Attempted carbomb in Times Square

[01cobravortech]

or maybe it was just a propane/fireworks salesman that had to run to the bathroom and left the truck running and slipped on his urine and got knocked unconscious. Got amnesia and doesn't remember a thing......

:lol::lol::lol: That's another possibility.

 

[97desertCobra]

Bomb maker was an idiot. Dual prime every time and you shouldn't have to worry about a misfire. Also why strap the fireworks to the gas cans? It would have been more effective against the propane tanks. Hell he could have shot at the propane tanks with a gun and it would have set off the rest. Low grade home grown terrorist. I wouldn't be suprised if it was from the Al Queda though. Seems they have not had a lot of success lately when it comes to terrorist attacks, thank God.

 

[SNCBOOM]

seems to simple for them, not a very high end bomb to say the least, I would assume it would not do the type of damage they normally like to incur from conventional bombs

I'd have to agree. Why they would claim the attack as theirs...well who knows. To get exposure and to "terrorize" probably. Either way, thankfully no one was hurt.

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[jerrad]

Bomb maker was an idiot. Dual prime every time and you shouldn't have to worry about a misfire. Also why strap the fireworks to the gas cans? It would have been more effective against the propane tanks.

Sapper school at work? lol

 

[WireEater]

Probably another wacked out, right winged nut job complaining about his taxes.

 

[chrisheltra]

10$'s says that a Medeng bomb suit.

 

[97desertCobra]

Sapper school at work? lol

LOL! Sappers lead the way!

 

[FL-Orange]

Suspect in custody.

Times Square bomb suspect caught at airport - Security- msnbc.com

Times Square bomb suspect nabbed at airport
Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was attempting to fly to Dubai from JFK

May 4: Authorities arrest Connecticut man in connection with attempted bombing in New York City. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
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NEW YORK - Authorities arrested a U.S. citizen in connection with the failed bombing attempt in New York's Times Square as he tried to leave the country, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday.

Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested at 11:45 p.m. ET Monday night by Customs and Border Protection agents as he attempted to board an Emirates airlines flight to Dubai at New York's JFK airport, officials said.

"It is clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans," Holder said.

Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Pakistan, was accused of driving a car bomb into Times Square, authorities said. He will appear in Manhattan Federal Court later Tuesday.

Holder said the investigation was ongoing and that law enforcement officials had gathered "significant additional evidence." He urged Americans to remain vigilant.

"The American people should know that we are deploying every resource available and we will not rest until we have brought everyone responsible to justice," Holder said.

Trip to Pakistan
Earlier, officials told The Associated Press that the suspect recently returned from a trip to Pakistan, where he has a wife. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the case was at a sensitive stage.

Pakistani police told NBC News that Shahzad was a resident of Karachi and that he had flown from the U.S. to the city on July 3, 2009, before returning to the U.S. on August 8 last year. On both occasions he flew with Emirates airlines, police said.

Faisal will face charges "for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1," according to a statement by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, FBI agent George Venizelos and New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Shahzad was being held in New York and couldn't be contacted. He has a Shelton, Conn., address and a phone number listed there wasn't in service. Investigators were searching his home.

At Shahzad’s former home in Shelton, Conn., just outside Bridgeport, a neighbor told The New York Times that Shahzad and his wife, Huma Mian, spoke limited English, and kept mostly to themselves. The couple had two young children, a girl and a boy, said the neighbor, Brenda Thurman.

Worked on Wall Street?
Thurman told the newspaper that the couple had lived at the house at 119 Long Hill Avenue for about three years before moving out last year. Shahzad left around May, she said, and his wife followed about a month later. The house was a gray, two-story, Colonial-style three-bedroom built in 2003, according to the real estate site trulia.com.

Shahzad got up early every morning and left to work nicely dressed, and had told her that he worked on Wall Street, Thurman told the Times. "I think he caught the train to New York," she said.

Law enforcement officials said Shahzad bought the SUV, a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder, that was parked in Times Square on Saturday from a person in Connecticut three weeks ago. NBC News reported he paid $1,300 in cash for the vehicle, which had been advertised on website Craigslist.

NBC News earlier reported the suspect's name was on an e-mail that was sent to the car's seller last month.

