Taliban Responsible For Failed Bombing On US Soil

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The bomb that was almost detonated yesterday (the attack was stopped because of a veteran and two cops) in Times Square appears to be the work of the Taliban.

A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit for yesterday’s failed car bomb attack in New York City.

Qari Hussain Mehsud, the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, said he takes “fully responsibility for the recent attack in the USA.” Qari Hussain made the claim on an audiotape accompanied by images that was released on a YouTube website that calls itself the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel.

The tape has yet to be verified, but US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal believe it is legitimate. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel on YouTube was created on April 30. Officials believe it was created to announce the Times Square attack, and Qari Hussain’s statement was pre-recorded.

“This attack is a revenge for the great & valuable martyred leaders of mujahideen,” Qari Hussain said. He listed Baitullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Pakistani Taliban who was killed in a Predator strike in August 2009, and Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the former leader of al Qaeda Islamic State of Iraq who was killed by Iraqi forces in mid-April. And although he was not mentioned, an image of Abu Ayyub al Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was also displayed in the images accompanying the audiotape.

Qari Hussain also said the failed attack was “revenge for the Global American interference & terrorism in Muslim countries, especially in Pakistan for Lal Masjid operation,” a reference to the July 2008 Pakistani military assault on Islamists holed up in the Red Mosque in Islamabad, as well as Predator strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas and the arrest and detention of Pakistani scientist Aifa Siddique.

Qari Hussain warned NATO that it must denounce the US and apologize for “the massacres in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistani tribal areas otherwise be prepared for the worst destruction and devastation in their regions.”

At the opening of the tape, the failed car bomb was described as a “jaw-breaking blow to Satan USA,” however Mayor Michael Bloomberg described the device, which failed to detonate, as “amateurish.”

A video the terrorists put up on youtube has been removed, still looking to get a copy.

If true, and since the video was made prior to the bombing I have no reason to believe it isn’t true, this is evidence the Taliban and al-Qaeda came a hairs breath away from attacking on our shores once again.

Maybe Obama and pals can read the “suspects” their miranda rights and get to the bottom of this.
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What’s crazy is that I was just a few blocks away and had no idea of anything until I got home! I had friends who couldn’t get to their apartments because the streets were blocked. A couple of weeks ago, I saw what appeared to be an abandoned suitcase in Port Authority, and not being able to locate a police or PA officer in a comfortable amount of time, dialed 911. There were a few people around me who scoffed at my concern, and a maintenance worker who said he noticed the same thing and “hoped” it wasn’t anything while he continued to sweep. But this tells me I did the right thing, even though it turned out to be nothing.

When they do succeed in setting off a weapon here, the libs will blame Bush.

Well, I guess Chuckie Schumer will be busy, backpeddling from his this AM’s assertations before interview cameras that there was no increased chatter, or they would have known about it. (In interview with Candy Crowley, Reliable Sources). Therefore, according to him, this was likely the work of a lone wolf homegrown terrorist.

Slow down before you hit the microphones, Chuck. Then follow these instructions…. Open mouth, remove foot, insert the other foot….

Since it was a failure, I’m honestly surprised that ANYONE took credit for it…

@TexasFred:

That’s why it’s called “Terrorism” – they may failed at the bomb attempt, but they certainly scared a bunch of people! They like that. When we NYers start looking over our shoulders at every parked car, they’ll gladly take credit for it.

And that’s why I’m heading back into Times Square right now, on this beautiful summery day, to simply enjoy myself. I’ll head over to St. Patrick’s to pick up a gift for my niece’s First Communion, then I’ll take a walk into Central Park… and I’ll be aware of my surroundings as I always am, but I won’t be darting about like a pigeon. Then I’ll catch Nightmare on Elm Street at a Times Square theatre…. hopefull, THAT will scare me!

There is some question about whether the Taliban is just claiming credit. Reports today state that the bomb is much less sophisticated than the type that an experienced Taliban-trained terrorist would build.

