NEW YORK, May 4 (Xinhua) -- A New York-based U.S. federal court on Tuesday charged the suspect in the failed car bombing in New York's Times Square with terrorism and mass destruction.

Charges against Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, were included in a criminal complaint filed in the federal court in Manhattan.

Shahzad was arrested Monday night as he was trying to leave the country on a flight.

Police stand guard in front of the federal court in Manhattan of New York, the United States, May 4, 2010. Accused New York Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad is on trial here on Tuesday. Faisal Shahzad admitted his involvement in the terror plot to U.S. FBI agents who arrested him late Monday at New York's JFK airport.

The complaint says he confessed to buying an SUV, rigging it with a homemade bomb and driving it Saturday night into Times Square, where he tried to detonate it.

The complaint says he admitted to receiving bomb-making training in Waziristan, Pakistan.