NYC Mayor Suggests Car Bomb Maker Was Home Grown And Mad Over Health Care Bill
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[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/03/eveningnews/main6457014.shtml[/url]
[QUOTE](CBS) CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric asked New York's Mayor Mike Bloomberg if the bombing attempt could be a precursor to a bigger attack.
"There is no credible evidence so far that this attack was more than at least one person, the driver," said Mayor Mike Bloomberg. "After that there is no evidence that anyone else was involved. It may be, but we can't say that it is."
"There is some speculation that the materials in the Nissan Pathfinder were similar to ones that were found to some failed attacks in the U.K.," Couric asked.
"There's a limited number of things you would need," Bloomberg said. "You'd need a timer, you'd need a battery as an energy source you'd need some explosive and you'd need something to enhance it. That's going to be true no matter where or when the...another attack took place. So, anything would have enough commonalities for the conspiracy theorists to blow it up if you don't mind the pun and make something out of it."
"Are you concerned about the impact this might have on tourism?" Couric asked.
"I think people today understand we live in a dangerous world," Bloomberg said. "And you can't let the terrorists win by locking yourself in a room. What I can guarantee you is we're doing everything that we can. Whether or not we will have somebody in exactly the right place at exactly the right time to prevent something down the future nobody can do that - nobody can guarantee you."
"But there is no evidence here of a conspiracy. There is no evidence that it's tied in to anything else. It looks like an amatuerish job, done by at least one person," Bloomberg added.
But if another attack were to occur, Mayor Bloomberg and the heads of all emergency response agencies would be in the city's situation room. It's powered by its own generator and allows the team to monitor video feeds, television coverage - even the corner of 45th and Seventh Avenue, where a crisis was averted.
Law enforcement officials don't know who left the Nissan Pathfinder behind, but at this point the Mayor believes the suspect acted alone.
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"If I had to guess, twenty five cents, this would be exactly that," Bloomberg said. "Homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything."[/B]
In the immediate area, there are some 82 police surveillance cameras and many more owned by the private sector.
Police commissioner Ray Kelly says the investigation is time-consuming and so far, he has ruled nothing out.
"I think it's dangerous to characterize it as amatuerish. We don't know the motivation behind it. We know somebody had the motivation to kill people, or seriously injur people. This investigation has a long way to go," Kelly said.
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[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7676377/New-York-Times-Square-bomb-three-passengers-removed-from-Dubai-flight.html[/url]
[QUOTE]Faisal Shahzad was accused on Tuesday of driving the sport utility vehicle packed with explosives into the busy area on Saturday evening.
He was arrested at about 11.45pm. EST on Monday (0445 BST on Tuesday) at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York as he attempted to board a flight to Dubai, local and federal officials said.
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Emirates Airlines said that three passengers were removed from a New York-Dubai flight. It was not immediately clear if it was the same flight that Shahzad was trying to board.
Emirates can confirm that its flight EK 202 (from New York to Dubai on May 3) ... was called back by the local authorities prior to departure. Three passengers were removed from the flight," the airline said in a statement.
"Full security procedures were activated, including the deplaning of all passengers and a thorough screening of the aircraft, passengers, and baggage. Emirates is co-operating with the local authorities," it said.
Shahzad will appear in Manhattan federal court later on Tuesday to face charges "for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1," according to a statement by US Attorney Preet Bharara, FBI agent George Venizelos and New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
Mr Kelly has said that more than one person may have been involved in the plot.
Shahzad, 30, is believed to have bought the 1993 Nissan sport utility vehicle used to carry the crude bomb made of fuel and fireworks into Times Square as the theatre and shopping area was packed with people on a warm Saturday evening.
Had the bomb detonated, many people could have died, officials said.
Authorities carried out a court-authorised search warrant at Shahzad's home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the FBI said on Tuesday in a predawn statement at the site. An FBI spokeswoman did not say what authorities had found.
For New Yorkers who bore the brunt of the Sept. 11 attacks by al Qaeda militants in 2001, the scare was a reminder that their city of 8 million people remained under constant threat.
Emirates, the airline whose flight Shahzad had boarded in New York before being detained, said in a statement that a total of three passengers were removed from the plane.
"Full security procedures were activated including the deplaning of all passengers and a thorough screening of the aircraft, passengers and baggage," an Emirates spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
Pakistan pledged to help the United States in the case.
