Times Square Locked down?
 

Anyone have any more details on The Times Square Lockdown today?

Seasoned intelligence and counter-terrorism experts will undoubtedly reveal it was the work of Radical Lutherans, an offshoot of the Hutaree militia :munchin

The Administration came out with this statement: No need to worry we have opened a dialogue with the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and the rest of the Muslim community, due to their admitted vulnerability we have increased our rules of engagement, requiring definite proof that a shot fired was intentional and was not an AD, but before returning fire, once it is approved by the senate committee on foreign relations, warning shots and 10 minutes of assessment must be given to each situation to make certain we are not undertaking action with frustration and misplaced aggressions.

As to the amateur terrorist truck bomb in the center of Times Square; and we place emphasis on amateur and terrorist, that exactly what it is, no need to worry, we have the boarder situation analyzed and are actively work on a solution that endears us to the 11 million new section 8 and health care recipients / voters. The Times square incident, like all others incidents which have occurred, or will, or might, including such things as the sinking of the South Korean warship, by a North Korean sub, will be down played , or ignored, as we do not want to be perceived as imperialist, reacting to national security issues thousands of miles away from our borders.

In closing the Presidents offers his sincere apology for the closing of shows this evening and once we understand the implication and impact of recent events will announce a press conference in the next couple of months.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...NewsCollection

Bomb Fears Shut Down Times Square

MAY 2, 2010, 12:57 A.M. ET
By R.M. SCHNEIDERMAN, SEAN GARDINER and ELLEN GAMERMAN
A failed car bomb shut down Times Square on Saturday night, causing panic, evacuations and confusion on one of the tourist spot's busiest and most crowded nights.

Police said a Nissan Pathfinder at West 45th Street and Seventh Avenue was loaded with a bomb made of electrical components, three propane gas tanks and two additional gas canisters. They received the call about the suspicious vehicle around 6:30 p.m. and blocked the area from West 43rd to 47th streets along Broadway and Seventh Avenue with metal railings. Parts of 48th Street were also closed.

Mayor MIchael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly were due to hold a news conference at Times Square at about 1 a.m. Sunday.

NYPD closed off streets from pedestrian and vehicle traffic.

Police said their suspicion was aroused because the vehicle's license plates didn't match the make of the car. They dispatched a bomb squad and a robot to check the car. Their attempts to break into the car alarmed some passersby.

Larry Franklin, 56, a street vendor said a friend reported a man to police who put keys in the black SUV and walked away. His friend told him smoke began coming out of the back and police rushed to the scene.

"I looked back and boom," said Matthew Fox, 44, a street vendor. "Everyone started running and women started screaming.""I was 10 blocks away from 9/11 when it happened," Fox said, "and this wasn't anything like that."

"It sounded like a deeper gun shot," said Ivan Morrison, 19, who was in town from Vermont to see "The Addams Family."

....By 11 p.m., a clerk at the Paramount Hotel on 46th between 7th and 8th said guests were not allowed to come in or out.

The clerk added that the Marriot Marquis on 46th and Broadway had been evacuated. Repeated calls to the Marriot weren't answered.

A clerk from the Hilton Times Square Hotel said that at least parts of 42nd Street were closed just before midnight and that guests can only enter or exit on 41st Street.

If we respond with fear, they win. No, it didn't go off but the psyops value is huge. Just as Doolittle's raid in the early days of WW2 did little physical damage, it bolstered and solidified the home front and scared the Japanese.

We need to respond with resolve. But then again, hard telling what BO will do.

Photo caption:

Street vendor Duane Jackson stands at his table a day after an alleged homemade bomb was found in a car directly behind where he is standing in Times Square in New York May 2, 2010. Jackson, who works the corner at 45th Street six days a week, was one of the street vendors who noticed the suspect vehicle. A car bomb defused in New York's Times Square was a potential terrorist attack, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Sunday, but officials held off identifying who may be responsible.

Obviously not another white male veteran Christian gun owner or racist Tea Party member, or it would have been all over the front page already.

Wild shot in the dark, but could it possibly have been one of those pesky, fun-loving Islamic terrorists?

TR

Give them another two hours...

Police and federal agents on Sunday were reviewing surveillance footage that shows a possible suspect in the failed Times Square car bombing, describing him as a white man in his 40s who was walking away from the area where the vehicle was parked, looking furtively over his shoulder and removing a layer of clothing, officials said.

Investigators were examining eight bags of an unknown, granular substance that was packed into a gun locker found in the vehicle, a dark green Nissan Pathfinder. A police bomb squad used an exploding charge to open the 75-pound locker on Sunday afternoon, discovering the substance and a metal pot containing a thicket of wires and M-88 firecrackers.

<snip>

Consumer-grade fireworks, resembling a model known as M-80s, were found taped around the outside of the gasoline cans, according to several people briefed on the contents of the car. Two clocks with batteries, including one that resembled a child’s toy, were connected to the device by small wires.

Investigators believe that the fuses on the firecrackers had been lit, but they did not explode, the people said. The burning fuses apparently ignited a portion of the car’s interior, causing a small fire that filled the inside of the car with smoke, one law enforcement official said.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/ny...er=rss&emc=rss

Richard

Heck, it only took two minutes...

FBI forensics lab have more than enough to work with.

Not conclusive but interesting nonetheless, it appears a youtube account claiming responsibility was created the 30th of April?
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archiv...taliban_cl.php

The video?
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202267.php

Edited to add:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202263.php

All Flavors of Looney
 

Islamic fundamentalist dirtballs can also be white and/or female, we can't forget that loser from Marin JWL, or that Jihad Jane person. Now that the Pakistani Taliban is claiming responsibility I hope we return the favor.

I hope we do as well...

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archiv...s_pakistan.php