Posted on 05/01/2010 9:09:39 PM PDT by Steelfish
Times Square Is Evacuated in Bomb Scare
The scene at Times Square on Saturday night after police found a suspicious package inside a Pathfinder on West 45th Street.
RAY RIVERA and KARIN HENRY May 1, 2010
A bomb in Times Square led to the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers from the area on a warm and busy Saturday evening, the police said. There was no explosion.
“It appears to be a car bomb left in a Pathfinder between Seventh and Eighth,” said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman. The device, he said, contained “explosive elements” that included “propane tanks, some kind of powder, gasoline and a timing device.”
“This is very much an active investigation,” he said.
The device was discovered by a mounted police officer who saw a box with smoke pouring from it in the back of the Pathfinder, Mr. Browne said. The officer called for backup, and the Fire Department and bomb squad.
The Pathfinder’s back window was broken out, Mr. Browne said, and the police sent in a “robotic device” to “observe it.”
Police began evacuating Times Square, starting with businesses along Seventh Avenue, including a Foot Locker store and a McDonald’s restaurant.
The license plates on the Nissan were registered to a Ford, the police said.
A New York City firefighter who told Reuters he arrived early on the scene said that the vehicle was smoking and that he saw “a flash” from the back of the it. “We put two and two together” and the evacuation was ordered, he said. Broadway was closed between at least 43rd and 46th Streets, and the police also appeared to be closing off part of Eighth Avenue.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2511480/posts
US mulls putting Pakistan Taliban on terrorism list
Rueters ^ | 5-11-10 | Rueters
Posted on May 11, 2010 2:53:05 PM PDT by NoLibZone
* ‘Terrorist’ designation would lead to punitive measures
* Five Democratic senators urge Clinton to make the move (Adds more from State Department spokesman)
By Sue Pleming
WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it was looking into putting the Pakistani Taliban, the group tied to the failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square, on the U.S. list of “foreign terrorist” groups.
Adding the Pakistani Taliban to the list would trigger punitive measures such as freezing assets tied to the group, barring foreign nationals with links to it from entering the United States and making it a crime to give any material help.
“It is something we are considering in light of what happened, and obviously the investigation will yield information that might give us greater clarity,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters.
Crowley said there was a lengthy legal process before a group could be designated a “foreign terrorist organization” and he did not know when a decision would be made.
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blog:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/05/senators-designate-pakistani-taliban-a-foreign
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Senators: Designate Pakistani Taliban a Foreign Terrorist Organization”
by IPT News • May 12, 2010 at 9:19 am
SNIPPET: “In the wake of the failed car bombing in Times Square, the State Department is pursuing avenues to blacklist the terrorist group behind the attack.
On Sunday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that there was conclusive evidence that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistani Taliban) was to blame for the attack carried out by Faisal Shahzad:
“We know that they helped facilitate it. We know that they probably helped finance it. And that he was working at their direction.””
SNIPPET: “Designating the Pakistani Taliban as an FTO would have the effect of making the group persona non grata in the international community—imposing severe travel and financial sanctions on members. It also would make it illegal to provide any assistance to the group.”
“Anti-terror funding cuts: President Obama is making New York City less safe
MICHAEL DALY
Thursday, May 13th 2010, 4:00 AM
SNIPPET: “Well, Mr. President, maybe when you come to the city for a political fund-raiser today you can explain how you can allow cuts in funding to protect those of us who live, work and raise our kids in the terrorists’ bull’s-eye.
Cuts that come in the immediate aftermath of the attempted car bombing in Times Square.
Which came in the aftermath of the attempted bombings in the subway.
Which came in the aftermath of a dozen other attempted attacks.
Which came in the aftermath of the mass murder of thousands on 9/11.
All of which came before the next attempt, which is sure to come.”
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Previously...
“White House slashes NY anti-terrorism funds amid buzz Obama will meet with NYPD Times Square heroes”
BY MICHAEL MCAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Originally Published:Wednesday, May 12th 2010, 7:23 PM
Updated: Wednesday, May 12th 2010, 11:07 PM
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON - Eleven days after the botched plot to bomb Times Square, the Obama administration on Wednesday slashed some $53 million from the city’s terror-fighting budget.”
