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Home Front: WoT
U.S. Officials Finding Foreign Links to New York Bomb Plot
2010-05-04
This story is evolving rapidly. I posted this for the rollover (from 1715 CT on 5/3), but you'll definitely want to check new news accounts. EFL to the pertinent part of the story from the headline.
Federal authorities are closing in on the man they say tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square Saturday, and there is growing evidence the bomber did not act alone and had ties to radical elements overseas. One senior official said there are several individuals believed to be connected with the bombing and that at least one of them is a Pakistani-American.

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.
Let's keep those happy details quiet for now, 'k? Write about them in your memoirs ...
The Washington Post, quoting Obama Administration sources, said the attempted bombing "increasingly appears to have been coordinated by several people in a plot with international links."

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  

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