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Karachi as well as a place to secretly meet with other different jihadi groups. so karachi provides for the taliban a great place to hide, a great place to get medical treatment, a good place to raise funds for the fight and apparently as well a good place to recruit more people for their war effort. >> i want to hear more about the pakistani-taliban, because shahzad's attempt is apparently their first attempt to attack within the united states. tell us more about this group. >> reporter: well, we know as well that they have tried to attack in spain, but this is the first attempt that we're aw...

We're also hearing tonight that shahzad is still speaking with u.s. investigators, and that's why he hasn't appeared in court. and today we learned the alleged assistance from the taliban included money. cnn has calculated the cost of this failed attack to be slightly less than $6,500. cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson has retraced shahzad's trail in pakistan and tonight he told me how karachi has become a hotbed for taliban recruiters. >> reporter: well, we know that these people, at least six people that were arrested last week, they've been in custody now five days of q...

And told me how karachi has become a hot bed for taliban recruiters. >> we know these people, at least six people arrested last week have been in custody now five days of questioning. i think one of the things you learn here in karachi is that the call ban have a strong presence here, not just the pakistani-taliban, but other jihadists groups. they have come together, respite from the frontline, come to escape the u.s. drone strikes. why can they come here? because they come from a part of the country where people with pashtuns, that's their ethnic background. there's a large pashtun community...

Recently. the taliban are using karachi to raise money, through kidnap and ransom and using karachi as well as a place to secretly meet with other different jihadi groups. karachi provides for the taliban a great place to hide, get medical treatment, great place to raise funds for the fight and a good place to recruit more people for their war effort. don? >> i want to hear more about the pakistani taliban, because shahzad's attempt is apparently their first attempt to attack within the united states. tell us more about this group. >> reporter: well, we know as well that they have tried to att...

Thethe taliban included money. the failed attack cost was less than $6, 500. cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson has retraced shahzad's trail in pakistan and how karachi is a hot bed for taliban recruiters. >> reporter: we now six people arrested last week have been in custody now five days of questioning. one of the things you learn here in karachi is the taliban have a strong presence here. not just the pakistani taliban but other jihadist groups. they have come to get respite from the front line, come to escape the u.s. drone strikes. they come from a part of the country ...