“Times Square terror suspect Faisal Shahzad picked up cash for plot at L.I. Dunkin’ Donuts: sources”
BY BEVERLY FORD IN WATERTOWN, MASS., AND ALISON GENDAR, JAMES GORDON MEEK, KEVIN DEUTSCH AND LARRY MCSHANE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Friday, May 14th 2010, 4:00 AM
SNIPPET: “He has a black heart - and a sweet tooth.
The Times Square terror suspect got $4,000 cash for his warped plot in a clandestine meeting at a Long Island Dunkin’ Donuts, sources told the Daily News on Thursday night.
Faisal Shahzad drove from Connecticut to the doughnut shop near the Ronkonkoma Long Island Rail Road station to pick up his blood money, the sources said.
The doughnut connection came on a day of fast-breaking developments in the probe - including the arrest of three Pakistani nationals.”
“Pakistan holds man linked to New York bomb suspect”
Friday, 14 May, 2010
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON: Pakistan has arrested a suspect linked to the Pakistani Taliban who said he helped the man accused of trying to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The suspect provided an “independent stream” of evidence that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was behind the failed attack on May 1, the newspaper said, citing US officials.
The suspect also admitted helping Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American man being held over the Times Square plot, to travel to Pakistan’s tribal areas for bomb-making training, the report said.
Officials familiar with the investigation cautioned that there have been inconsistencies in the two suspects’ accounts, the Post said.
The suspect in Pakistani custody “is believed to have a connection to the TTP,” a US intelligence official was quoted as saying.”
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2010/05/pakistani_taliban_take_credit_1.php
“Pakistani Taliban take credit for failed Times Square attack, again”
By BILL ROGGIO
May 14, 2010 12:15 PM
Previously...
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/05/fbi_raids_in_connect.php
“FBI raids in connection with Times Square plot, two Pakistanis detained”
By WES BRUER
May 13, 2010 11:10 AM
SNIPPET: “Two men of Pakistani descent have been arrested, and one has been identified as Pir Khan, who is facing administration charges for overstaying his visa, not criminal charges. The other man has an order of removal against him, meaning the federal government determined that he had to leave the country.”
“Mohammad Iqbal demands apology from FBI for being ‘racially profiled’ in 5-hour terror questioning”
BY KEVIN DEUTSCH AND LARRY MCSHANE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Saturday, May 15th 2010, 4:00 AM
SNIPPET: “The federal agents took four computers, two cell phones, a journal - and his dignity, Iqbal said.”
SNIPPET: “Agents mostly asked about his friend Muhammad Younis, whose Centereach, L.I., home was also raided, and accused terrorist Faisal Shahzad, Iqbal said.”
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cartoonjihad/index?tab=articles
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/times-square-jihadist-rejected.html
(CNN.com)
“Times Square jihadist rejected moderation as contrary to Qur’an”
New York (CNN) —
SNIPPET: “The e-mail continues: “It is with no doubt that we today Muslim, followers of Islam are attacked and occupied by foreign infidel forces. The crusade has already started against Islam and Muslims with cartoons of our beloved Prophet PBUH (peace be upon him) as War drums.”
Shahzad was referring to the 2005 controversy in which a Danish newspaper published satirical cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that many Muslims found offensive.”
Note: Photos included.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1964/hearing-verifies-reports-on-times-square-bomb
“Hearing Verifies Reports on Times Square Bomb Plotter”
IPT News
May 19, 2010
SNIPPET: “Alleged Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad made his first court appearance Tuesday evening since his arrest on May 3. While federal prosecutors used the opportunity to confirm some earlier reports regarding the investigation, new details continue to emerge about the failed terrorist attack.
During the 10-minute hearing at the federal courthouse in Manhattan, prosecutors confirmed what has already been widely reported. Shahzad waived his right to a speedy court appearance and to an attorney, and explained that he has been cooperating with law enforcement officials”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2518378/posts
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/may/police-knew-time-square-bomb-accomplice-was-illegal-alien
“Police Knew Time Square Bomb Accomplice Was Illegal Alien”
Last Updated: Thu, 05/20/2010 - 3:30pm
SNIPPET: “Khan easily obtained the cabbie license and regularly drove around one of the nation’s busiest airports with few restrictions. In fact the Boston Police Hackney Division approved Khan’s license to drive a taxi 13 times since he first applied in 1997.
