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2010-05-02 Home Front: WoT
Car Bomb Forces Evacuation Of Times Square
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Posted by Sherry 2010-05-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Bush didn't protect us!
Posted by Charles 2010-05-02 00:02||   2010-05-02 00:02|| Front Page Top

#2 THEY NEED TO GET ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE AROUND THE CAR AREA OUT OF THERE. WHAT IF THE CAR EXPLODES.
Posted by RICO 2010-05-02 01:11||   2010-05-02 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 WHAT IF THE CAR EXPLODES.

I never thought of that. Maybe you should call the NYC police and let them know. If they seem like they're ignoring you, just keep calling back until you find someone who will listen to you.
Posted by gorb 2010-05-02 02:22||   2010-05-02 02:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Bush didn't protect us!

Apparently your old mum didn't use the necessary protection either!
Posted by Ralphs son Johnnie 2010-05-02 02:49||   2010-05-02 02:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Intifada comes to New York?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-02 04:46||   2010-05-02 04:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Intifada or jihad ... or maybe anarchists on May 1.

Or maybe someone pissed he couldn't get good tickets to the show.

Who knows at this point? It's NYC.
Posted by lotp 2010-05-02 08:14||   2010-05-02 08:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Fortunate they were not well-trained terrorists, or the bomb might have worked. Unless it was a false-flag bomb - intended to not go off, but to discredit some group without actually hurting anyone. We'll see who the vehicle or bomb components trace back to (think of Operation Himmler & Polish town Gleiwitz or maybe Gulf of Tonkin?)
Posted by Glenmore 2010-05-02 08:42||   2010-05-02 08:42|| Front Page Top

#8 When the person dropped the car off was there a taxi waiting for them? How did they get away? There are cameras everywhere around time square.
Posted by airandee 2010-05-02 08:48||   2010-05-02 08:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Johnnie I believe Charles was being sarcastic. And a good one, too.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-05-02 08:52||   2010-05-02 08:52|| Front Page Top

#10 They picked up three Iranians with backpacks, after scouting out the sights from the top floor of the Marriot, and towed a licenseless van New Year's Eve. This hotel was also evacuated Saturday night, as it overlooks the district. Dry run?
Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-05-02 09:22||   2010-05-02 09:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Being 1 May and all, it sounds more like some Anarchists group, maybe some close friend of Aires. It certainly would not be a communist/socialist group. That group owns the White House...
Posted by 49 Pan 2010-05-02 10:52||   2010-05-02 10:52|| Front Page Top

#12 The Telegraph is reporting that the vehicle was parked near the Viacom headquarters.

This might be aimed at South Park, even though the creators live in Colorado.
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2010-05-02 11:00||   2010-05-02 11:00|| Front Page Top

#13 That may have been a dry run, Lumpy Elmoluck5091. This was a lucky fizzle. The New York Post has more:

An unidentified T-shirt vendor, who is a Vietnam veteran, saw smoke billowing from a Nissan Pathfinder and alerted Police Officer Wayne Rhatigan, a mounted patrol cop, who looked inside the smoldering vehicle at around 6:30 p.m. on West 45th Street near Seventh Avenue in front of an entrance to the Minskoff Theatre.

Rhatigan, who has been on the force for 19 years, the last four in the Mounted Unit, smelled gunpowder and called in the Fire Department, which put out the car fire as he and two patrol officers cleared the area of civilians.

Bomb Squad members then searched the SUV, which bore Connecticut license plates that were actually registered to a Ford F-150, and found two gasoline cans, three propane tanks, electrical wires, black powder, consumer grade fireworks and two clocks, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

There was a "box within a box" in the car, a 2X2X4 black gun locker, Kelly said.

Officials dismantled the first device and were in the process of rendering the second box safe this morning at the department’s firing range in the Bronx.

An NYPD security camera caught the Pathfinder travelling west on West 45th Street at 6:28 p.m. and at 6:34 p.m. the 911 call came in, Kelly said.

Investigators interviewed the person who had the license plates before they were put on the Pathfinder. That person is not a suspect and told officials that he dropped the plates off at a junkyard. Police are trying to track down the owner of that junkyard.

