<p><br /> A Pakistan-born American who has admitted to trying to set off a car bomb in Times Square said in a video taped before the failed attack it was to avenge the US war in Afghanistan.<br /> </p><p><br /> "This attack on the United States will also be a revenge attack for all the mujahideen," a man purported to be Faisal Shahzad said on the video aired by Al Arabiya television.<br /> </p><p><br /> "Eight years have passed since the Afghanistan war and you shall see how the Muslim war has just begun and how Islam will spread across the world," the man said.<br /> </p><p><br /> The man, wearing traditional tribal clothes and sitting with an assault rifle, praised as martyrs dead Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and Iraq-based al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in 2006, in the video which resembled footage made by suicide bombers.<br /> </p><p><br /> Shahzad, who was arrested before he could leave the United States, has pleaded guilty to attempting to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square in May.<br /> </p>
