirates Airways flight. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Mr. Shahzad stayed in the port city of Karachi during that period.

A senior Pakistani security official whose organization works closely with American officials said the Americans had yet to share details of the case with Pakistanis. He said the investigation would depend on where Mr. Shahzad is believed to have traveled after reaching Pakistan. Some reports said Mr. Shahzad traveled to Peshawar, the gateway city to the country’s militant-controlled western border with Afghanistan.