Torrorist Attack at Times Square

[Wild Cobra]

Good thing the detonator failed...

I wonder if this was a local kook liberal terrorist, or a foreign like Al-Qaeda.

Times Square cleared as suspected car bomb found

Besides what the article says, I did hear there was a failed detonator and the license plates did not belong to the SUV. I'm sure we will hear a little more soon.

[Wild Cobra]

Related article with more info:

Times Square evacuated by suspected car bomb

According to ABC News, inside the Nissan Pathfinder police found: Three propane cylinders, two five gallon jerry cans of gasoline, a canister of powder, electrical components and an alarm clock.

Police at the scene said, "It's the real deal."

Bomb techs from the FBI New York office were on scene with the NYPD Bomb Squad to aid in the investigation.

Thousands of tourists and theatergoers were cleared from the area because of the scare.

It started with a report of a vehicle fire around 6:35 Saturday night.

The vehicle was parked on 45th Street west of Broadway.

Witnesses said they heard an explosion, then saw smoke coming from the car.

"It was a boom and a puff of smoke," one man said.

"I saw people running, turning tables," Paula Delarrosa said.

A New York City firefighter told ABC News that the vehicle was smoking and also said he saw "a flash" from the back of the SUV. The firefighter said a "mini-explosion" occurred between 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

"The SUV was smoking. There was a flash and we put two and two together" and an evacuation was ordered, he said.

[Stringer_Bell]

Good thing the detonator failed...

I wonder if this was a local kook liberal terrorist, or a foreign like Al-Qaeda.

Times Square cleared as suspected car bomb found

Besides what the article says, I did hear there was a failed detonator and the license plates did not belong to the SUV. I'm sure we will hear a little more soon.

Kook liberal terrorist? In an SUV? Sounds like a gas guzzling tea partier to me.

PS: No one else finds it odd that all these half-assed terrorist plots are giant failures? I mean, thank God everyone is safe and no harm has come our way, but these terrorists are real ing idiots - how the did they get to us on 9/11?

[Wild Cobra]

but these terrorists are real ing idiots

That's why I think they're liberal kooks.

[Stringer_Bell]

That's why I think they're liberal kooks.

but don't the ones on the news we see getting caught come from those middle eastern countries with real crazy conservative religious laws?

[ChumpDumper]

According to Wild Cobra, all the successful terrorists are conservatives.

[DJ Mbenga]

man they are taking a while for this press conference to begin

[exstatic]

PS: No one else finds it odd that all these half-assed terrorist plots are giant failures? I mean, thank God everyone is safe and no harm has come our way, but these terrorists are real ing idiots - how the did they get to us on 9/11?

It takes brains to design and build a detonator that will work, not so many to learn MS flight simulator and overpower unprepared crews on planes that almost fly themselves. One hundred percent of planes driven into buildings will explode.

[ElNono]

I don't think it's been declared a terrorist attack yet. Last I read was that it was being considered as 'potentially being a terrorist attack', according to the head of the DHS.

[Bartleby]

There are so many security cameras at Times Square, I'd be amazed if they don't have images of the guy(s) who left the truck there.

[Sausage]

Cops: Possible suspects in Times Square car bomb include group behind 'South Park' threat

By Alison Gendar, Rocco Parascandola and Helen Kennedy
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Sunday, May 2nd 2010, 1:46 PM

Police hunting the man who parked a crude but powerful car bomb in Times Square are looking into a possible link to a "South Park" cartoon lampooning threats against depicting Mohammed.

No link has been established, but threats against the Comedy Central animators appeared on a New York Islamist Web site last week and police are aggressively looking for connections, sources told The Daily News.

The Nissan Pathfider, its engine running and hazards flashing, was parked Saturday night on W 45th St. right next to the Viacom Building at 1515 Broadway. Viacom owns Comedy Central.

The SUV was packed with propane, gasoline and fireworks and a rudimentary fuse had already been ignited.

Sharp-eyed vendors are being credited with alerting cops when they spotted the saving they alerted day when he saw smoke curling from the car at about 6:30 p.m.

