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NEW YORK (AP) – Police evacuated buildings and cleared streets of thousands of tourists around New York City’s Times Square after finding an apparent car bomb in a parked SUV (Nissan Pathfinder).
New York City police said a mounted police officer noticed smoke coming from the SUV at 6:30 p.m. A law enforcement official tolds The Associated Press that bomb investigators found propane tanks, powder and an apparent timing device inside the vehicle.
Times Square, known as the Crossroads of the World, is one of the busiest urban areas in the U.S. and is typically teeming with people.
Police evacuated several residential and commercial buildings and cleared several streets of thousands of tourists milling around on a warm Saturday night.
Police said the car was parked on 45th Street and the block was closed between Seventh and Eighth avenues as a precaution.
Paul Bresson, head of the FBI’s public affairs office at bureau headquarters in Washington, said agents are on the scene with the New York Police Department and that the matter is being taken seriously.
NEW YORK (AP) – Pedestrians were barred from parts of New York City’s Times Square as police closed streets to investigate a car that has been “deemed suspicious”.
A senior Obama administration official said a Nissan Pathfinder was found with a suspicious package, but officials are not yet sure whether it was a bomb. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to speak on the matter. …
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2126 Boston Ave.
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Located On Route 1, Bridgeport/Stratford Line
False license plates from a junked Ford F150 pickup truck at Kramers Auto Recycling 11 Old South Avenue in Stratford, Connecticut. I guess they recycle license plates too!
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Police released the surveillance video late Sunday night. It shows a man looking around, then removing a dark shirt to reveal a lighter one underneath.
“We’re currently examining video that shows a white male in his 40s in Shubert Alley, looking back in the direction of West 45th. He was also shedding a dark colored shirt, revealing a red one underneath.”
Police had already identified the registered owner of the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder — which didn’t have an easily visible vehicle identification number and had license plates from another car — and were looking to interview him. Police also were searching more video, believed to be in the possession of a Pennsylvania tourist, of the man in the alley.
Police released a photograph of the SUV, a dark-colored Nissan Pathfinder, as it crossed an intersection at 6:28 p.m. Saturday. A vendor pointed the SUV out to an officer about two minutes later.
The license plate found on the vehicle did not belong to the SUV; police said it came from a car found in a repair shop in Connecticut.
Duane Jackson, a 58-year-old handbag vendor from Buchanan, N.Y., said he noticed the car and wondered who had left it there in a no-standing zone.
Jackson said he looked in the car and saw keys in the ignition with 19 or 20 keys on a ring. He said he alerted a passing mounted police officer.
Times Square vendors Lance Horton, Duane Jackson alerted cops to Times Square car bomb
(CT Post) – The Connecticut license plate on the explosives-packed Nissan Pathfinder was found to have been taken from a Ford pickup truck recently sent for repair to Kramer’s Used Auto Parts on Old South Avenue in Stratford. Several sources said a vehicle identification number found on a replacement part on the Pathfinder was also from a vehicle last tracked to Kramer’s.
Federal, New York state and New York City investigators went to the Norwalk home of
NormanWayne LeBlanc shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, a police source said, adding that LeBlanc, whose family has owned Kramer’s and other area auto parts businesses, then took the investigators to the Stratford junkyard.Vehicle’s license plate led FBI to Wayne LeBlanc’s junkyard
The license plate was traced back to a different vehicle that was awaiting repairs in Stratford, Conn., where FBI agents and the local police awoke the owner of the repair shop at 3 a.m. Sunday.
The shop owner, Wayne LeBlanc, who runs Kramer’s Used Auto Parts, said authorities seized a black Ford F150 pickup.
“We’re trying to help them identify who took the plates,” he said.
≈ Cross-posted from Steven D’s fp story — White Taliban Bomber in Times Square? ≈
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
Propane tanks do not a car-bomb make. Everybody has been watching too many Hollywood movies, and buying too much Homeland Security bullshit.
Yes, propane tanks really could total a car. And seriously endanger by-standers. I mean literal by-standers, not people across the street or down the block.
This is not what insurgents use in Iraq, nor what any real terrorists use anywhere. When the Chechens blow up a station on the Moscow subway, do they use propane tanks? No–and there is a reason for that.
Notice how quickly NYC is moving in with new Big-Brother cameras to watch the public!
Oh–and smoke helpfully pouring out of the car! This has the characteristic aroma of a false-flag operation.
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“UK sets the benchmark (standard) for project possibility/feasibility (Allah s.w.t. knows best)”
Source: al-Qaeda manual
The BBC reports that the car was “packed with 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails,” and noted the similarity to a plot by Dhiren Barot, who “was jailed for life last November for conspiring to park limousines packed with gas canisters underneath high-profile buildings before detonating them.”
Back in November, Hambling took note of the so-called “Gas Limos” scheme, and observed that those cylinders might be an attempt to trigger a devastating fuel-air explosion.
Gas Limos Project
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
These methods are not credible.
There are ways to make real bombs, but real bombs are not made this way.
Not even incendiary bombs. I won’t describe what you could do, but it isn’t hard: You could figure it out. You wouldn’t do what these guys did!
So are we dealing with real terrorists who happen to be fools, and also unconnected to any competent or famous terrorist organization?
Or are the false flag media events?
Or are they something else?
If we knew the real details, then we would know, but media reports are always sketchy on factual details.
Sometimes, though, the State’s response makes it all clear–brings it into focus.
Are the new security measures irrelevant as a response to the actual, putative attack? If so, what is the real meaning of the event?
As with the case in Times Square.
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(Philly.com) – After a two-day search of surveillance footage – video of alleged terror suspect Faisal Shahzad’s March 8 visit to a northeast Pennsylvania Phantom fireworks store in Matamoras (along the upper Delaware River town where Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York converge), was turned over to federal authorities.
The video reportedly shows Shahzad purchasing at least some of the 152 M-88 firecrackers recovered from his explosives-rigged SUV last weekend in New York’s Times Square.
The M-88s, being consumer-grade fireworks the size of a thumb, pack only a fraction of the explosive power of the similar sized M-80s, which cannot be purchased legally by the public, he said. M-88s, he added, must be lit individually or they will not explode; lighting one will not make a string of others go off – as Shahzad presumably had intended in order to detonate containers of gasoline in the vehicle.
What might have been
“Had he been able to purchase M-80s illegally, the outcome in Times Square would have been catastrophic,” Bruce J. Zoldan, owner of Ohio-based Phantom Fireworks said. “Those are 1,000 times more powerful than what he bought in our store, and a bag of M-80s would mass-explode.”
“Ammonium nitrate-based fertilizers, including calcium ammonium nitrate, produce effects similar to dynamite, and the mixture of urea and nitric acid produces explosives similar to nitroglycerine.”
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."