From New Citizen to Suspect in a Year

WSJ Ms. Thurman paid $5 for four pillows—"a steal," she said. Then her neighbors were gone. She didn't know where they went. The house has sat empty since then, she said. "He was a little weird," she said. "I didn't know he was that damn weird." Other real-estate brokers and a lawyer who worked with Mr. Shahzad described him as soft-spoken, well-dressed and intelligent, but very reserved." If he was poor, how'd he pay for those plane tickets and the bomb implements? Shahzad reserved his seat on the way to the airport and paid in cash.