In Bridgeport, the seller refused to answer questions put by the Times. "You can't interview her," said an unidentified man at the woman’s white clapboard house. "She already talked to the FBI."

A man in his 40s who was seen in a security camera video apparently walking away from the SUV was initially a focus of the investigation.

But the New York police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, told the Times that while investigators still wanted to speak to that man, he might not be connected to the failed bombing. Paul J. Browne, a spokesman for the department, told the paper: "It may turn out that he was just somebody in the area, but not connected with the car bomb."

A metal rifle cabinet placed in the SUV's cargo area was packed with fertilizer, but NYPD bomb experts believe it was not a type volatile enough to explode like the ammonium nitrate grade fertilizer used in previous terrorist bombings.

However, police said it could have produced "a significant fireball" and sprayed shrapnel with enough force to kill pedestrians and knock out windows.

'Rube Goldberg contraption'
James M. Cavanaugh, a former bomb expert with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who investigated car bombs and tracked the Unabomber, told The New York Times that the device and the way it was designed speak to a "grandiose purpose."

"I call this a Rube Goldberg contraption," Cavanaugh told the newspaper. "It's the 'swing-the-arm-with-the-shoe-that-hits-the-ball-and-knocks-over-a-stick-that-knocks-something-off-a-shelf' and it is all supposed to work."

He said that whoever made the bomb had "more desire than ability."

The Times also reported that Kevin B. Barry, an official with the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, said the attempted bomber had left many leads for detectives to follow.

“He was trying to cover his tracks, but he left more clues than a guy walking into a bank to rob it without a mask. This guy left everything here but his wallet," Barry said.

Chris Falkenberg, president of Insite Security, which works with Fortune 500 companies, said the device, as described by authorities, "doesn't differ much at all from 'The Anarchist Cookbook'" — the underground 1971 manual for homemade explosives.

He said revelations that the fertilizer used could not have exploded suggested "this is amateur hour. My kids could build a better bomb than this."

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg early Tuesday thanked law enforcement officials, saying that their "focused and swift efforts led to this arrest after only 48 hours of around-the-clock investigation. I hope their impressive work serves as a lesson to anyone who would do us harm."

The Washington Post reported Monday that an FBI-led terrorism task force had taken over the investigation because of indications it was connected to international terrorism, a senior law enforcement source said.

The probe had been overseen by the New York Police Department. Responsibility for it shifted to a Joint Terrorism Task Force as Obama administration officials said the incident increasingly appears to have been coordinated by more than one person in a plot with international links, the Post reported on its website.

A senior White House official told NBC that President Barack Obama was briefed six times yesterday about the investigation and was notified of Shahzad's arrest at 12:05 am Tuesday.

The Taliban in Pakistan said Sunday it planted the bomb to avenge the killing in April of al-Qaida's two top leaders in Iraq as well as U.S. interference in Muslim countries.

Some officials voiced skepticism about the claim. But former CIA analyst Bruce Riedel, who last year oversaw an Obama administration strategy review on Afghanistan and Pakistan, cautioned against dismissing a possible role by the Taliban.

"They have said they want to attack inside the United States," he said before the arrest was announced, adding there was "a very serious possibility" the incident involved "some Pakistani-American who has never built a car bomb before in his life but who is being coached either by phone or internet."

In Pakistan, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said authorities had not been formally asked for help in the probe. "When the request comes, we will cooperate with the U.S. government," he told the AP.

The location of the bomb suggests a number of possible targets. The SUV was parked near offices of Viacom Inc., which owns Comedy Central. The network recently aired an episode of the animated show "South Park" that the group Revolution Muslim had complained insulted the Prophet Muhammad by depicting him in a bear costume.

The date of the botched bombing — May 1 — was International Workers Day, a traditional date for political demonstrations, and thousands had rallied for immigration reform that day in New York.

Security had been also been tight in the city in advance of a visit to the United Nations by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a nuclear weapons conference.

And the area, lined with Broadway theaters and restaurants, was full of people out on a Saturday night.

The vehicle was captured on video crossing an intersection at 6:28 p.m. Saturday. Vendors pointed out the Pathfinder to police about two minutes later. Times Square was shut down for 10 hours.

Obama telephoned handbag vendor Duane Jackson, 58, of Buchanan, N.Y., on Monday to commend him for alerting authorities to the smoking SUV.