The materials were primitive, but if the van had blown, officials said the inferno would have eclipsed the blazing lights of the Crossroads of the World.

"I think the intent was to cause a significant ball of fire," said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

"We are very, very lucky," said a police source.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the feds were taking it very seriously, treating it as "a potential terrorist attack."

"Right now, we have no information other than it is a one-off," she told ABC. "Nonetheless, we are alerting state and local law enforcement - everybody - to be on their toes."

The probe is in high gear. The "South Park" episode in question showed Mohammed speaking from inside a U-Haul trailer and wearing a bear costume.

RevolutionMuslim.com posted the warning that included a graphic photo of Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker murdered in 2004 for making do entary on violence against Muslim women.

"We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show," the posting said.

Comedy Central censored a follow up episode of the famously vulgar show, bleeping out out all references to Mohammed.

Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker were unhappy, noting that their message was "about intimidation and fear."

Meanwhile, the van's vehicle identification number was defaced, but detectives have been been able to decipher some characters, police sources said.

They also have lifted some fingerprints from the vehicle and traced its stolen Connecticut license plate to a junkyard called Kramer's Used Auto Parts in Stratford, Conn.

Surveillance videos reviewed so far caught the car heading west from 6th Avenue on 45th St., but missed the driver exiting. There are at least two dozen cameras on the block and police are looking for more videos.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c...#ixzz0mnU1CkYZ

source: NYDailyNews.com

[panic giraffe]

i think it was domestic.

"three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components"

[Nbadan]

MSNBC reports cameras captured a 'white guy in his forties' running from the vehicle...

...Probably the work of tea-baggers upset with Jon Stewart who works for Viacom nearby. Most likely led by Tucker Carlson. Looks like he's as good a bomber as a dancer.

[Nbadan]

Meanwhile,

A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit for yesterday's failed car bomb attack in New York City.

Qari Hussain Mehsud, the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, said he takes "fully responsibility for the recent attack in the USA." Qari Hussain made the claim on an audiotape accompanied by images that was released on a YouTube website that calls itself the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel.

The tape has yet to be verified, but US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal believe it is legitimate. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel on YouTube was created on April 30. Officials believe it was created to announce the Times Square attack, and Qari Hussain’s statement was pre-recorded.

LInk

Blah, Blah, Blah....

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Cops: Possible suspects in Times Square car bomb include group behind 'South Park' threat

The cops are wasting their time on that one or setting up a convenient fall guy. Maybe after this the government will give NYC the homeland security funds it deserves, right Mr. Bloomberg?

[panic giraffe]

if this was a foreign terrorist i would just be happy that they're so ty nowadays and can't even make their bombs right, but honestly i don't buy that. if a prius accelerates too much and runs into obama's caravan, then they would take credit for it. it's kinda sad, really.

the amateurishness of this smacks of a mcviegh wanna be minus the armed forces training.

friend of the hutatree i presume?

[Bartleby]

Considering how much experience the Taliban have blowing up cars, it seems odd that they would botch such a high profile attempt.

[boutons_deux]

WC accusing liberals of murder

Limbaugh accusing environmentalists of murder on the platform

both of you, GO YOURSELVES..

[panic giraffe]

i don't remember a liberal terrorist blowing up the Murr building.
i don't remember a liberal terrorist shooting george tiller in his church.
i don't remember a liberal terrorist blowing up the 16th st church.
do you want me to go on?

[spursncowboys]

I don't think it's been declared a terrorist attack yet. Last I read was that it was being considered as 'potentially being a terrorist attack', according to the head of the DHS.

If you go by napolitono, ft hood wasn't a terrorist act.

[ElNono]

If you go by napolitono, ft hood wasn't a terrorist act.

You disagree?

[LnGrrrR]

Terrorist attacks have to have specific motivations behind them. If they don't, they're not terrorist attacks.

[jack sommerset]

One of the suspects is a white dude in his 40's.

[jack sommerset]

Why have they not released the vidoe footage of the suspect. Instead they release a picture of a clock. They need to get the photo out there.

[DJ Mbenga]

seriously dude take the time to edit the the spelling. torrorist?