Manhattan, NY – Federal authorities are closing in on the man they say is a person of interest in the Times Square car bomb attempt this weekend, who is described as a naturalized American citizen who hails from Pakistan and just returned after spending five months there.
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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.
Authorities said another clue in the investigation is a video posted online early Sunday morning by persons in Connecticut, who may have been involved in the bomb attempt and are being sought by law enforcement. The video, posted on a site registered one day before the attack, has the Taliban in Pakistan claiming responsibility for the attempted bombing.
The Washington Post, quoting Obama Administration sources, said the attempted bombing “increasingly appears to have been coordinated by several people in a plot with international links.”
Other law enforcement officials said the investigation was closing in on the driver of the vehicle and an unknown number of others connected to him.
“This is moving very fast because they left behind a treasure trove of evidence in the unexploded car,” one US official told ABC News.
Officials told ABC News Senior Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas that the Connecticut owner of the vehicle told them he had sold the Nissan SUV last month in an unrecorded sale to an “Arabic or Latino looking man” in his 20’s or 30’s, for a few hundred dollars in cash.
The license plate on the car was apparently stolen from an auto repair shop outside Bridgeport, Connecticut, according to law enforcement officials.
The authorities told ABC News that the previous owner provided a description of the man who bought the car, and told investigators the vehicle was sold for several hundred dollars in cash, with no written records identifying the purchaser.
The license plate found on the Pathfinder also came from Connecticut, #98CY09, according to photographs of the vehicle.
They should just press the “zoom in and enhance image” button. It seems to work real well on TV and the movies
These naturalized Pakistanis are causing unrest in UK and now in U.S. Send them back to Karachi and let them ride their donkeys if they don’t like Western values.
For the first few days, Obama and his cronies refused to recognize the foreign terrorist element. They still refuse to say the words: Terrorism, Moslem, or Jihad. This goes to prove that being nice to them is not the way. Terrorist attacks have only increased since Obama came into office. I’m starting to believe that Bush was doing a better job at interrupting the terrorists.
I wonder what will happen if we find out that its connected to global terrorism??
Will Pres Obama invite them over for a beer & beg them please don’t attack us.. We will be nice to you..
I’m sick of his liberal policies!!
“YIDELECH IT IS TIME TO GO HOME” ……..and home is where?
This is a country of immigrants but ONE major component is missing. “THE AMERICAN MELTING POT”! All immigrants learnt English, assimilated (leider) in English, etc. and changed their life over to the American life.
Nowadays, each creep brings along their rotten Midos, and all. Don’t learn the Language as you see with Spanish. Pretty soon we’ll have a 3rd Language ARABIC all over. They marry 4-5 wives have dozens of children so how many years will it take to have as many ARABS/MULSIMS as spanish people.
The Muslims ruined the french character of the country (ask anyone who’s been there.) and also most of Europe, now they’re working very hard to repeat in the USA.
THEN THE FUN BEGINS, AKA as “Baghdad”, Karachi, Beirut, Kabul, and on it goes. Car bombs, Suicide bombers, vchili vchili RACHMUNE LITZLON.
Ther’re not enough FBI agents to run all over the world to play catchup with all these terrorists.
HASHEM YEREICHEIM.
We all can bash the police, fbi, obama and everyone else involved. The real ones to look at are ourselves. The same freedom which causes us to stray from Hashem, is what gives the goyim their freedom to harm us. Let’s think about controling ourselves and Hashem will control them.
Well, well. This is all part of the “plan.” We were too comfortable. Forgot we were in Gulles. This is just a “little” reminder from Hashem. The screws are tightening. You feel it dont you? Don’t you see, everyone open your eyes and see what Hashem wants us to see! We are being surrounded by the “enemy.” There is no where to “run” too. There is no where to go. No armies can stop this tzurah from happening! No democracy, or freedom is “helping” us. Do we feel helpless? Hopeless? Hashem wants us to realize there is only one way out of this mess. Thats to put our faith in Hashem! Let us daven, let us give tzedukah, let us beseech Hashem to “help us”. Remember what we just reviewed in the Hagaddah this past Pesach and all the other ones. “In every Generation there Rises up those who wish to Destroy us, to Annihilate us, and Hashem always saves us from their hands! Let us all DO TSHUVAH!! Just one thing take upon yourselves and together WE CAN MAKE MOSHIACH COME!!!
interesting how the fbi agent is on google, doing research just like the rest of us