Sunday, February 28, 2010

NYC: Amputee Arrested in Alleged Bomb Attempt – Harlem Station

Via NTA

An amputee missing both legs was arrested Thursday after police said he was wheeled into a busy New York City train station and planted a bomb.

Police found the bomb before it could detonate, but the discovery interrupted regional train lines briefly and closed the station for several hours.

The alleged device—a bag of small explosives wrapped in shotgun shells, along with bullets, glue, lug nuts, pens and a ruler—was left in a waiting area at a station in Harlem. Police later surveyed security videos to identify suspects including, Roosevelt Terry, the amputee.



My question: Why in Harlem?

This may be more than just another Jihadist attack.

3 comments:

revereridesagain said...

That is the commuter rail station stop at 125th St. in East Harlem. It is above ground. If he left it there he was going after the commuter and express train traffic, not the subway. Could be a feeler/dry run thinking no one would suspect a double amputee or it could have been Mr. Terry's own little SJS effort.

Interesting.

revereridesagain said...

Actually, they said it was left in a waiting area but it could have been brought onto a train as well. When I lived in NYC there were always panhandlers, some of them amputees who rolled themselves along seated on carts working the subway trains. I don't remember seeing any last couple of times I was there, but they might have thought there would be less attention paid to an amputee.


Apparently not.

Pastorius said...

I'm guessing we'll never find out.