Shahzad: Bomb's failure was 'God's will,' report says

Times Square terror suspect Faisal Shahzad told investigators his bomb failed to detonate because it was "God's will," Fox 5 New York reported Thursday, citing an unnamed source.

Meanwhile, the New York Post reported that Shahzad, 30, the Pakistan-born U.S. citizen whom authorities claim has admitted to building the car bomb and leaving it near the corner of Seventh Avenue and 45th Street just before 6:30 p.m. on May 1, is "dying to know" what went wrong with his bomb.

The Post said a law enforcement source told them Shahzad, under guard at a Brooklyn hotel as federal agents continue to interrogate him, was surprised the homemade bomb didn't go off - and has begged investigators to tell him where he went wrong.

The source also told the Post that Shahzad fears for his safety because of the information he has given investigators.

Two days ago, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) told Newsday that Shahzad had studied other potential terror sites.

Shahzad, who was arrested May 3 aboard an Emirates airlines flight from Kennedy Airport to Dubai, "apparently made reference to other sites" during the course of his interrogation, King said.

Earlier in the day, Fox 5 New York, citing a source, said Shahzad had considered targets including Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, the World Financial Center across from Ground Zero and Connecticut defense contractor Sikorsky, which manufactures military helicopters - among them the fabled Blackhawk.

While King would not confirm specific target sites, he told Newsday: "Whether or not they're actually targets will become known as the investigation goes ahead."

A Pakistani army officer has been arrested in Islamabad because of alleged links to Shahzad, The Los Angeles Times reported. A senior commander with the Lashkar-i-Taibi, an outlawed Pakistani militant group, now claims that Shahzad received training from its organization during a stay in 2006, a Canadian magazine is reporting.

Another Pakistani Taliban group, the Tehkir-i-Taliban Pakistan, is said to have trained Shahzad at a terror camp in the Waziristan region of the country during a five-month visit in late 2009 and early 2010.

The Times Square bomb allegedly built by Shahzad was fashioned from gasoline, propane gas canisters, fertilizer and fireworks, investigators said.