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<blockquote data-quote="blkGT500nCA" data-source="post: 9640511" data-attributes="member: 74752"><p>Here, let me fix your thread for you. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"Federal authorities have joined the search for a suspect who planted a crude car bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square on Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers on a warm and busy night.</p><p></p><p>Although the device had apparently started to detonate, there was no explosion, and early on Sunday the authorities were reviewing surveillance tapes and forensic evidence as they sought out a motive.</p><p></p><p>“We are very lucky,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said at a 2:15 a.m. press conference. “We avoided what could have been a very deadly event.”</p><p></p><p>A large swath of Midtown — from 43rd Street to 48th Street, and from Sixth to Eighth Avenues — was closed for much of the evening after the Pathfinder was discovered just off Broadway on 45th Street. Several theaters and stores, as well as a portion of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, were evacuated. The streets and hotels have since reopened.</p><p></p><p>Federal authorities said the incident appeared to be an isolated one, and that there was no evidence of an ongoing threat to the city.</p><p></p><p>“We are treating it as if it could be a potential terrorist attack,” Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security secretary, told CNN, one of several television appearances she made on Sunday morning.</p><p></p><p>The bomb itself was not a sophisticated device, Ms. Napolitano said on ABC’s “This Week.” She said there was no clear sense about how large the explosion might have been. “Right now, we have no evidence other than it is a one-off,” she said.</p><p></p><p>On Sunday, police and F.B.I. officials were also investigating a 911 call placed at around 4 .a.m. on Sunday, several officials said. The caller, who one official said sounded intelligent, admonished the 911 dispatcher not to interrupt him until he was finished and then said there would be a massive explosion soon and the car in Times Square was only a diversion.</p><p></p><p>The call came from a payphone at West 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue, which detectives have since dusted for fingerprints, the officials said.</p><p></p><p>It remained unclear what link, if any, existed between the caller and the failed car bomb from hours earlier, the officials said.</p><p></p><p>The Pathfinder was towed by police to a forensic facility in Jamaica, Queens, where investigators are scouring it for fingerprints and other DNA evidence, such as skin cells, saliva, blood or hair follicles. No prints have yet been found, officials said, but the analysis is still in its early stages.</p><p></p><p>The authorities were also examining the incendiary materials discovered inside the Pathfinder by a police bomb squad on Sunday: three canisters of propane, similar to those used for barbecue grills, and two red five-gallon cans of gasoline.</p><p></p><p>Consumer-grade fireworks, resembling a model known as M-80s, were taped around the outside of the gasoline cans, according to several people briefed on the contents of the car. Two clocks with batteries, including one that resembled a child’s toy, were connected to the device by small wires.</p><p></p><p>Investigators believe that the fuses on the firecrackers had been lit, but they did not explode, the people said. The burning fuses apparently ignited a portion of the car’s interior, causing a small fire that filled the inside of the car with smoke, one law enforcement official said.</p><p></p><p>Another official said that the popping noises heard by a firefighter as he approached the vehicle may have been made by the fireworks failing to fully detonate.</p><p></p><p>Investigators were reviewing similarities between the incident in Times Square and coordinated attacks in the summer of 2007 that targeted a Glasgow airport and a neighborhood in London of nightclubs and theaters. Both incidents involved cars containing propane and gasoline that did not explode. Those attacks, the authorities believed, had their roots in Iraq.</p><p></p><p>“You can find similarities among different attacks, but there is nothing that we have at this point that has established that link,” said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, who noted that the London and Glasgow incidents stand out among the others the department is reviewing.</p><p></p><p>Investigators from Homeland Security are also collaborating on the case.</p><p></p><p>Mr. Bloomberg plans to treat the mounted officer who discovered the car bomb to a dinner on Sunday night at a restaurant in Times Square, to demonstrate, aides said, that the area is safe and has returned to a state of normalcy. They will eat at Blue Fin, at the W Hotel on 47th Street, around 7 p.m."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/nyregion/03timessquare.html" target="_blank">Read more here</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blkGT500nCA, post: 9640511, member: 74752"] Here, let me fix your thread for you. "Federal authorities have joined the search for a suspect who planted a crude car bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square on Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers on a warm and busy night. Although the device had apparently started to detonate, there was no explosion, and early on Sunday the authorities were reviewing surveillance tapes and forensic evidence as they sought out a motive. “We are very lucky,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said at a 2:15 a.m. press conference. “We avoided what could have been a very deadly event.” A large swath of Midtown — from 43rd Street to 48th Street, and from Sixth to Eighth Avenues — was closed for much of the evening after the Pathfinder was discovered just off Broadway on 45th Street. Several theaters and stores, as well as a portion of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, were evacuated. The streets and hotels have since reopened. Federal authorities said the incident appeared to be an isolated one, and that there was no evidence of an ongoing threat to the city. “We are treating it as if it could be a potential terrorist attack,” Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security secretary, told CNN, one of several television appearances she made on Sunday morning. The bomb itself was not a sophisticated device, Ms. Napolitano said on ABC’s “This Week.” She said there was no clear sense about how large the explosion might have been. “Right now, we have no evidence other than it is a one-off,” she said. On Sunday, police and F.B.I. officials were also investigating a 911 call placed at around 4 .a.m. on Sunday, several officials said. The caller, who one official said sounded intelligent, admonished the 911 dispatcher not to interrupt him until he was finished and then said there would be a massive explosion soon and the car in Times Square was only a diversion. The call came from a payphone at West 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue, which detectives have since dusted for fingerprints, the officials said. It remained unclear what link, if any, existed between the caller and the failed car bomb from hours earlier, the officials said. The Pathfinder was towed by police to a forensic facility in Jamaica, Queens, where investigators are scouring it for fingerprints and other DNA evidence, such as skin cells, saliva, blood or hair follicles. No prints have yet been found, officials said, but the analysis is still in its early stages. The authorities were also examining the incendiary materials discovered inside the Pathfinder by a police bomb squad on Sunday: three canisters of propane, similar to those used for barbecue grills, and two red five-gallon cans of gasoline. Consumer-grade fireworks, resembling a model known as M-80s, were taped around the outside of the gasoline cans, according to several people briefed on the contents of the car. Two clocks with batteries, including one that resembled a child’s toy, were connected to the device by small wires. Investigators believe that the fuses on the firecrackers had been lit, but they did not explode, the people said. The burning fuses apparently ignited a portion of the car’s interior, causing a small fire that filled the inside of the car with smoke, one law enforcement official said. Another official said that the popping noises heard by a firefighter as he approached the vehicle may have been made by the fireworks failing to fully detonate. Investigators were reviewing similarities between the incident in Times Square and coordinated attacks in the summer of 2007 that targeted a Glasgow airport and a neighborhood in London of nightclubs and theaters. Both incidents involved cars containing propane and gasoline that did not explode. Those attacks, the authorities believed, had their roots in Iraq. “You can find similarities among different attacks, but there is nothing that we have at this point that has established that link,” said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, who noted that the London and Glasgow incidents stand out among the others the department is reviewing. Investigators from Homeland Security are also collaborating on the case. Mr. Bloomberg plans to treat the mounted officer who discovered the car bomb to a dinner on Sunday night at a restaurant in Times Square, to demonstrate, aides said, that the area is safe and has returned to a state of normalcy. They will eat at Blue Fin, at the W Hotel on 47th Street, around 7 p.m." [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/nyregion/03timessquare.html"]Read more here[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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