Times Square Teabagger

[prole]

Yep, this was obviously a teabagger plot. The Pakistani they arrested is a front so that teabaggers can get more police state in our ass.

[Fairweather]

Yep, this was obviously a teabagger plot. The Pakistani they arrested is a front so that teabaggers can get more police state in our ass.

 

Sounds like a win-win for your moronic world view!

[billcoe]

Looks like Pakistan is also rooting out some homegrown Paki Teabaggers.... as you call them.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/05/04/international/i093845D93.DTL

 

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Pakistan makes arrests over Times Square bomb

 

By ASHRAF KHAN, Associated Press Writer

 

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

 

(05-04) 11:39 PDT KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) --

 

Pakistani authorities have detained several people in connection with the bombing attempt in New York's Times Square, intelligence officials said Tuesday.

 

One of the men, identified as Tauseef, was a friend of Faisal Shahzad, the American citizen of Pakistani origin who is in custody in the United States over the failed attack, one official said. He was arrested in the southern city of Karachi, said the official, who like all Pakistani spies refused to be named in the media.

 

Another official said several people had been taken into custody in Karachi since the failed attack Saturday. Some media reports described them as relatives of Shahzad.

 

Neither said when the detentions had taken place. They said no charges had been filed.

 

Shahzad was on board a Dubai-bound flight that was taxiing away from the gate at New York's Kennedy Airport late Monday when the plane was stopped and FBI agents and New York Police Department detectives took him into custody, law enforcement officials said.

 

U.S. officials have said the 30-year-old had recently returned from a five-month stay in Pakistan, raising speculation he may have been in contact with al-Qaida or Taliban groups in the South Asian country.

 

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said initial information showed Shahzad and his family came from the Pabbi region of northwest Pakistan, but that Shahzad had a Karachi identity card.

 

"We have to see whether it was an individual act or if it was a collective kind of act," he said.

 

Several Pakistani officials said U.S. authorities had not made a formal request for the country to help in the probe.

 

Two security officials in the northwest said Shahzad and his family came from the village of Mohib Bandar in Pabbi, but moved to the North Nazimabad district of Karachi several years ago. They said he was a graduate of an engineering college and the son of a senior Pakistani air force officer.

 

But a Shahzad family member in the region told a local journalist that the officials were mistaken and that the family had nothing to do with the suspect in the United States. Faisal and Shahzad are very common names in Pakistan.

 

One local television report said Shahzad spent time on his recent trip to Pakistan in Karachi and in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Peshawar is a gateway for foreigners seeking to travel into the nearby tribal regions where militant groups have long had sanctuaries.

 

Shahzad is suspected of driving a bomb-laden vehicle into Times Square last Saturday and parking it on a street lined with restaurants and Broadway theaters. He was expected in court to face charges later Tuesday."

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Lets call him the Unibrow bomber - now arrested. Reuters story

 

"(Reuters) - A Pakistani-American accused of driving a car bomb into New York's Times Square will be charged with an act of terrorism, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday as Pakistan arrested several relatives of the man.

 

Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, told authorities he acted alone in Saturday's failed bombing, but skeptical investigators are looking into his recent trip to Pakistan, a U.S. law enforcement source said.

 

Shahzad, 30, was arrested late on Monday night after he was taken off an Emirates airline plane that was about to take off for Dubai. Hours later, several relatives and a friend were arrested in Pakistan.

 

"We have picked up a few family members" related to Shahzad, a security official in Karachi said. A friend of Shahzad was also detained.

 

Shahzad is from the disputed Kashmiri region but it is not known if he was affiliated with any militant group, a source familiar with the investigation said. The source asked not to be named because the issue is sensitive.

 

"Which group he may have belonged to and how he became radicalized, we don't know yet," said the source.

 

Although markets shrugged off the New York car bomb attempt as a one-off situation, tensions are high among investors. News that police in London closed a subway station to investigate reports of a suspect package pushed U.S. stock index futures to session lows before the market opened on Tuesday.

