UPDATE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505049/posts
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/05/pakistani_taliban_cl.php
“Pakistani Taliban claim credit for failed NYC Times Square car bombing”
By BILL ROGGIO
May 2, 2010 10:24 AM
SNIPPET: “Qari Hussain Mehsud, the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, said he takes “fully responsibility for the recent attack in the USA.” Qari Hussain made the claim on an audiotape accompanied by images that was released on a YouTube website that calls itself the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel.
The tape has yet to be verified, but US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal believe it is legitimate. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel on YouTube was created on April 30. Officials believe it was created to announce the Times Square attack, and Qari Hussain’s statement was pre-recorded.
All indications are the tape is legitimate. YouTube has pulled the video and shut down the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel since this article was published.
Qari Hussain Mehsud. Image is from a Pakistani Army wanted poster.
“This attack is a revenge for the great & valuable martyred leaders of mujahideen,” Qari Hussain said. He listed Baitullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Pakistani Taliban who was killed in a Predator strike in August 2009, and Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the former leader of al Qaeda Islamic State of Iraq who was killed by Iraqi forces in mid-April. And although he was not mentioned, an image of Abu Ayyub al Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was also displayed in the images accompanying the audiotape.”
Note: Photo included.
May 2, 2010
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://newyork.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel10/nyfo050210.htm
FBI JTTF and NYPD Conduct Investigation into Times Square Vehicle Incident
On May 1, 2010, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York, along with the NYPD, responded to Times Square in response to a suspicious vehicle and device. Bomb technicians, Evidence Response Team members, and investigators were on scene and a command post was established. Both the device and the vehicle are currently being examined by the FBI and NYPD. Numerous FBI offices have been tasked with leads to assist with the investigation and every lead will be followed.
FBI and NYPD investigators are aware of the various reports of claims for placing the car and device in Times Square. As we’ve seen previously, it is not uncommon after any similar event for claims of responsibility to be made—and those claims will be investigated. Knowingly providing false information can be a crime.
Since the beginning of the investigation, there have been numerous reports in the public domain, many of which will eventually be determined to be inaccurate. More information will be forthcoming as soon as it is available and appropriate for release. George Venizelos, Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York FBI has pledged, “All of the resources of the New York FBI will be made available to assist with this ongoing investigation.”
I should hope that someone saved this recording. Seems interesting that they are already trying to pin this on some white guy.
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org: "Exclusive: Tapes Show Hakeemullah Mehsud Is Alive and Threatens Attacks In The US" by Bill Roggio (SNIPPET: "Hakeemullah used much of the audio and video tapes to warn the US that his followers have been dispatched to the US to carry out strikes in the major cites and "states." "The time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in their major cities," Hakeemullah said. "And Inshallah (god willing) we will give extremely painful blows to the fanatic America." "Inshallah very soon in some days or a month's time, the Muslim ummah will see the fruits of most successful attacks of our fedayeen in USA."") (May 2, 2010, 9:13 pm)