Ditto ditto! :mrgreen:

Me thinks that some folks give al-Qaida and the Taliban far too much credit…

That’s why it’s called “Terrorism” – they may failed at the bomb attempt, but they certainly scared a bunch of people! They like that. When we NYers start looking over our shoulders at every parked car, they’ll gladly take credit for it.

Exactly Cary. I agree with you. The terrorists don’t give a rat’s you know what how sophisticated the bomb is, only that it scared the citizens of NY and caused an interruption into their normal daily routines.

Look the claim by the taliban-Al Queada was BEFORE the attack, taking credit ahead of time, and who ever said the bomb was inferior, is just not telling the truth. 3 Propane tanks, two gasoline tanks, with a detonator and nails that will create a lot of casualties, just ain’t inferior. the thing DIDN’T go off.

CARY:hi,you’r almost finish your book;could it be that the talibans was trying to check that book and steel it? 🙄 bye

Ok…….lemme see if I got this straight……..

London 2007:
Light GREEN Mercedes Benz loaded with
Propane bottles
Gasoline containers
Nails
Electrical wiring
Detonators

Glasgow Airport 2007
Dark GREEN Jeep Cherokee
Propane bottles
Gasoline containers
Detonators

New York City 2010
Dark GREEN Nissan Pathfinder
Propane bottles
Gasoline containers
“Consumer grade fireworks”
Electrical wiring
Detonators.

What the Hell is it with the GREEN cars?

Oh yeah. No connection here. As our illustrious Homeland Security Chief Janet Incompetano declares the incident a “one off”.
Good Lord…….nothing but clowns, morons and idiots “protecting” our country.

http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/RAPH6969/JN.jpg

Well, the terrorists are trying to get on Al Gore’s good side so they can be first in line for their handout when Cap & Tax kicks in. But someone should tell them that that isn’t the kind of “green” cars that the AGW nuts are talking about… 😆

JAINPHX: hi, you’r right,it is quite big explosion to kill quite a lot in a trafic zone;bye 🙄

@ilovebeeswarzone:

Haha – I just wrote a first draft – 103 pages in 30 days. But as all first drafts go, it still needs a lot of work, so I don’t know if they’d get much use out of it! Silly them!

@anticsrocks:

More than NY citizens on our daily routines, but people from all over the country and world on their vacations. There are more tourists in that area than NYers, and at least one Broadway show, The Lion King, which is a heavy family tourist attraction, was shut down. They don’t have to succeed at anything, but to scare people, who will then (they hope) hole themselves up at home instead of going out and enjoying themselves, thus slowing down any economic progress we could have. And that’s exactly why I went out today and spent some money! My brother texted me today saying he hoped I wasn’t in Times Square. I said I was, and that his daughter would be getting something in the mail soon! 🙂

As some of you know, in my novel “REVOLT” which was released this year , the President stages his own “terrorist” attack in NYC so he could push for deployment of soldiers to quell domestic terrorism and urban unrest.

In this case I hope it is some crazed jihadist because if it turns out to be a militia guy, Obama and his crew will use it as a tool to push his anti-gun, anti-tea party agenda.

If you don’t think making you all crazed dangerous protesters isn’t getting in the minds of the public check out this little event from Fort Knox in April when a commander decided the exercise he was training his troops for was a defense of the base from attacking “tea party protesters and militia, all bomb throwers.”

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/04/30/a-new-site-with-disturbing-news-us-army-trains-to-fight-bomb-throwing-tea-party-groups/

Watch as the left regains their footing and find a way to make this all YOUR fault.

ARCHER52:i bought your book a couple of weeks ago;now i hope you will apologyse for saying “if you dont like it,shoot yourself up” on a previous comment directed to me.that would be an easy way to end my anger toward you.

I wouldn’t make anything out of the bomb not going off as planned.
It isn’t like I never called an air strike to have the ordinance delivered exactly where I wanted it and there NOT to be a big KerBOOM soon there after.
Sometimes shit don’t happen like it is expected to. And depending on which side of the shit you are on, that is either a good thing or not.