Ay Pee adds that the keys were left in the ignition, and fingerprints have been found.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-05-02 11:11||   2010-05-02 11:11|| Front Page Top

#14 "There was a "box within a box" in the car, a 2X2X4 black gun locker, Kelly said. Officials dismantled the first device and were in the process of rendering the second box safe this morning at the department’s firing range in the Bronx."

Hope they remembered to check with a Geiger counter.
Posted by Bulldog 2010-05-02 11:14||   2010-05-02 11:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Viacom Offices (see: "South Park") was evacuated. Prolly Teabaggers or disgruntled veterans, right, Janet Incompetano?
Posted by Frank G 2010-05-02 11:21||   2010-05-02 11:21|| Front Page Top

#16 Rhatigan, who has been on the force for 19 years, the last four in the Mounted Unit, smelled gunpowder

Yet another case of gunpowder profiling by law enforcement. When will it end?
Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-02 11:26||   2010-05-02 11:26|| Front Page Top

#17 The Vietnam Vet T shirt business has a special on Jane Fonda t shirts today.
Posted by bman 2010-05-02 11:40||   2010-05-02 11:40|| Front Page Top

#18 From the Telegraph
The device, which failed to detonate, was left near the offices of Viacom, which owns the irreverent cartoon series.

Last month postings on an Islamic website warned the creators of South Park - Matt Stone and Trey Parker - that they could face violent reprisals after an episode of the show featured Mohammed in a bear suit.

A posting on the website of a US-based group called Revolution Muslim warned Stone and Parker that they would “probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh”, the Dutch film-maker who was murdered in 2004 by a Muslim angered by his film about Muslim women.
Posted by Sherry 2010-05-02 11:48||   2010-05-02 11:48|| Front Page Top

#19 All I needed. Mr. Secretary, initiate DEFCOM 1 please. Madam Secretary, send the Tehran communique at 2300 hrs local. Give them 30 minutes to evacuate. Someone notify the Israelis.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-02 11:55||   2010-05-02 11:55|| Front Page Top

#20 Mayor Michael Bloomberg left early from the White House correspondent's dinner Saturday night. A news conference was planned in New York for early Sunday


Bambi - take note.
Posted by anonymous_2u2 2010-05-02 13:35||   2010-05-02 13:35|| Front Page Top

#21 maybe anarchists on May 1

There was also the Puerto Rican statehood bill passed last Friday as well.
Posted by Pappy 2010-05-02 14:01||   2010-05-02 14:01|| Front Page Top

#22 Monitoring Group Says Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility for Times Square Car Bomb
Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-05-02 14:15||   2010-05-02 14:15|| Front Page Top

#23 Bomb Squad members then searched the SUV, which bore Connecticut license plates that were actually registered to a Ford F-150

Hmmm . . . .

Looks like the F-150's spirit protected us somehow.
Posted by gorb 2010-05-02 14:49||   2010-05-02 14:49|| Front Page Top

#24 drink up!
Posted by Frank G 2010-05-02 14:53||   2010-05-02 14:53|| Front Page Top

#25 lotp, "propane tanks, explosive powders and a crude timing device" is practically a Paleo TM. Betcha if NYPD gives Shabak the whole data they'll get the name of the muhandas (engineer)in return.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-02 15:01||   2010-05-02 15:01|| Front Page Top

#26 Meanwhile over at the Democratic Underground:

This is going to be a fascinating story to follow, whether it's more right wingers, some lone lunatic, or some religious wannabes.

I wouldn't be surprised if teabaggers were behind the bomb scare

Another Toyota recall problem? "The car was said to be a failed device"

The McVeighs are starting

Is BP trying to get off the front page?

Wow, wonder who did it? Teabaggers or someone else?

I think Halliburton has a finger in this pie

Did they check who called in sick to FOX News?

Stay classy, lefties.
Posted by DMFD 2010-05-02 15:07||   2010-05-02 15:07|| Front Page Top

#27 G(r)omgoru, thanks for that useful info.
Posted by lotp 2010-05-02 20:49||   2010-05-02 20:49|| Front Page Top

#28 Gunpowder, petrol and propane tanks says amateurs who don't have access to someone who built a real bomb.

IMO, Left or Right wing nuts. Probably the former given the date.
Posted by phil_b 2010-05-02 21:40||   2010-05-02 21:40|| Front Page Top

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