 

Shahzad was due to appear in federal court later on Tuesday and would likely be charged with an act of terrorism and the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction among other offenses, Holder said. Had the bomb detonated, many people could have died, experts said.

 

"He's admitted to buying the truck, putting the devices together, putting them in the truck, leaving the truck there and leaving the scene," the law enforcement source told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. "He's claimed to have acted alone.

 

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Shahzad has provided investigators with useful information, but declined to discuss specifics at a news conference in Washington.

 

"It is clear that this was a terrorist plot aimed at murdering Americans in one of the busiest places in our country," Holder said. "If successful it could have resulted in a lethal terrorist attack, causing death and destruction."

 

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said it was the 11th thwarted attack on New York City since September 11, 2001.

 

President Barack Obama said the investigation would seek to determine if the suspect in custody had any connection with foreign extremist groups.

 

The Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility for the plot though several officials voiced scepticism about the claim.

 

If links were found between the failed bombing and Pakistan's Taliban, which claimed responsibility for it, Pakistan could come under renewed U.S. pressure to open risky new fronts against Islamic militants.

 

Shahzad and two others were arrested on board the plane after it had pulled away from the gate and was recalled, but the other two were cleared and allowed to travel, the Emirates airline said.

 

"Clearly the guy was on the plane and shouldn't have been and we got very lucky," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a news conference. However, Holder said Shahzad was being tracked and there was no danger of losing him.

 

Shahzad, who became a U.S. citizen last year, recently visited Pakistan for about five months, returning to the United States in February, the U.S. law enforcement source said.

 

"Based on our collective experience it's hard to really believe that this is something someone would do on their own. It seems hard to pull off alone. There's a lot we don't know yet," the source said.

 

Shahzad worked for about three years as a junior financial analyst in the Norwalk, Connecticut, office of the Affinion Group, a marketing and consulting business, the company said on Tuesday. Shahzad worked there until June 2009.

 

Shahzad is suspected of buying a 1993 Nissan sport utility vehicle used to carry the crude bomb, made of fuel and fireworks, into Times Square as the theatre and shopping area was packed with people on a warm Saturday evening.

 

Authorities searched Shahzad's home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the FBI said on Tuesday. An FBI spokeswoman did not say what authorities had found.

 

Saturday's failed bombing was the second significant plot in nine months targeting New York City. An Afghan immigrant, Najibullah Zazi, has pleaded guilty to plotting a suicide bombing campaign on Manhattan's subway system last September.

 

U.S. authorities disrupted that plot before Zazi and his accused accomplices were able to carry it out. Another Afghan-born man has pleaded guilty for his role in the plot.

 

Zazi admitted to receiving al Qaeda training in Pakistan."

 

 

[Nitrox]

Yep, this was obviously a teabagger plot. The Pakistani they arrested is a front so that teabaggers can get more police state in our ass.

 

Good thing the Muslim terrorist was slightly more incompetent than the Obama administration or there'd be more dead New Yorkers.

[111]

most media failed to mention that the man who first reported the smoking car was muslim.

[Stonehead]

And the initial person of interest was some 40yo, white guy who appeared in surveillance footage taking off his sweater.

[rob]

And the initial person of interest was some 40yo, white guy who appeared in surveillance footage taking off his sweater.

 

Yeah, well, he was looking around furtively.

[rob]

 

Good thing the Muslim terrorist was slightly more incompetent than the Obama administration or there'd be more dead New Yorkers.

 

Oh, you mean like what happened under the Bush administration?

[Nitrox]

 

Good thing the Muslim terrorist was slightly more incompetent than the Obama administration or there'd be more dead New Yorkers.

 

Oh, you mean like what happened under the Bush administration?

 

Bush's fault?

 

Bush's Fault!!!111!!!1111!!!

[olyclimber]

THATS RIGHT DOUCHENOZZLE. OBAMA PERSONALLY AVERTED THIS BOMBCAR FROM BLOWING UP AND DRESSED AS A MUSLIN HE ALERTED THE AUTHORITIES AND SAVED THE DAY. HOWZ THAT HOPEY CHANGEY WORKIN OUT FOR YA?