{"id":18940,"date":"2010-05-03T07:14:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T12:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18940"},"modified":"2010-05-03T07:14:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T12:14:04","slug":"times-square-bombing-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18940","title":{"rendered":"Times Square bombing attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Wall Street Journal <\/a>, along with the rest of the media, is unconvinced that the attempted attack in Times Square was the result of an Al Qaeda plot; <\/p>\n

It is unclear whether the Times Square plot had links to Islamic or domestic extremism. A Pakistani-based Taliban group claimed credit for the aborted attack in an Internet video, although New York police said Sunday they had no evidence to support that claim. Police were searching for a white man in his 40s in connection with the attempt.<\/p>\n

Investigators have said that the crude explosives\u2014three tanks of propane, two jerrycans of gasoline, and commercially available fireworks linked to a simple timing device\u2014didn’t suggest much explosives expertise.<\/p>\n

However, the construction of the car bomb was similar to that used in an attempted attack on a British nightclub in 2007 and also bears resemblance to plans for further al Qaeda-linked attacks using vehicles packed with gas cylinders, counterterrorism investigators said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The media seems fixated on the “white man” in the video. personally, I don’t know how anyone arrived at that conclusion – he looks like he could be of Mediterranean or Semitic extraction. So I guess it depends on your definition of white man. So, I guess any minute, Mark Potok will be on cable news declaring that he’s been right all along about white terrorists based on this photo.<\/p>\n

Fox News reports<\/a> the motivations of the Taliban group accepting responsibility;<\/p>\n

The militant group said the attack was revenge for the death of its leader, Baitullah Mehsud, and the recent slaying of al-Qaida in Iraq leaders Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who were killed by U.S. and Iraqi troops last month north of Baghdad. The video also mentioned Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who was convicted in a U.S. court in New York in February of trying to kill American service personnel after her arrest in Afghanistan in 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But rest assured, says the Washington Post<\/a>, Obama is on this thing like ugly on an ape;<\/p>\n

As the investigation unfolded, the White House said President Obama was closely monitoring its progress as he toured the Gulf Coast to assess the threat posed by the widening oil spill. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the first few hours after find the bomb, DHS was saying that they weren’t sure if the incident was related to terrorism. That’s probably the most disingenuous thing that this administration has said since they told us Nidal Hassan was dead.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal claims that this is the latest in a series of attempted plots;<\/p>\n

Over the past year, on at least eight occasions, people linked to radical Islamic thought attempted or carried out attacks on targets in the U.S. The list includes the failed Christmas Day bombing on a Detroit-bound airliner, the shooting rampage at Ft. Hood in Texas, three bomb plots foiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last September, and a handful of earlier plots broken up last spring and summer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet, this administration does it’s level best to ignore the fact that we’re at war. Wish us luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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