A Pakistani-American's failed bid to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square is bound to raise fears that the United States is just as vulnerable to violence from immigrants as other Western countries.
Attacks on London's transport system in 2005 by four young suicide bombers, three of them of Pakistani descent, highlighted the danger of radicalisation among alienated young men from down-at-heel immigrant neighbourhoods in bleak British cities.
But there has been a sense that Pakistani immigrants to the United States were much better off economically and much more assimilated than migrants in Britain, and were thus far less likely to try to launch attacks at home.
That assumption will be shaken by Faisal Shahzad who was born in Pakistan, studied in the United States and became a naturalised U.S. citizen last year, Pakistani analysts said.
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