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Title: Car bomb scares Times Square but fails to explode Post by: Allhallowsday on May 02, 2010, 09:43:22 AM Car bomb scares Times Square but fails to explode
NEW YORK – Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, authorities said Sunday. Thousands of tourists were cleared from the streets for 10 hours after two vendors alerted police to the suspicious vehicle, which contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "We avoided what we could have been a very deadly event," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "It certainly could have exploded and had a pretty big fire and a decent amount of explosive impact." The bomb appeared to be starting to detonate but malfunctioned, top police spokesman Paul Browne said Sunday... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_times_square_car_bomb (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_times_square_car_bomb) UPDATE: NYPD: No evidence of a Taliban link to SUV bomb http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_times_square_car_bomb (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_times_square_car_bomb) Title: Re: Car bomb scares Times Square but fails to explode Post by: Allhallowsday on May 04, 2010, 12:25:09 AM Official: Suspect in custody in NY car bomb attack
NEW YORK – A suspect in last weekend's failed car bomb attack on Times Square was taken into custody late Monday while trying to leave the country, a law enforcement official said. The suspect, a Pakistani, was identified at midnight Monday at John F. Kennedy International Airport and was stopped, said the official, who spoke to The Associated Press early Tuesday on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation. The suspect was identified as Faisal Shahzad, but his hometown wasn't disclosed. He was being held in New York. Law enforcement officials said he recently returned from a trip to Pakistan and bought the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder used in the failed car bomb three weeks ago and paid cash. The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_times_square_car_bomb (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_times_square_car_bomb) Pakistan native admits to Times Square bomb plot NEW YORK – Seized off a plane about to fly to the Middle East, a Pakistan-born man admitted training to make bombs at a terrorism camp in his native land before he rigged an SUV with a homemade device to explode in Times Square, authorities said Tuesday. Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen who recently spent five months in Pakistan, was arrested on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction charges for trying to blow up the crude gasoline-and-propane bomb amid tourists and theatergoers Saturday evening. He was in custody after being hauled off a Dubai-bound plane at Kennedy Airport that he had been able to board Monday night despite being placed on the federal "no-fly" list... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100504/ap_on_re_us/us_times_square_car_bomb (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100504/ap_on_re_us/us_times_square_car_bomb) |