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The Middle East Media Research Institute first reported the discovery of an online video claiming responsibility for the attempted car bombing in Times Square. The video shows a montage while an unseen person speaks in Urdu. The speaker is allegedly Qari Hussain Mehsud, a spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban, formally known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. The video does not specifically refer to the Times Square incident, describing it only as "this attack." Marc Sageman, a terrorism expert and former Central Intelligence Agency officer in Pakistan, said the Pakistan Taliban has a history of claiming responsibility for events they had nothing to do with. He said the group falsely claimed credit for a series of blackouts that hit the northeast several years ago and for a mass shooting in upstate New York last year. Over the past year, on at least eight different occasions, people linked to radical Islamic thought attempted to carry out or carried out attacks on targets inside the U.S. That includes the failed Christmas Day bombing on board a Detroit-bound airliner, the shooting rampage at Ft. Hood in Texas, three separate bomb plots foiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last September, and a handful of earlier plots broken up last spring and summer. Investigators said that the vehicle's Connecticut license plates didn't match the make of the car. The license plate's last known location was Kramer's Used Auto Parts in Stratford, Conn., according to a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. No one answered the phone there Sunday.
F.B.I. agents and detectives had identified and were seeking to interview the owner of the Pathfinder, which was traced to Connecticut. The owner's name was not made public. The license plate on the S.U.V. was connected to a different vehicle that was awaiting repairs in Stratford, Conn., where F.B.I. agents and the local police awoke the owner of the repair shop at 3 a.m. Sunday. The shop owner, Wayne LeBlanc, who runs Kramer's Used Auto Parts, said that the authorities had seized a black Ford F-150 pickup truck. "We're trying to help them identify who took the plates," he said. The S.U.V. had no E-ZPass, but license plate readers and cameras at the area's tollbooths were being checked to determine where the car had entered Manhattan, one official said. Investigators were reviewing similarities between the incident in Times Square and coordinated attacks in the summer of 2007 at a Glasgow airport and a London neighborhood of nightclubs and theaters. Both attacks involved cars containing propane and gasoline that did not explode. Those attacks, the authorities believed, had their roots in Iraq. | |||
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| #9 DAILY TIMES.PK > "HAKEEMULLAH" NEW VIDEO > HAKEEMULLAH warns that Taliban fighters had successfully penetrated into the "Terrorist AMERICA", + "WILL GIVE PAINFUL BLOWS" agz same. ALso warns or threatens that Amer's NATO ALLIES will SUFFER A "HUMILIATION, DESTRUCTION, + DEFEAT" "WORE THAN THE USA"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-05-03 21:28 |
| #8 It was sold on Craiglist for $1300...original owner said purchaser was either middle eastern or hispanic... |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2010-05-03 17:55 |
| #7 Clicked too soon I don't know ANYBODY that runs a car lot that way, the keys are individualy tagged and locked in a safe, NOT all on a ring, what happens if Two folks need to test ride at the same time Sounds like a diversion, scrap keys for the feds to search all over finding non-existing vehicles. Muddy the waters, so to speak. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-05-03 17:01 |
| #6 A '93 Nissan with about 19-20 keys on the ring sounds like its from a used car lot. Sounds about right, You've never seen MY keyring, 20 keys easy, but they're door, toolbox and car, I'd NEVER leave them, I'd be a fool, I'd never get any toolboxes open again. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-05-03 16:57 |
| #5 Police search for second man over New York car bomb |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-05-03 16:22 |
| #4 A '93 Nissan with about 19-20 keys on the ring sounds like its from a used car lot. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-05-03 10:42 |
| #3 Keyring of keys was reported found--corr. only one in the ignition. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-03 09:13 |
| #2 Also it was reported that there were lots of keys in the ignition. The keys might be a source of info. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-03 09:11 |
| #1 Description of bomb--parts of bomb sounds amateurish. VIN history of ownership of vehicle. Any reports that it was stolen? Physical evidence in vehicle; prints, etc.? Components of vehicle, tires, service stickers, records? Source of components in bomb? Going to be a lot of camera info to plod through. Tourists cameras/witnesses info? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-03 09:08 |