Faisal Shahzad: "Islam will spread on the whole world and democracy will be defeated" - video courtesy of al-Arabiya
A video has emerged in which the man who attempted to set off a car bomb in New York defends his actions.
Faisal Shahzad says in the tape he is carrying out the Times Square attack as revenge for Muslim fighters, "oppressed and weak Muslims", and "martyrs".
The Pakistani-born US citizen has admitted all charges relating to the attempted attack on 1 May.
A petrol and propane bomb was left in a car but failed to ignite. Shahzad is due to be sentenced in October.
A street vendor saw smoke coming from the vehicle and alerted the police.
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I will take revenge on their behalf and I really wish that the hearts of the Muslims will be pleased with this attack”
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Shahzad was arrested two days later as he tried to take a flight to Dubai from New York's John F Kennedy airport.
In the video, broadcast on the al-Arabiya TV station, Shahzad refers to the US-led war in Afghanistan and to two Islamist leaders killed by US forces - Baytullah Mehsud and Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
"Eight years has passed by in Afghanistan and you will see that the Muslim war has just started," he says.
"This attack on the United States will also be a revenge attack for all the mujahideen... and the weak and oppressed Muslims, for example Baytullah Mehsud and Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi, and all the Muslims and Arabs that have been martyred.
"I will take revenge on their behalf and I really wish that the hearts of the Muslims will be pleased with this attack.
"Islam will spread on the whole world and democracy will be defeated... and the world of Allah will be supreme."