

Authorities executed search warrants relating to Faisal Shahzad's finances.
[Updated at 1:05 p.m.] A federal law enforcement tells Susan Candiotti that the FBI has also conducted search warrants related to the ongoing Times Square investigation at two locations on Eastern Long Island in Suffolk County, NY.
Suffolk County Police spokesman Tim Motz told CNN that officers from that department are assisting the FBI in the execution of these warrants. There have been no arrests.
[Updated at 12:19 p.m.] A third person has been arrested on immigration charges in Thursday's raids in the Northeast, a U.S. official told CNN.
[Updated at 12:08 p.m.] Prompt Printing, a printing shop in Camden, New Jersey, is among the targets of Thursday's raids by federal agents stemming from the investigation into this month's failed car bombing in Times Square, a federal law enforcement source said.
A federal source also says a home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey was raided and that it is believed to be the home of the print shop's owner.
[Updated at 11:41 a.m.] A source close to the investigation says the raids carried out this morning were focused on a system of “cash couriers” who bring money into the United States from overseas. Some of that money is thought to be made available to finance operations like the abortive Times Square attack. The source says the warrants for Thursday’s raids came as a result of the investigation into the Times Square incident, but it has not been determined conclusively if the alleged courier system under investigation is tied to that plot.
The source says two individuals have been under surveillance at least since Wednesday, but could not confirm that they were the individuals arrested today. The source says there is no direct evidence linking those under surveillance to the courier system, but they are being investigated for possible links. The source adds that Faisal Shahzad continues to provide information to investigators. [Updated at 11:23 a.m.] The search warrants being executed in the Northeast on Thursday are related to the probe of Faisal Shahzad's financing, a federal law enforcement source said.
The source said the locations may have been involved in transferring money to Shahzad, the suspect in the recent botched Times Square car bombing. However, there is no specific information to indicate any of the individuals at these locations knew about the Times Square bombing plot, the source said.
[Updated at 10:35 a.m.] A federal law enforcement source says that the two people taken into custody for alleged immigration violations have no direct bearing on the Times Square investigation. The arrests are described as "collateral.”
The two are from Pakistan, according to a U.S. official. One is a so-called "visa overstay." The other was in the process of being removed from
the United States, but had not yet been ordered removed, as he was attempting to adjust his status so that he could stay.
Both were picked up in Massachusetts, the official said, but he did not have more specifics. Both are being processed in Boston, the official said.
[Updated at 10:27 a.m.] Lt. Phillip Harrington of the Brookline Police Department confirmed to CNN that local police are assisting the FBI conduct a search warrant at a Mobile gas station on Harvard Street in Brookline.
[Updated at 10:00 a.m.] CNN affiliate WHDH in Boston is reporting search warrants were executed at a gas station in Brookline, Massachusetts and a home in Watertown, Massachusetts in connection with the Times Square attempted bombing earlier this month.
[Updated at 9:33 a.m.] A federal law enforcement source says that search warrants are being executed in Boston, New York, and New Jersey.
“We can confirm that search warrants have been executed in several locations in the Northeast in connection with the investigation into the attempted Time Square bombing," a Justice Department official told CNN. "Two individuals encountered during the searches were taken into federal custody for alleged immigration violations.
"At this time we can provide no further details as the investigation is ongoing. These searches are the product of evidence that has been gathered in the investigation subsequent to the attempted Times Square bombing and do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or active plot against the United States.”
[Posted at 9:21 a.m.] Investigators have executed search warrants in several places in the Northeast and detained two people in connection with the attempted Times Square car bombing probe, Boston FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said Thursday.
"They do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or any plot against the United States," Marcinkiewicz said.
She said two people have been taken into custody for "alleged immigration violations."


Here we go again.
Send them all back, we don't need illegal immigrants in this country anymore. If they want to stay, let them go through legal means.
hi – this terrorist is a naturalized citizen. not illegal! that is worrisome
I'm sorry, but I am STILL in shock that a Muslim tried to commit a terrorist act.
Radical islam is killing all over the world from Fort Hood to Darfur
If their entry into the country is a crime why would anyone in their right mind think that the criminal activity would stop there. Come on people wake up I know the liberals need more criminals here to vote their way on things but opeining the flood gates to criminals is not a good plan. Wake up America 911 was not an accident. Time Square was not a dream and the next one might be a nighmare. Id like to see the press start to cover in detail the crimes commited in Mexico on a daily basis and then maybe the American people can make informed decisions about leaving the gate open.
Guys dont forget the fact that we all were immigrant one time...lets try to make sure that our federal government takes some action against banning people from countries with al qaeda or terrorism link....but we should always welcome immigrant cause we are a country of opportunity and liberty...we should not make laws like Arizona ....
I thought the White House said it was just a loner guy terrorist? I wonder if these new arrests involve Muslims?
Check out all cab drivers in NY city. 90% of them are probably Pakistani and 99.99% of those Pakistani current have or will have activities related to terrorism.
Pakistani Muslims must leave this beautiful country of ours. They should go back to their own terror country.
Oh! please leave Islam out of this. I wonder if the O'Riley's and Hannity's of the world will associate Catholicism with Child molestation and pedophilia just as they associate terrorism with Islam? Think about it !
Anyone know the NJ location?
Yeah, all muslims are terrorists. Just like all Christians are like Jim Jones and David Koresh. Get a brain people.
if they are muslim you can bet their is a plot, there always is. We american been too relaxed, if 9-11 didn't wake you up then maybe we will have to wait till they set off a nuke in our country. We have to get rid of these parisites. They are nothing but child rapists and women beaters.
The Times Square terrorist is part of a big Pakistani gang, supported, trained and armed by ISI/military to commit terrorist acts in London, India and now here. President during his campaign in 2008 had promised to go after Pakistan if there is evidence that they harbor terrorists. Now, what is he waiting for?