While Big Sis wasn’t willing to come out and call it terrorism on Sunday, the word is out. We’re looking for a “a naturalized American citizen who hails from Pakistan and just returned after spending five months there”:
There is growing evidence the bomber did not act alone and had ties to radical elements overseas, with one senior official telling ABC News there are several individuals believed to be connected with the bombing and that at least one of them is a Pakistani-American.
Attorney General Eric Holder said today the investigators had made “substantial progress” in tracking the man who drove a Nissan Pathfinder into New York’s Times Square with a crude bomb that failed to detonate.
Officials declined to provide the specifics that led them to believe there were overseas links to a larger plot.
Initially, the Pakistani Taliban took credit for the failure. Today, there are doubts:
U.S. counterterrorism officials and South Asian analysts said Monday they doubted the Pakistani Taliban’s claims of responsibility for Saturday’s attempted bombing in Midtown Manhattan, but the claims nonetheless underscored the group’s soaring ambitions as a flag-bearer for al-Qaida.
And interesting note from the second article:
Two U.S. officials said the device in a parked vehicle, containing propane tanks, gasoline and fireworks, bore a strong resemblance to two car bombs discovered and disabled in central London in June 2007.
It difficult to believe that someone who traveled to Pakistan five months ago just coincidentally built a bomb similar to the bombs in London.
Finally, Hot Air has video of the first moments after the bomb was discovered. Once again, while you run out, the NYFD and NYPD run in. Next chance you get, thank a cop and firefighter.