The White House said Obama thanked Jackson for his vigilance and for acting quickly to prevent serious trouble.

 

[black4vcobra]

Ugh....$20 says that in the next few days information surfaces that this guy, Faisal Shahzad, has a history of being involved in "anti-American, Muslim radical groups"

Yes, I just racially profiled...

 

[FL-Orange]

Ugh....$20 says that in the next few days information surfaces that this guy, Faisal Shahzad, has a history of being involved in "anti-American, Muslim radical groups"

Yes, I just racially profiled...

Maybe he was influenced by SouthPark....

Any of these ****ers should be put in a prison and treated in prison equal to the shithole country they come from.

 

[black4vcobra]

Maybe he was influenced by SouthPark....

Any of these ****ers should be put in a prison and treated in prison equal to the shithole country they come from.

That's what the media is going to say, Southpark set this guy off.

You know he won't get what he deserves. Just like the 911 attackers, and the Fort Hood shooter, he'll get trial in a civilan court and will probably have a public defender. He'll be incarcerated in seclusion from other inmates until he is convicted, which could take a few years.

Why again is it that we aren't allowed to torture people that we believe to have connections to organized terror groups?

 

[CobraBob]

And why does it take forever to try these people? In many countries the trial starts within a week and a conviction/acquittal shortly thereafter. Punishment comes quick as well. Case in point right here in town. Two scumbags murdered a mother and her two daughters (burned the daughters after they tied them to a bed) on July 23, 2007. That is just about 3 years ago. They left the father/husband, a doctor, for dead but he escaped. They're still choosing a jury and the rights of the accused have been given a higher priority than the rights of the victims. And we taxpayers are footing the bill. If this same thing happened in most other countries the trial would be over by now and the murderers executed. Rant off!

Back to the the Pakistani who got arrested. I genuinely hope his trial is quick....to send a message to the terrorists who are likely behind his act. That crimes like this will be given a high priority and resolved quickly.....and a trial/conviction/punishment will be just as swift. The reality is that as mentioned above, any trial will likely be years down the road. :nonono:

 

[!!!PainTrain!!!]

Atleast they caught the guy!



Also, I'm sure my other MW2 friends will comment on the Karachi part LMAO

 

[Mikeyb619]

Also, I'm sure my other MW2 friends will comment on the Karachi part LMAO

I knew that sounded familiar....

 

[SolarYellow]

And why does it take forever to try these people?

Google the name George Emil Banks.

The piece of filth murdered 13 people (a few were his own children) and was found guilty and then sentenced to death 27 years ago. He's still alive today because lawyers are fighting the death penalty by saying he is crazy. He should have been burning in hell the morning of Sept 26, 1982. Between the lawyers and Banks, I can't determine the bigger piece of crap.

Back to the the Pakistani who got arrested.

Wow! What a shock! Someone born in Pakistan attempting to kill Americans? I would have assumed it would have been a disgruntled Polish guy or a crazy Russian and never someone from the middle east.

 

[99BOSS]

Yeah, no doubt. Thats it! Time for profiling to kick in. If your a middle eastern male, 18-35, you're not allowed in this country anymore. Tough cookies. I like how the pakistani branch of the taliban immediately claimed this bomb was theirs. Why would you be so proud to claim a bomb made of crap out of the garage and it just fizzled. That and this guy they caught seems like a dumbazz too.

 

[Dr. Gonzo]

Case in point right here in town. Two scumbags murdered a mother and her two daughters (burned the daughters after they tied them to a bed) on July 23, 2007. That is just about 3 years ago. They left the father/husband, a doctor, for dead but he escaped. They're still choosing a jury and the rights of the accused have been given a higher priority than the rights of the victims. And we taxpayers are footing the bill. If this same thing happened in most other countries the trial would be over by now and the murderers executed. Rant off!

Don't even get me started on that case. Dr. William Petit has lived through HELL and the god damn career criminal's 'rights' are more ****in important than that of a mother and her two daughters. His defense team (boy would I love to meet them on the street) said he was 'too stressed out to go through jury selection' after his attempted suicide. Those two career criminals were caught red handed by the police leaving the house in the family's car. Why is there even a need for a trial?!?! :mj: :fm: :mj: