New York City Police Close Times Square for Apparent Car Bomb
Bomb investigators found propane tanks, powder and an apparent timing device inside, according to a law enforcement official who wasn't authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity.
AP
May 1: A crowd gathers in Times Square near 46th Street in New York. Police have closed some streets in New York City's Times Square as they investigate a car that has been "deemed suspicious."
Police found an apparent car bomb in a parked sport utility vehicle Saturday evening in New York City's Times Square, then evacuated buildings and cleared streets of thousands of tourists in "the Crossroads of the World."
A mounted police officer noticed smoke coming from the SUV at 6:30 p.m., police said. Bomb investigators found propane tanks, powder and an apparent timing device inside, according to a law enforcement official who wasn't authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity.
An official tells Fox News that a dark SUV was found to have what initial reports indicated was a "failed incendiary device," including gasoline, propane and wires.
A man was seen running from the vehicle, but authorities have not been able to find or identify him.
Police evacuated several residential and commercial buildings and cleared the streets of people. Police were deployed around the area with heavy weapons on empty streets in the heart of midtown Manhattan that normally teem with thousands of theatergoers and tourists.
Shelly Carlisle, of Portland, Ore., said police crowded into her Broadway theater after the curtain closed on "Next to Normal," a show on the same block where the SUV was found.
"At the end of the show, the police came in. We were told we had to leave," Carlisle said. "They said there was a bomb scare."
The car was parked on 45th Street, and the block was closed between Seventh and Eighth avenues as a precaution, police said.
FBI agents are on the scene with the New York Police Department, and the matter is being taken seriously, said Paul Bresson, head of the FBI's public affairs office at bureau headquarters in Washington.
In December, a van without license plates parked in Times Square led police to block off part of the area for about two hours. A police robot examined the vehicle.
Clothes, racks and scarves were found inside.
I hate to say this but a jihadi would have probably stayed and gone on to his 72 year old virgin, not run away.
ReplyDeleteIf this is not the work of Islam, but some other whackjob, it will only add fuel to the Left's fire.
I agree, MR.
ReplyDeleteThis does not look like the work of a Jihadi.
"This does not look like the work of a Jihadi."-P
ReplyDeleteAaaah! Now I understand why this incident is not deemed "terror related". . .so "terror related" actually is a euphemism for Islam.
Somehow, I don't think that's what Napolitano/Obama want. Time to find a new euphemism.
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI think you hit the nail on the head.
The funny thing about euphemisms is they have to change them every time people figure out the actual definition of the word being used.
Hi.
ReplyDeleteThere's one other possibility.
If the whole thing was a set up to point the finger at lets say the "tea party" then it couldn't be done better.
I don't believe to much in coincidence.
You know, this could have been the work of a Jihadist, cuz if the detonator didn't work I think the Jihadist would run.
ReplyDeleteWill,
ReplyDeleteIf this was a setup, one would think there would have been some info to have come out by now that would point to the right.
But, as far as I know, there is no info so far.
By the way, I can't imagine that the Feds don't have this guy on camera.
Time Square HAS GOT TO BE FILLED WITH CAMERAS.
The other thing I thought was if it were Jihad, and they did run, it might have been so they could observe the response, whether the bomb went off or not.
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