Cops Stop Car Bomb From Exploding in Times Square

rockdrummer said:
Did you read the first post in this thread?

That is how they indirectly prevented the bomb from detonating.
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So what caused the smoke and "fizzing"?
 
Reba said:
I'm sorry but the bomber was NOT interrupted. He was long gone before the police showed up.
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but 2 cops saw him. not sure why didn't they stop him but I believe they are rookie

Reba said:
Yet no one stopped this guy.
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shit happens. I'm just glad that NYPD does not treat every single person as potential terrorist.
 
Reba said:
So what caused the smoke and "fizzing"?
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Again from post #1

“It looks as if the perp was trying to light it up, and was interrupted by the cops, panicked and took off,” a law enforcement source said.

“It looked like someone tried to detonate it and we got to it in time,” another source said. “This is a big deal. It has the makings of a real car bomb.”
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rockdrummer said:
Did you read the first post in this thread?

That is how they indirectly prevented the bomb from detonating.
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There seems to be a conflict in reports:

Timeline of events in car bomb attempt in New York City's Times Square:

SATURDAY, May 1

• 6:28 p.m. A video surveillance camera shows a sport utility vehicle entering West 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue.

• 6:30 p.m. A T-shirt vendor notifies a mounted police officer of a car filling with smoke parked on the southwestern corner of West 45th Street and Broadway.

• 6:33 p.m. The officer circles the car on horseback and radios for help. Streets are closed and a perimeter is set up as people are told to clear out.
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Two female cops patrolling the area noticed a man fumbling with something in the back of a Nissan SUV parked on the southwest corner of 45th St. and Broadway about 7 p.m.
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According to the first report, the guy was gone by 6:30 p.m. In the second report, the two police officers saw the man fumbling at 7 p.m.

:hmm:
 
Reba said:
There seems to be a conflict in reports:

According to the first report, the guy was gone by 6:30 p.m. In the second report, the two police officers saw the man fumbling at 7 p.m.

:hmm:
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hence - my post

Jiro said:
koko - You might want to take "NY Daily News" with a very tiny grain of salt. NY Daily News is quite notorious for erroneous news and/or writing article with poor wording. They wrote an article about me and it was half-wrong. NY Daily News reporters tend to write article based on selective quotes and then frame around it with their wording. They get paid by number of words. :roll:
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it's a common knowledge around here and I don't know why koko seems to give more credibility to NY Daily News than my words :dunno:
 
Reba said:
There seems to be a conflict in reports:





According to the first report, the guy was gone by 6:30 p.m. In the second report, the two police officers saw the man fumbling at 7 p.m.

:hmm:
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conflict in reporting most likley
 
However - I'm wondering what time this picture was taken.

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it is possible that it's that one where 2 cops saw him at 7pm
 
Sigh. Where's the time stamp? This whole thing is turning into an orgy.
 
Maybe the time stamp has been cut off to prevent something from the public?

:laugh2: at koko I am sorry but your reply to my post was way off topic and definitely made me chuckle.

Jiro, yes - its may already and it is already 4 months... :shock: but I have the feeling that I want to go back but you know, I am glad I am going back soon. ;)
 
JClarke said:
Maybe the time stamp has been cut off to prevent something from the public?

:laugh2: at koko I am sorry but your reply to my post was way off topic and definitely made me chuckle.

Jiro, yes - its may already and it is already 4 months... :shock: but I have the feeling that I want to go back but you know, I am glad I am going back soon. ;)
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"Despite that..."
 
here's why terrorists failed in succeeding their plots

Evan F. Kohlmann
Terrorism consultant, Flashpoint Partners

Times Square bomb
Philadelphia, Pa.: I understand the Taliban group that claimed credit for the bomb has little credibility. What about this bomb and the evidence so far makes it seem likely this is not part of a Taliban or al Qaeda terror attempt?

Evan F. Kohlmann: The incendiary device in question here was cobbled together from ordinary items you can buy at regular stores. For lack of a better analogy, it's almost like a glorified Molotov cocktail. There was no fabrication of an explosive, there was no sophisticated wiring, there was no remote detonator, etc. In other words, you probably wouldn't need to attend a terror training camp -- or have any real knowledge of bomb-making -- to put a device like this together. The presumption, fair or not, is that if Al-Qaida or the Taliban were to actually assign someone to carry out a "jaw-breaking" attack inside the U.S., they would be at least skilled enough to understand how to put together a remote detonator. We will have to see whether that presumption holds true.
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Miami, Fla.: Why does the press avoid like the plague calling Americans domestic terrorists when they take actions identical to foreigners who get that designation for the same acts quite easily?

Evan F. Kohlmann: That is a frustrating element of this phenomenon. I know that a group of tea party activists were in a bit of a huff after I suggested that, aside from Al-Qaida, domestic right-wing extremists were another possible culprit. Likewise, there has been a tremendous reluctance on the part of some politicians to label the suicide attack on an IRS building in Texas as a terrorist attack. I wonder with some dismay whether their reaction would have been the same if the pilot behind the wheel had been an Arab or a Muslim.
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Arlington, Va.: Why is it that 9/11 was successful -- and devastating beyond anyone's expectations, if I recall right, even the perps' -- and yet after that we're seeing all these failed attacks recently where the perps seem to be stymied by their own stupidity?

Did they learn nothing from their success, or is some of what looks like bizarre bungling a consequence of tightened security making complex plans like 9/11 difficult or impossible?

Evan F. Kohlmann: The simple answer is that, prior to 9/11, terror groups like Al-Qaida were fairly centralized, with an organizational hierarchy, formal training camps, a written charter, etc. After 9/11, many of Al-Qaida's formal sanctuaries became war zones -- not the ideal place from which to organize a highly complex overseas operation. As Al-Qaida and other terror groups have become more decentralized and distended, the quality of their recruits and the training goes down significantly. However, at the same time, those recruits are coming from increasingly unusual backgrounds. So, it is more of a challenge to stop this new generation of terrorists before they reach their targets, but conversely, they can often be significantly less lethal than the "9/11" generation that preceded them.
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Jiro said:
nobody cares since it didn't blow up so that means front page headline just for 2 days before it disappears to page 5 or somewhere. :dunno:

notice how Arizona's immigration law news disappeared since Times Square bomb?
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Thats because everyone was "racial profiling" the perpetrator .....

oops, did I say that out loud??? :laugh2:
 
Here is what I think .... FWIW.

It was a Muslim Terrorist. The bomb was placed next to a Viacom building. That is owned by MTV and and Comedy Central.

Didn't they mock Mohamed on "South Park" recently? Islamic terrorists have threatened the creators of "South Park" for airing that episode.
 
Steinhauer said:
Here is what I think .... FWIW.

It was a Muslim Terrorist. The bomb was placed next to a Viacom building. That is owned by MTV and and Comedy Central.

Didn't they mock Mohamed on "South Park" recently? Islamic terrorists have threatened the creators of "South Park" for airing that episode.
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heard about that. have to check it out.
 
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