Feds Investigate "South Park" Link to NYC Bomb Plot

Fox Nation ^ | May 3, 2010

[jmcenanly]

Police hunting the man who parked a crude but powerful car bomb in Times Square Saturday night are looking into a possible link to a South Park cartoon lampooning censorship about Mohammed.

No link has been established, but threats against the Comedy Central animators were made by a New York Islamist Web site last month and police are aggressively looking for connections, sources told the Daily News.

The dark-colored Nissan SUV, its engine running and hazard lights flashing, was parked on W. 45th St. right next to the Broadway headquarters of Viacom, which owns Comedy Central.

The Pathfinder was packed with propane, gasoline and fireworks and a rudimentary fuse had already been ignited.

A vendor saved the day when he saw smoke curling from the car at about 6:30 p.m. and alerted Officer Wayne Rhatigan.

The materials were primitive, but if the SUV had blown, officials said the inferno would have eclipsed the blazing lights of the Crossroads of the World.

"I think the intent was to cause a significant ball of fire," said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

"We are very, very lucky," said a police source.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the feds were taking it very seriously, treating it as "a potential terrorist attack."

[Pinkbell]

Placemark for later.

[livius]

It’s also possible that it was parked there simply because it was the closest spot to Broadway that he could find and there wasn’t any particular significance to its parking space.

I wonder if this was a loading zone? There’s very little parking around Times Square. The fact that he left the hazard lights flashing makes me think he might wanted it to look as if he was making a delivery.

[verga]

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the feds were taking it very seriously, treating it as "a potential terrorist attack." "And the system worked, what? What do you mean it was a street vendor taht saw the smoke, and not one of our crack HSA agents?"

There fixed it.

[Dallas59]

But it has nothing to do with Islam./s

[Anvilhead]

"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the feds were taking it very seriously, treating it as "a potential terrorist attack."

Since they're treating like a "potential terrorist attack" that must meean there wasn't a random Dutch national making sure that the "system works". Since NY used to be New Amsterdam that means this is under Dutch jurisdiction. We should sue.

[Oceander]

[Condor51]

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the feds were taking it very seriously, treating it as "a potential terrorist attack."

Yeah.
And Nappy will send her Storm Troopers to houses of TEA Party Grannies to investigate their whereabouts.

(They all have knitting needles ya know, and you can poke an eye out with one)

[fuzzybutt]

I’d say “Nappy the Clown” is the perfect name for Nappy the clown!