Police Find Explosives in an S.U.V. in Times Square

Hunt is on for missing Conn. man who bought car bomb Nissan just 2 weeks ago on Craigslist

Saw this just now on Google News

I wish they'd leave New York alone. How much misery can the big apple possibly take?

Police -- who are poring over surveillance camera footage, the Pathfinder and the bomb parts for clues -- are looking for a white man in his 40s captured on video near the vehicle shortly after it was left in Times Square.

As this differs from the description of the car buyer, one law enforcement source said it gave "some credibility to the statement that (investigators) believe there is more than one individual involved and that it is international in scope."

But several officials cautioned against drawing conclusions about who was responsible because the investigation was still in the early stages.

"I can't at this point rule in or out the possibility of international connections," said one senior U.S. intelligence official. "People need to let the facts lead where they will and it's unclear to me that all the facts are in."

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg described the failed bomb attack as an "amateurish job" but authorities said the device could have created a deadly fireball had it detonated.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder vowed on Monday that those responsible would be arrested.

"We have made really substantial progress. We have some good leads," Holder told reporters in Washington. "We are following a number of other leads as well."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/nyregion/04bomb.html?hp

Got him trying to flee.

Joe(you mean he didn't get out of Dodge on Sunday?)Nation

Chjeah!

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Get a rope.
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Too much is being made over the vendor's quick action in reporting the SUV. Reading over his remarks, I could not help noting that the bomb had already been set off by the time he noticed the smoke from the van. Had it not been a dud, the vendor likely would have died.

I don't agree. The man noticed something was wrong, and quickly notified police. That is precisely what they have been asking NYers to do. I feel the vendor helped to save lives. I don't begrudge him the praise he is getting.

If it weren't for the smoke, the car probably wouldn't have drawn the vendor's attention so swiftly, even though it was parked hap-hazardly with the motor running. That is a very congested area.

The man deserves to be praised. He was alert to the situation and reported it quickly. Just saying, the explosion, had it not been a defective piece of work, would have killed him before he could have reported it.

Interesting dynamic today. McCain criticizes the Justice Department for reading the arrested man his Miranda rights. Glenn Beck jumps on the other side saying of course he should be read his rights since he is an American citizen.

I figured out why the bomb sucked. He was a procrastinator. He played Farmville on Facebook.

Social networking saved Times Square.

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I am no lawyer or cop, but you have to cover all your bases to make sure the guy can't walk on a technicality.

Apparently hes singing his soul out. Thing about these cowards, their loyalties are always rentable.

to whom is he supposed to be loyal? He does not even know what fertilizer to use, I doubt he was trained by anybody.

Maybe he got the readers digest version of the anarchists Handbook.

AT least his tomatoes will be succulent and large.

Stephen Colbert 04 May 2010.

Hah, in 2003 I was in new york for the better part of a week in a combo of business and meet friends trip with my primary point to get the the met art museum. That's when I met Roberta and Diane. Diane and I walked ourselves silly over several days. I managed to not (or not that I know of) pass Times Square.
I hadn't been in NYC since 1969, and I didn't see Times Square then either. (That was when my mother was acting funny, the onset of alzheimer's, and we didn't see much.) I lived there as a kid, 1950, for a year. I'm not sure I saw it then either.

AS far as I understand it, Times Square back then was a very very creepy place. Glad you missed it.

well, maybe this guy actually did train. If so the terrorists might want to look at their organizational structure as they are embarrassing themselves.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20100504/US.Times.Square.Probe/

Shocking *sarcasm*

We have all been clear all along that airport "security" is theater....right?