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Suspect Sought in Foiled Times Square Bomb Plot
Wall St. Journal ^ | 05/02/10 | JOEL STONINGTON, R.M. SCHNEIDERMAN, DEVLIN BARRETT

Posted on 05/02/2010 3:21:05 PM PDT by OldDeckHand

A failed car bomb smoked, popped and shut down Times Square, causing panic, evacuations and confusion Saturday on one of the tourist spot's busiest nights. Most of the streets in the area were reopened Sunday morning, though a heavy police presence remained in the area.

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said officers are heading to a town in Pennsylvania to talk to a man who believes he may have recorded a bombing suspect on his video camera. Police are looking a for a white male in his 40s who was seen shedding a dark shirt with a red shirt underneath, he said at an afternoon press conference. Investigators are now looking through "hundreds of hours of surveillance videos," Mr. Kelly added.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 0bamasfault; bomb; manhattan; newyork; ny; obamasfault
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The story contains this paragraph that I found interesting...

On Sunday afternoon, a law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity said the Nissan Pathfinder had been traced back to Texas, where it had been recorded as scrapped. Mr Kelly, at an afternoon press conference, said that the vehicle was not reported stolen.

Cash for Clunkers? The vehicle didn't appear to be heavily damaged in a way that you might normally expect a car to have a scrapped title.

1 posted on 05/02/2010 3:21:06 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

Well maybe this can just be called a ‘prank’ ...


2 posted on 05/02/2010 3:24:10 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Those That Turn Their Swords into Plows Will Plow For Those That Don't.)
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To: OldDeckHand

And the SUV was parked in front of the Viacom building. Viacom of course owns Comedy Central which got intimidated into censoring a recent South Park episode into removing any visual or auditory references to Muhammad.


3 posted on 05/02/2010 3:27:10 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: OldDeckHand

An NYPD truck with a bomb protective vault on the back rushes past leaving New York's Times Square where a Nissan Pathfinder sport utility vehicle was found packed with bomb materials, May 1, 2010.

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) delivers jokes as members of the head table, including David Jackson of USA Today (C) and White House Press Secretary DavidGibbs (R), laugh at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, May 1, 2010.

4 posted on 05/02/2010 3:31:14 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (It Matters Not What You Fight But What You Fight For.)
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5 posted on 05/02/2010 3:32:46 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.......Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: OldDeckHand

1500 hundred quatloos we won’t see a picture/description of the guy nor his religious affiliation...just be on the lookout for a “guy”.


6 posted on 05/02/2010 3:33:20 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: Dallas59

In a white van.


7 posted on 05/02/2010 3:34:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: OldDeckHand

Yes, it does sound like cash for clunkers. You can’t get a salvage title, - well in theory you can’t, but we have the liar’s affidavit here in TX - but you have what was it? how many thousand clunkers turned in for the 4000.00 credit in TX alone?

Fantastic opportunity to get an untraceable vehicle for a crime.


8 posted on 05/02/2010 3:36:06 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I’m sure there’s no connection.

We must all be on the lookout for 2 white males driving a white van, most likely veterans of the US military.

/Chief Moose bit my sister


9 posted on 05/02/2010 3:37:05 PM PDT by Salamander (Hold onto to all your fears 'cuz when I get outta here....vengeance is mine, mine, mine!)
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To: Dallas59

With a red shirt on.


10 posted on 05/02/2010 3:38:09 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: SkyDancer

**Well maybe this can just be called a ‘prank’ ...**

We can also call it a SUCCESSFUL TERRORIST ATTACK.
Placed the bomb successfully, Detonated it correctly... LUCKILY... the bomb itself FAILED... the rest was quite successful.


11 posted on 05/02/2010 3:38:29 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (The one thing we learn from history is .. People REFUSE to Learn from History!!)
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To: Dallas59

Bonus points for using “quatloos” in a FR post.

[what are the odds of *that*?]....;]


12 posted on 05/02/2010 3:39:29 PM PDT by Salamander (Hold onto to all your fears 'cuz when I get outta here....vengeance is mine, mine, mine!)
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To: Salamander

A white van with a “Palin In 2012” bumper sticker and a dancing Jesus on the dashboard.


13 posted on 05/02/2010 3:40:07 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: Dallas59

2000 quatloos we won’t even hear if a suspect is captured


14 posted on 05/02/2010 3:40:38 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (The one thing we learn from history is .. People REFUSE to Learn from History!!)
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To: OldDeckHand
Cash for Clunkers? The vehicle didn't appear to be heavily damaged in a way that you might normally expect a car to have a scrapped title.

More than likely there was some damage to the vehicle, which was totaled by the insurance company as being cheaper to total than repair. At that point, it would have a salvage title - which many take to be as a vehicle that has been scrapped. You can buy vehicles with salvage titles.

15 posted on 05/02/2010 3:42:00 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberal Logic: Mandatory health insurance is constitutional - enforcing immigration law is not.)
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To: OldDeckHand

How long will it take Janet to find the muzzies who did this, quietly whisk them away to sanctuary in one of our newly created “allies”, and to quickly pin this on some rotten, good-for-nothing anti-government type somewhere in the heartland?


16 posted on 05/02/2010 3:42:34 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: gwilhelm56

Fox mentioned that 2009 saw more terrorist threats, attempts and attacks than 2001-2008, combined.

Hmmm.

What’s changed?


17 posted on 05/02/2010 3:43:03 PM PDT by Salamander (Hold onto to all your fears 'cuz when I get outta here....vengeance is mine, mine, mine!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

And “Lifetime NRA Member” and “Every Abortion Stops A Beating Heart” stickers.


18 posted on 05/02/2010 3:44:43 PM PDT by Salamander (Hold onto to all your fears 'cuz when I get outta here....vengeance is mine, mine, mine!)
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To: gwilhelm56

I was making a sarcastic statement - that defense lawyer at the trial of the kid accused of hacking Palin’s email account was just calling it a prank ... not the illegal accessing ...and that’s the way I think the media will play it out when they discover the guy who did it was a Democrat/Liberal/activist ....


19 posted on 05/02/2010 3:45:25 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Those That Turn Their Swords into Plows Will Plow For Those That Don't.)
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To: gwilhelm56

20 posted on 05/02/2010 3:45:26 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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