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NY Times Square evacuated after failed car bomb

hypocritexposer

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New York's Times Square evacuated after failed car bomb

Bomb squad working to dismantle bomb

NEW YORK — An apparent failed car bomb in a vehicle that was smoking and emitted a small "flash" caused police to evacuate New York's Times Square as bomb specialists worked to dismantle the device on Saturday night, Broadway's busiest night.

"This appears to be a car bomb that the bomb squad is in the process of dismantling," New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said. "We do not know the motive."

Browne said an NYPD mounted policeman spotted a box smoking in the back of the Nissan Pathfinder sport utility vehicle and that the popular tourist destination in the heart of Manhattan's Midtown was evacuated shortly after that.

A police source who asked not to be named said the device was a car bomb and it included three tanks of propane and two canisters of gasoline. He said police had not fully cleared the Pathfinder.

He would not say whether the incident was being treated as an act of terrorism.

New York authorities have remained on high alert for another attack since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in which hijacked airliners toppled the World Trade Center's twin towers.

Last year police said they thwarted a plot to bomb the New York subway system and arrested a number of suspects in a case that has led to some guilty pleas.

A New York Fire Department officer told Reuters the vehicle was found to contain explosives, gasoline, propane and burned wires and was being treated as a "failed device."

The officer, who did not give his name because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said a man was seen fleeing the car and that police had protectively evacuated several blocks in case there were other devices.

In Washington, FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said the Joint Terrorism Task Force has responded to the incident along with the NYPD.

A U.S. official, who asked not to be identified by name, said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was aware of the situation and was monitoring developments, but declined to comment further. The official said the New York Police Department was in charge of the investigation.

Times Square was eerily empty for several blocks on Saturday night, the busiest night of the week on the Great White Way as tourists and theater-goers watched from behind barricades as anti-terrorism units swarmed the scene.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Times+Square+evacuated+after+failed+bomb/2976639/story.html#ixzz0mkFZSr38
 

hypocritexposer

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Police in New York are investigating whether a car bomb in Times Square was targeted on the makers of the TV series South Park because of a controversial depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.


WASHINGTON (AFP) – An Internet video purportedly from Pakistani Taliban group, Tarik-e-Taliban, claimed responsibility for the car bomb attempt in Times Square in New York, the US monitoring service SITE said Sunday.

The group said the attempted attack was to avenge the killings of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri, the top two leaders of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, in an air and ground assault last month near the city of Tikrit, SITE said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100502/ts_alt_afp/usattacksnewyorkclaim
 

Steve

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NEW YORK — Police investigating a failed car bomb left in New York City's Times Square say they have videotape of a possible suspect shedding clothing in an alley and putting it in a bag.

The surveillance video shows a white man in his 40s taking off one shirt, revealing another underneath.


NEW YORK (AP) — Police investigating the failed car bomb left in Times Square have videotape of a possible suspect shedding clothing in an alley and putting it in a bag and found a substance that resembled fertilizer in the parked SUV, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sunday.

Kelly said officers were on the way to a Pennsylvania town to talk to a tourist who might have recorded the suspect on his video camera. The video shows a white man in his 40s taking off one shirt, revealing another underneath.

I guess this one will have to play out a bit... but so far... the finger is pointing at a white man in his 40s... who dresses in an alley..
 

hypocritexposer

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/01/times-square-bomb-investi_n_559905.html
 

Steve

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ungrateful swine... came over seeking freedom.. was given citizenship. a home loan.. and a good life.. then the swine throws it all away to leave soon after being granted citizenship to become a terrorist.. the first act should be to strip the swine of the citizenship he does not deserve...

A Pakistani admitted trying to detonate a bomb in New York's busy Times Square and receiving bomb-making training in a known Taliban and al Qaeda stronghold in Pakistan, U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6410CK20100504

seems it was not "home grown" at all.. cause America didn't raise this terrorist..
 
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