"We will co-operate with the United States in identifying this individual and bringing him to justice," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Reuters. [/QUOTE]
Cus a Pakistani named Faisal Shahzad who just came back from Pakistan after only being Naturalized last year totally put a bomb in Times Square Because he's just mad At Health Care Reform. :downs:
Also I wish Facepunch had a Shitstorm Thread Icon, but I guess Rant is close enough.
Oh wow, this is great. Even when they were nearly attacked again, they still can't stop arguing over stupid shit.
That's politics for you, always caring about themselves.
Well they [b]do[/b] need to find out why the bomb was planted.
Some fella left his fireworks in his boot for too long, and his petrol.
Times Square is a heavily populated area, with most major news programs being located there from my understanding. A bomb in Times Square would not only kill many, but prevent us from getting major news that could possibly save us from future attacks.
[QUOTE=Neo222;21732411]Times Square is a heavily populated area, with most major news programs being located there from my understanding. A bomb in Times Square would not only kill many, but prevent us from getting major news that could possibly save us from future attacks.[/QUOTE]
News stations are a lot more robust than that, even if Manhattan was nuked they would still have other ways of broadcasting from other locations.
[QUOTE=Mabus;21732408]Some fella left his fireworks in his boot for too long, and his petrol.[/QUOTE]
Yeah no worries.
Although he did leave a gun locker, and a clock
..and had the clock wired up to some shit.
[QUOTE=Devodiere;21732433]News stations are a lot more robust than that, even if Manhattan was nuked they would still have other ways of broadcasting from other locations.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, not to mention CNN is located in Atlanta.
[QUOTE=Devodiere;21732433]News stations are a lot more robust than that, even if Manhattan was nuked they would still have other ways of broadcasting from other locations.[/QUOTE]
True, for a news station would have another branch in Washington D.C. Still, terrorists target areas that they think would deal a major blow to a government. I don't know how many people are in Times Square everyday, but I do know that a bomb exploding in that area would kill hundreds.
[QUOTE=Neo222;21732556]True, for a news station would have another branch in Washington D.C. Still, terrorists target areas that they think would deal a major blow to a government. I don't know how many people are in Times Square everyday, but I do know that a bomb exploding in that area would kill hundreds.[/QUOTE]
Terrorists fight guerilla wars, they aim to maim
This Seems Very Far Fetched.
[QUOTE=Neo222;21732556]True, for a news station would have another branch in Washington D.C. Still, terrorists target areas that they think would deal a major blow to a government. I don't know how many people are in Times Square everyday, but I do know that a bomb exploding in that area would kill hundreds.[/QUOTE]
it's not about killing people. it's about inciting fear. in their eyes, this was a successful operation (the bomb might have intentionally been set to not explode).
[QUOTE=Foda;21734008]it's not about killing people. it's about inciting fear. in their eyes, this was a successful operation (the bomb might have intentionally been set to not explode).[/QUOTE]
I doubt the person who did this intended it not to explode. They'd be pretty bad at being a terrorist if that were the case. A bomb that kills 200 people on a random day in Times Square is a lot more scary than one that smolders in an SUV doing no damage.
[QUOTE=Neo222;21732411]Times Square is a heavily populated area, with most major news programs being located there from my understanding. A bomb in Times Square would not only kill many, but prevent us from getting major news that could possibly save us from future attacks.[/QUOTE]
Because a car bomb will annihilate all of Manhattan, and all news stations have only one building.
All this terrorism brainwashing is really showing these days.
[QUOTE=Foda;21734008]it's not about killing people. it's about inciting fear. in their eyes, this was a successful operation (the bomb might have intentionally been set to not explode).[/QUOTE]
Then it would of worked. There is nothing we can do in this war on terror except for finding the key leaders behind the group and eliminate them. But even that is difficult.
If you actually hear what is said, Bloomberg takes a pause to think about who to name, at which point Katie Couric states "Homegrown?" and he then goes along with what she said. That's technically classified as leading the interviewee, which is not at all considered professional journalism. And from what I've heard, they did use the VIN to trace the SUV back to this guy.
GG Bloomberg
He was doing poorly economically, and he came to the US in 1998, and became a citizen in 2000. He learned how to make bombs from the Taliban, or another terrorist organization, yet there were many flaws with his explosive, which was made of like, firecrackers or some shit. His family moved back to Pakistan earlier, due to hardships. He was on his way out of the country when he was caught.
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