(Macleans-Canada) Adnan R. Khan - Faisal Shahzad, who was captured by U.S. authorities after leaving a powerful bomb in an SUV in the heart of Manhattan's tourist district, visited Pakistan in mid-June 2006 to receive training at a camp belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba in Kashmir, according to one of its senior commanders. The LeT was blamed for a vicious attack on Mumbai in November 2008 in which more than 160 Indians were killed. According to the commander at the LeT's main base in Dulai, Shahzad "was an eager recruit...very intelligent but also very intense, and driven to make his mark for the sake of Islam." "Shahzad came to us for training," he says. "He stayed with us for three months and we provided him with the basics. Then he went back to the U.S....We have thousands of recruits who come to us for training." "He wanted to do something big," the LeT commander recalls. "He wanted to be famous. For us, that was dangerous. We don't want attention brought to us, and we were worried that Shahzad's personal agenda would get him captured and bring the spotlight on us."
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