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U.S. Officials Finding Foreign Links to New York Bomb Plot | ||
2010-05-04 | ||
Attorney General Eric Holder said today the investigators had made "substantial progress" in tracking the man who drove a Nissan Pathfinder into New York's Times Square with a crude bomb that failed to detonate. Officials declined to provide the specifics that led them to believe there were overseas links to a larger plot.
Other law enforcement officials said the investigation was closing in on the driver of the vehicle and an unknown number of others connected to him. "This is moving very fast because they left behind a treasure trove of evidence in the unexploded car," one US official told ABC News. Officials told ABC News Senior Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas that the Connecticut owner of the vehicle told them he had sold the Nissan SUV last month in an unrecorded sale to an "Arabic or Latino looking man" in his 20's or 30's, for a few hundred dollars in cash. The authorities told ABC News that the previous owner provided a description of the man who bought the car, and told investigators the vehicle was sold for several hundred dollars in cash, with no written records identifying the purchaser. The license plate found on the Pathfinder also came from Connecticut, #98CY09, according to photographs of the vehicle. Authorities tell ABC News that the plate came from a vehicle that was in a repair shop near Bridgeport, Connecticut. | ||
Posted by:Steve White |
#5 Another data point for the "poverty causes terrorism crowd". |
Posted by: ed 2010-05-04 09:44 |
#4 Where did he get the money to do buy a house and apartments? Family money from Pakistan. |
Posted by: ed 2010-05-04 09:43 |
#3 He owns a place in Bridgeport. He rents out apartments. Where did he get the money to do buy a house and apartments? Who were his renters? Better follow the money. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-04 09:38 |
#2 Let's keep those happy details quiet for now, 'k? Write about them in your memoirs ... Why not give them to the NYT? |
Posted by: gorb 2010-05-04 02:33 |
#1 Let's keep those happy details quiet for now, 'k? Write about them in your memoirs ... Rantburg Foreign Disclosure Office, please contact the Hildebeast with regard to yesterday's release of nuclear stockpile data. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2010-05-04 00:35 |