Times Square Terror Alert

[res0nat0r]

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Actually this is revenge for killing 2 people, not thousands. Dont forget you canucks are there too, if it got as much press they would go after you guys too. Would you be so giddy then?

[88Mariner]

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I am vindicated yet again. I said months ago that Paki's were gonna start bombing the US because of the drone bombings in Pakistan. This has nothing to do with "our way of life" this is revenge for the massacre of thousands of Paki's. There are over 1 million displaced as well because of the US involvment in Pakistan.

Did you think you could just drop bombs on people and they wouldn't seek revenge?

I don't think anyone thought that. Well, at least not me. However, this is a wing of the Taliban IN pakistan

This isn't the Pakistani military. Rogue groups not authorized by the government to act on their behalf have no moral authority to retaliate. This would be no different if the Ku Klux Klan decided to firebomb a mosque in saudi arabia.

[toasty]

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I am vindicated yet again. I said months ago that Paki's were gonna start bombing the US because of the drone bombings in Pakistan. This has nothing to do with "our way of life" this is revenge for the massacre of thousands of Paki's. There are over 1 million displaced as well because of the US involvment in Pakistan.

Did you think you could just drop bombs on people and they wouldn't seek revenge?

You would have to be a complete and total simpleton to see this event and conclude that it vindicates you in any --

Wait, never mind, carry on...

[res0nat0r]

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Could just be some militia redneck:

http://wcbstv.com/local/suspicious.package.fire.2.1669044.html

The homemade bomb was made largely with ordinary items, including three barbecue grill-size propane tanks, two 5-gallon gasoline containers, store-bought fireworks and cheap alarm clocks attached to wires.

A Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for the failed attack in a 1-minute video. Kelly, however, said police have no evidence to support the claims, and noted that the same group had falsely taken credit for previous attacks on U.S. soil. The commissioner also cast doubt on an e-mail to a news outlet claiming responsibility.

If the claim is genuine, it would be the first time the Pakistani Taliban has struck outside of South Asia. It has no known global infrastructure like al-Qaida.

Lets not take these first-minute accounts as Truth and see how it plays out.

[88Mariner]

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^ what bugs me is that, that video came out almost simultaneous...as if it was pre-recorded......so that makes one wonder.....what bombing are they talking about??

[88Mariner]

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I just saw the surveillance video they're using to say it was some white dude. I'm not sure how they get to that conclusion (unless there is more video tape) - the guy was not walking from the car, it's pretty clear that he had just rounded the opposite corner. I get the sense that Napolitano is trying to raise the fear of militias in the US in order to clamp down on blue-haired grannies in the tea party.

And as far as militias go: this was parked outside of a friggin broadway theater. Since when do militias have an interest in blowing up or attacking non-government facilities? And so, the suspicion that this is trying to be sold to the public as a 'fear the tea party' schtick is becoming more and more clear to me.

[chunky]

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I just saw the surveillance video they're using to say it was some white dude. I'm not sure how they get to that conclusion (unless there is more video tape) - the guy was not walking from the car, it's pretty clear that he had just rounded the opposite corner.

No mate there will be at least 100 eyewitnesses who claim they saw him get out of the car and the only reason the CCTV didn’t catch was because the building was built in 1907 and the CCTV was installed around the same time. You would actually see the man leave the car but the CCTV had a slow shutter speed
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[res0nat0r]

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not everything that happens everywhere in life is filmed with the same cameras Cameron used to film Avatar.

...shouldn't you be telling us that this was actually a nuclear warhead but it 'vanished' after it didn't go off and you have the evidence, but no one believes you?

[88Mariner]

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No mate there will be at least 100 eyewitnesses who claim they saw him get out of the car and the only reason the CCTV didn’t catch was because the building was built in 1907 and the CCTV was installed around the same time. You would actually see the man leave the car but the CCTV had a slow shutter speed
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Chunky, you completely missed the point bro.

The camera was pointed right at the truck - and it was inside what appears to be a restaurant facing that corner. What of the rest of the footage? And still, this guy is nowhere near that truck, and does not appear to be walking from the truck at all. I'm not sure where you pull that random nonsense from, but it has no relevance to my post in the slightest.