Lucky for us, we were on the “Good Thing” side of this one.

But I remain uncomfortable with a national defense strategy of: “Hope the bad guys keep sending their third stringers to the states, and leave their 1st string varsity squad on in A-Stan and Iraq where we’ve promised to leave soon.”

RIDE A PALE HORSE: hi,on your 11,i think the color remind them of veggys;funny or not funny? 🙄 bye

Ilovebeeswarzone-

Thanks for buying the book. Not sure about the comment. Do you think I asked you to shoot yourself up?

I did not say such a thing nor do I have a reason to so don’t be angry. What happened that makes you think I did?

Heh, they gotta be terrible at terrorism. Country isnt scared, all they do is attack New York City. FAIL! Glad they arent very bright.

I,m sure glad the car bomber used firecrackers and non explosive fertilizer.

When Mayday was hollered from the Gulf, the Administration checked the immigrant protests on CNN, the “oil spill” in Arizona, and prepared for the Leno Gong Show that evening. Again, when advised to do something about the Mayday from the Gulf- send in the Justice department.

Quite a weekend!

@jainphx

The video in question (supposedly recorded on April 4th, and subsequently released on April 30,) only vaguely declares a planned suicide attack with no location other than “…in USA”. To positively state that it specifically is announcing the NY city car bomb is no more accurate proof then interpretation of a Nostradamus quatrain. What the video says is:

“God willing, very soon in some days or a month’s time, the Muslim (community) will see the fruits of most successful attacks of our fedayeen in USA.”

“Fedayeen” usually refers to suicide bombers, which the car bomb attempt in New York did not involve.

Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups have been know to produce many such vague threatening videos in order to generate an atmosphere of fear, often without any such attack ever taking place.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100502/wl_sthasia_afp/usattacksnewyorkclaimpolice
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/02/pakistani-taliban-claims-_0_n_560251.html
http://www.merinews.com/article/new-york-car-bomb-taliban-was-not-involved-all-details/15805969.shtml

oil guy from ALBERTA:hi, i did’nt know that fertilyser had 2 options;with or without explosifs,i hope they dont put the one with explosif in my veggys backyard;imagine some would explode as they eat a corn,it could happen if they do’nt look at the fine print when they buy the bag;bye 🙄

This is obviously the work of a hate-filled racist bigot homophobe Tea Partier.

NYPD: Time Square Suspect White, 40’s

OKAY,ARCHER52;I’ll take your word,as i can read between the lines;this is close issue:you where just in time,as i was going to tell ROBERT to talk to you,and send CRAWFORD to explain my anger.now i wont tell: 🙄 bye

Repeat after me: this is NOT a terrorist act. This was NOT done by a Muslim extremist. There is NO muslim extremism. There is NO connection with the Taliban.
This was a lone crazed tea-party person, homophobic, a right-wing paranoiac, a racist, a believer in black helicopters and the coming World Government.
Janet Napolitano has already identified me as a terrorist: former Army officer, weapons-trained, believer in the U S Constitution, Republican. What could possibly be more of a threat?
As Dan Rather would say, “we know that this story is true.”
The race is now on to collar some guy and sweat a confession out of him, in order to prove that the Main Stream Media are correct.
Of course any investigation of his phone calls, his emails, or his contacts will not be permitted, if Muslim.
And he will not be interrogated if Muslim, for Muslims are always mirandized and provided (gratis) with Covington and Burling attorneys.
The likelihood of arresting and charging a Muslim: zero.
We simply can’t have that.
It would be politically incorrect.
So some poor vagrant schlub, without the means to afford a car, will spend the rest of his life at Rykers Island for an activity which he did not commit.

Rides A Pale Horse

There may be more tame explanations, like green is a common enough color that it could just be chance–but to me, it’s that green is the color of Islam. So I’m green with paranoia.

Mathman,

Remember Richard Jewel? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell

I have a ton of issues with this “event” not the least the reporting that the “bomb” was almost a cobbled together mess that may have looked bad but could not detonate. What was the point? Send a message? Set up a situation? Create a new “monster” that Obama can exploit?