There’s more alarming information about Khan that was disregarded by Boston authorities. As a gas-station employee he somehow had enough cash to buy $190,000 worth of shares in Boston taxi medallions, according to one news report, that points out no red flags were raised. Khan doubled his money just a few years later when he sold the shares, but no one bothered to look into the matter.”
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Note: Photo and video enclosed.
http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/undercover/insight-into-pir-khans-past-20100518
“Insight into Pir Khan’s past”
Updated: Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 8:44 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 6:26 PM EDT
Mike Beaudet
FOX Undercover
BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) -
SNIPPET: “The Boston Police Hackney Division approved Khan’s license to drive a taxi 13 times since he first applied in 1997. The paperwork reveals that Khan also worked at a pizza shop, in construction and drove a Cambridge taxi.
Khan also says he worked for the same Brookline gas station owner as his roommate, who was also detained.
Pir Khan indicates that he came to the United States from Pakistan in 1991 and said that he had never committed a crime. His record as a cab driver in Boston was clean.”
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“3 detainees gained path by marriage
Possible fraud investigated after all wed US women”
(May 23, 2010)
Archived links:
s88179113.onlinehome.us/2010-05-28/faloja-analysis_of_TSq-t%3D116632p1.html
s88179113.onlinehome.us/2010-05-28/faloja-analysis_of_TSq-t%3D116632p2.html
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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006843.html
28 May 2010
“JIHADI ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION OF THE TIMES SQUARE ATTACK”
Archived Link:
s88179113.onlinehome.us/2010-05-28/top_three.jpg
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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006842.html
28 May 2010
“”WORKING” LINKS TO THREE FAVORITE FORUMS”
SNIPPET: “At least they work for one brother:”
www.flashpoint-intel.com/images/documents/faisaluk0705.wmv
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2010/05/jamaican_cleric_shaykh_abdulla.php
“Jamaican Cleric Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal Alleged To Have Inspired Times Square Suspect”
By Evan Kohlmann
(May 19, 2010)
June 17, 2010
NOTE The following text is a quote:
http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nyfo061710a.htm
Faisal Shahzad Indicted for Attempted Car Bombing in Times Square
WASHINGTON—A federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York has returned a 10-count indictment charging Faisal Shahzad for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1, 2010, the Justice Department announced today.
Shahzad, 30, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, was taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK Airport) on May 3, 2010, after he was identified by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection while attempting to leave the United States on a commercial flight to Dubai. Shahzad was then charged in a five-count criminal complaint. On May 18, 2010, he was presented in Manhattan federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis, IV.
The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the Southern District of New York. Shahzad is expected to be arraigned by Judge Cedarbaum on June 21, 2010, at noon.
“The facts alleged in this indictment show that the Pakistani Taliban facilitated Faisal Shahzad’s attempted attack on American soil,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. “Our nation averted serious loss of life in this attempted bombing, but it is a reminder that we face an evolving threat that we must continue to fight with every tool available to the government.”
According to the indictment filed today and the criminal complaint:
In December 2009, Shahzad received explosives training in Waziristan, Pakistan, from explosive trainers affiliated with Tehrik-e-Taliban, a militant extremist group based in Pakistan. On Feb. 25, 2010, Shahzad received approximately $5,000 in cash in Massachusetts sent from a co-conspirator (CC-1) in Pakistan whom Shahzad understood worked for Tehrik-e-Taliban. Approximately six weeks later, on April 10, 2010, Shahzad received an additional $7,000 in cash in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., which was also sent at CC-1’s direction.
On March 15, 2010, Shahzad purchased a semi-automatic 9 millimeter Kel-Tec rifle in Connecticut. This rifle was found, loaded, in Shahzad’s car on the day of his arrest.