I guess this is some lame attempt at a joke? I give it a 2/10.

On a side note, just imagine how bad this would impact our markets if it came out that a foreign terrorist came within minutes of detonating a car bomb that would have killed dozens....and that we didn't stop it. I think there's good reason not to paint the perp as plain vanilla...

[res0nat0r]

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I just dont see the super huge scare every time this happens. It is fucked up and yes it is happening, but is it really that hard to do? I mean someone could walk down to the middle of times square with a backpack filled with hand grenades, pull the pin on one and boom. Its not that hard to kill a big group of people with a bomb, all it takes is just someone fucked up enough to do it.

[88Mariner]

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not everything that happens everywhere in life is filmed with the same cameras Cameron used to film Avatar.

...shouldn't you be telling us that this was actually a nuclear warhead but it 'vanished' after it didn't go off and you have the evidence, but no one believes you?

Not sure if you're replying to me (but do get in the habit of using the 'reply w/ quote' button -

If the federal authorities are interested in trying to help catch this suspect, and it's pretty clear they are (or why else did they release the video??), then they're basing their entire assumption of who did this on a guy who 1) isn't near the truck 2) was walking in the trucks direction before he rounded the corner (meaning he wasn't walking away from the truck, but towards it), 3) he was taking a shirt off (er, it was 85 degrees in NYC), 4) and the only other connection was that he popped his head back to look at something (perhaps the truck, perhaps something else?).

I'm not sure why the few seconds preceeding the clip they've given to the news media were not added? again, i suspect it's to 1) alleviate fears of a foreign terrorist getting at us in NYC again and 2) napolitano's clear wish to round up every last person who happens to take a negative view of the government. and I further support that with the fact that american terrorists either target government buildings or abortion doctors, this car was not parked at a government building or an abortion clinic, and when american terrorists actually put a bomb together (unabomber, mcveigh), they actually do so skillfully (unlike the derp who screwed this one up... much like the underpants bomber on that flight around nye).

[res0nat0r]

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^nah it was chunky

[88Mariner]

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I just dont see the super huge scare every time this happens. It is fucked up and yes it is happening, but is it really that hard to do? I mean someone could walk down to the middle of times square with a backpack filled with hand grenades, pull the pin on one and boom. Its not that hard to kill a big group of people with a bomb, all it takes is just someone fucked up enough to do it.

of course it's not scary. until it actually detonated, so i think that's a little quarterbacking a bit, no? the point of terrorism is to either destroy government facilities or to scare the shit out of an otherwise docile public.

I agree - it isn't difficult to kill a large group of people with a bomb. It's that lone wolf scenario that is the most troubling. The guy who doesn't communicate anything to be intercepted. The guy who is unknowing, who doesn't fit the profile of a terrorist. That guy is unstoppable.

[chunky]

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Chunky, you completely missed the point bro.

The camera was pointed right at the truck - and it was inside what appears to be a restaurant facing that corner. What of the rest of the footage? And still, this guy is nowhere near that truck, and does not appear to be walking from the truck at all. I'm not sure where you pull that random nonsense from, but it has no relevance to my post in the slightest.
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Sorry man it wasnt realy a responce to your post. I was having a laugh at reso think thinks the CCTV at the Pentagon was installed the year it was built and that there was only one camera on that area of the Pentagon with such a slow shutter speed that it failed to pick up any footage of an aircraft.

[res0nat0r]

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I agree - it isn't difficult to kill a large group of people with a bomb. It's that lone wolf scenario that is the most troubling. The guy who doesn't communicate anything to be intercepted. The guy who is unknowing, who doesn't fit the profile of a terrorist. That guy is unstoppable.

Exactly.

Sorry man it wasnt realy a responce to your post. I was having a laugh at reso think thinks the CCTV at the Pentagon was installed the year it was built and that there was only one camera on that area of the Pentagon with such a slow shutter speed that it failed to pick up any footage of an aircraft.