Hardly the work of a serious terrorist. It could be as simple as a dumba** trying to make a statement. OKC was the work of some people who had training and took the time to put the operation together. This doesn’t sound even remotely similar.

However, wait until the left gets around to exploiting it at some point. I can see Chuckie Schumer on Sunday’s shows just going at it. “Those crazy violent tea party people!”

via Twitter:

More Times Sq.: A sobering look at car bombs. A new threat for NYC streets. http://nyti.ms/cRsGxx

Yeah, Richard Jewell was wrongfully suspected when it was actually a right wing nut named Rudolph who did that one, and a couple other bombings. Likewise, I remember the OK City bombing had people initially suspecting Muslims. In fact, it was a hate filed White guy from middle America who thought he was doing something “patriotic” by blowing up a daycare, a DEA office, Social Security, etc.

PATTER:hi, you have to beleive me,that is the first thought i had,and ten i told me ,i wont mention,they will think,i am nut’s. 🙄 bye

CARY:hi, what do you know about the 2 VETS and a police who found it,and are they the HEROs who dismantle that bomb?. 🙄 bye

@ilovebeeswarzone:

Here’s an article telling more about the veteran who is a street vendor and the 3 police officers who responded:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/01/2010-05-01_times_square_evacuated_after_smoking_vehicle_sparks_emergency_probe.html?page=0

I imagine it was a bomb squad unit who dismantled the bomb, but perhaps Curt could give more info on how that works.

BROB,hi, we missed you,and you missed us too;i was reading you and[ hate fill white guy from middle AMERICA] and[ a right wing nut for rudolf] ;well we can name a lot of “left wing nuts also from all over AMERICA” and dangerous tooso do’nt tag anyone . 🙄 bye

There is breaking news on this:

BREAKING NEWS — Federal authorities arrested a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent Monday night at New York’s JFK International Airport in connection with Saturday’s attempted Times Square car bombing.

The man was identified as Faisal Shahzad, of Connecticut, Attorney General Eric Holder said. Shahzad was attempting to board a flight to Dubai at the time of his arrest, Holder said.

An international phone call made by the suspect earlier this week apparently “piqued the interest” of authorities investigating the failed attack on New York, and led to his arrest.

Source

Guess the Tea Partiers are off the hook.

@BRob…Rudolph was a kook, you are correct about that. Why his race has anything to do with it is beyond me. Oh yeah, I forgot. You are a lefty and like most lefties you are obsessed with race. Extremists on either end of the spectrum are abhorrent, whether they be right or left. Look at the pro immigration rallies recently as compared to the Tea Parties for the last year.

In Chicago last week, the local Fox station reported that “police clashed with demonstrators” and protesters blocked vehicles; 24 were arrested. A Sunday march in Santa Cruz, Calif., damaged 18 businesses, with repair costs reaching an estimated $100,000. In San Francisco, three people were beaten by protesters, with two arrested. During a pro-illegal-immigration protest outside the White House on Saturday, 35 were arrested.

Source

Many in the group were carrying makeshift torches as they marched, breaking storefront windows and writing “anarchist graffiti” on buildings, according to Capt. Steve Clark. Many businesses sustained multiple broken windows including very large storefront windows at Urban Outfitters and The Rittenhouse building. Police believe at least 15 businesses suffered damage.

The violence was initiated from a group holding a rally at the town clock for May Day. Windows at Jamba Juice and Velvet Underground were left shattered and graffiti including anarchy signs were tagged onto buildings.

Because of the size and violent demeanor of the crowd, Santa Cruz police asked for help from all agencies in the county to break up the riot. At one point, protesters lit a fire on the porch of Caffe Pergolesi and blocked access to firefighters, officers said. Police were able to clear out the demonstrators before more damage was caused.

Source

JOHN COOPER;NOW that we know it was a pakistan muslim american;what do you say against teaparty;they would have never done something to hurt americans,because they are protecting their own. 🙄 bye