In April 2010, Shahzad contacted the seller of a Nissan Pathfinder after seeing an advertisement posted on a website. Thereafter, on April 24, 2010, Shahzad and the seller of the Pathfinder agreed to meet in a supermarket parking lot in Connecticut, where Shahzad paid the seller $1,300 for the Pathfinder. In April 2010, Shahzad also purchased components for the improvised explosive and incendiary devices that he loaded into the Pathfinder on May 1, 2010.
On May 1, 2010, Shahzad drove the Pathfinder, loaded with the improvised explosive and incendiary devices, to Manhattan and parked the Pathfinder in Times Square in the vicinity of 45th Street and Seventh Avenue. After parking the Pathfinder, Shahzad attempted to begin the detonation process of the improvised explosive and incendiary devices. Thereafter, Shahzad abandoned the Pathfinder and returned to his residence in Connecticut.
On May 3, 2010, Shahzad drove from Connecticut to JFK Airport as he attempted to flee to Dubai. He was arrested later that same day at JFK. After his arrest, Shahzad admitted that he had recently received bomb-making training in Pakistan. He also admitted that he had brought the Pathfinder to Times Square and attempted to detonate it.
The indictment filed today charges Shahzad with 10 offenses which carry the following potential penalties:
Count 1 – Attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, life in prison.
Count 2 – Conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, life in prison.
Count 3 – Possession of a firearm during and in relation to a conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, life in prison.*
Count 4 – Attempted act of terrorism transcending national boundaries, life in prison.
Count 5 – Conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries, life in prison.
Count 6 – Attempted use of a destructive device during and in relation to a conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries, life in prison.*
Count 7 – Transportation of an explosive, 10 years in prison.
Count 8 – Conspiracy to transport an explosive, 10 years in prison.
Count 9 – Attempted destruction of property by fire and explosive, 20 years in prison.*
Count 10 – Conspiracy to destroy property by fire and explosive, 20 years in prison.*
* Counts three, nine and 10 each carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison. Count six carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 30 years in prison. If there are convictions for counts three and six, a sentence of life in prison is mandatory.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stated: “Today’s 10-count indictment returned in the Southern District of New York charges Faisal Shahzad with conspiring with the Pakistani Taliban to wreak death and destruction in Times Square. This office will continue to work in lock-step with our partners at the FBI and the NYPD to protect New York City from the threat posed by terrorists and those who would support them.”
FBI New York Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos stated: “Today’s indictment of Faisal Shahzad is a major step in this important investigation. Shahzad was allegedly ready to commit a horrendous crime in the heart of New York. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) quickly went into high gear to identify and arrest Shahzad. We will not let our guard down as we work to protect our city, our citizens, our visitors and our country.”
“Today’s indictment is a stark reminder that New York remains a terrorist target and that we must be vigilant to protect the City,” said Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner for the City of New York.
The indictment was the result of the investigative efforts of the FBI’s JTTF in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, especially those JTTF members from the FBI and the New York City Police Department. U.S. Customs and Border Protection also made significant contributions to the case. Substantial assistance was also provided by the Justice Department’s National Security Division, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Districts of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
The prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brendan R. McGuire, Randall W. Jackson, John P. Cronan and Jeffrey A. Brown of the Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
The charges and allegations contained in the indictment are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Oh look, it’s a whole bunch more white guys on this background page - top link:
www.youtube.com/user/talibjan02
www.youtube.com/user/fazalhazswat
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Quote:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202942.php
June 18, 2010
YouTube User Fazalhazswat Doesn’t Suppport Terrorism?
YouTube user fazalhazswat, aka Tahreek-e-Taliban Swat, has this on his channel:
Click to enlarge
“Take this gun and kill an US NATO & ISAF Soldiers”
“Put this on your page is you are against terrorism”?
Why not go over to Google’s YouTuve and report his profile. BTW, the Tahreek-e-Taliban wwere behind Faisal Shahzad’s failed Times Square bombing. Interesting choice of a YouTube name, wouldn’t you say? fazalhazswat
Found him by following “subscription link” from youtube/user/talibjan02. YouTube still doesn’t get, or ignores “what’s in a name” - gawd.
Thanks to Mean Kitteh
By Allahakchew aka SH at June 18, 2010 04:37 PM
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