Car Bomb in Times Square

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8656651.stm

I am not sure what to make of this. The car was in a good place (from a terrorists point of view) to leave a car bomb, but leaving the engine running and the hazard lights on was stupid. Was it a dud or did something go off prematurely?

Sounds like the London car bomb plot a few years back when the car got towed off the road by some traffic wardens

Why do these things always seem to have some extreme giveaway that prevents the intended effect? I'm very dubious.

Not always. The London underground bombing happened. The Spanish railway bombing happened. They aren't always given away and thwarted.

ruveyn

It must be their guilty conscience!

It could be that they don't really want to kill people, only scare them. It's like when the IRA would telephone in to inform people of a bomb somewhere.

Yeah the IRA were really considerate like that.

Apparently Pakistani Taliban are claiming responsibility altho some folks are denying it now.

Another nut case that builds a useless bomb. He did not know how to even build one. Put him away and forget about it. Trouble is they will use this over and over to get more funding
from the Feds. Because of the actions of some nut, 100's of millions will be spent on contracts and salarys of useless people.

Well, terrorism is the weapon of the poor. <.< You don't need that much ressources to make a bomb, heh.

That is the essence of asymmetric warfare. The poor nations and groups cannot match the wealthy in weapons but they can screw us up on the streets. One solution is for all nations to become poor. Another solution is to raise the level of poorer nations so their people have something to lose, and yet another solution is massacre and extermination.

ruveyn

I'm beginning to wonder if this one wasn't supposed to be another Oklahoma City--Timothy McVeigh and a truck bomb exploding at the Federal Building in town.

Why is that?

All signs pointing to an overseas group in Pakistan.

Apparently they're looking into the South Park connection since it was close to Viacom headquarters.

It was a very amateurish attempt. Clearly not an al queda op.

ruveyn

Well the Taliban is hardly an international terrorist network like Al Qaeda so that makes sense. Pakistani intelligence didn't even think they were capable of pulling off something like this.