Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad may face dreaded Colorado 'Supermax' prison

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Guard towers loom over the highest security area at the Federal Prison in Florence, Colo.

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The 'Supermax' prison may be Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad's new home.

WASHINGTON - Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad got to rant during his guilty plea about how much Americans deserve to die, but soon he'll be yelling at four cold, hard walls and a few fellow terrorist thugs.

The Taliban stooge's next home will likely be one of two federal penitentiaries that warehouse international terrorists. One is in Florence, Colo.; the other is in Terre Haute, Ind.

The worst of the worst are sent to Colorado's "administrative maximum" prison -- known as "Supermax" -- which is set amid bucolic mountains.

But Shahzad won't get a Rocky Mountain high. He would be housed in a tiny cell, allowed one hour of daylight a day and no communication with the press or public.

Ramzi Yousef, the 1993 World Trade Center bomber, renounced Islam there. Other Supermax inmates are "Unabomber" Theodore (Ted) Kaczinski, Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and Al Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui.

The Frenchman Moussaoui also loved ranting in court during his 2006 death penalty trial. When he was sentenced to life imprisonment, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema told the Osama Bin Laden protégé no one would ever hear his hate again.

"You came here to be a martyr and to die in a great big bang of glory. But, to paraphrase the poet T.S. Eliot, instead, you will die with a whimper," Brinkema said.

If Shahzad is shipped off instead to the “Communications Management Unit" in Indiana, he'll join lower-tier terrorists like the "Lackawanna Six" and Taliban foot soldier John Walker Lindh, who is halfway through a 20-year stretch.

The Terre Haute federal prison is where Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed.