The "almost" Times Square Bomb

[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

Surprised nobody heard/posted about this.

NYPD: Video has possible SUV bomb suspect in alley - Yahoo! News

Luckily nobody was hurt. Could only imagine the destruction there would've been if that bomb had detonated.

Im offended that yahoo wanted me to watch an ad prior to seeing the video. I mean cant they employ some discretion when putting ads on videos. Cute puppy dogs dressed up in Halloween customs (Ad - yes). Nationwide man hunt for terror suspect (Ad - no).

[CRedskinsRule]

that's a weird thing to get offended to. So when you buy a newspaper you don't want ads in the A section, or when you watch the 10 oclock news they shouldn't put teasers before ads?

That is going to be a popular link, hence good ad space. (not as good as a truck though)

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Im offended that yahoo wanted me to watch an ad prior to seeing the video. I mean cant they employ some discretion when putting ads on videos. Cute puppy dogs dressed up in Halloween customs (Ad - yes). Nationwide man hunt for terror suspect (Ad - no).

Thats how they can offer the news and the online services for free. I'm sure they offer a pay service if you don't want to watch the comercials.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

That's good because it's not meant for kids, that's why it's on at 10pm

I don't watch it very often and when I did I thought I was watching reruns thinking they did't still produce the show. Then I'm sitting there watching it and the topic was current and I kind of laughed at myself.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Buster

That's idiotic. I hope you're just attempting a bad joke.


Interestingly enough, it was parked outside Viacom, where they product offensive garbage like South Park and MTV.

It it was a Muslim who did this (it usually is), they're probably mad about some Mohammed jokes on a cartoon. As we saw with the rioting and murders all over Europe a few years ago, a simple comic strip can send millions of them them into riots and killing sprees.

Ahem...

Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility

Pakistan Taliban leader alive, threatens U.S. attacks - Yahoo! News

Pakistani Taliban promise US attacks post-NY scare - Yahoo! News

Pakistani Taliban Chief Vows Attacks on U.S. in Video (Update2) - BusinessWeek

The first two sentences of your post could have referred to the rest of your post. Way to make general assumptions

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Im offended that yahoo wanted me to watch an ad prior to seeing the video. I mean cant they employ some discretion when putting ads on videos. Cute puppy dogs dressed up in Halloween customs (Ad - yes). Nationwide man hunt for terror suspect (Ad - no).

Fire up the van again!

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Fire up the van again!

I thought it was a bus? Or a billboard?

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

I thought it was a bus? Or a billboard?

Maybe it was a billboard on a bus

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Maybe it was a billboard on a bus

Geez! It was a billboard on a truck:



It should be changed to "FREE OUR NEWS, YOU YAHOOS"

[mlmpetert]

Maybe im overreacting to ads on internet videos

[CRedskinsRule]

Back to the attempt, I wonder if he planned on being a suicide bomber, and when it did not go as planned he tried to get out of town; or if he was trying to avoid the blast altogether. If the vehicle had blown up, finding the VIN of the specific vehicle would have been a humongous undertaking. Assuming this guy is the right guy, then good job piecing it all together that quickly.
Official: Times Square suspect says he acted alone - Yahoo! News

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by Rainy Parade

yea, who would actually listen to that crap.






except when it's not.
see McVeigh, Timothy and Stack, Joseph.
of course when the american white guys do it we just call them "disgruntled and angry" or that they just have "some misguided gripes with the government" instead of calling them what they are (Terrorists, yea, i went capital T).

btw, when we invade and demolish another country based on trumped up phoney evidence on WMD and cuz we want regime change, and hundreds of thousands of innocents die in the process, i guess that's just "foreign policy" and not terrorism.

woah woah woah, stop being objective.

[MTK]

So how did this guy manage to get on the plane when he was on the no-fly list? Apparently the carrier or airport didn't have an updated list? He bought a one way ticket to Pakistan with cash... isn't a transaction like that supposed to set off all sorts of red flags??

Just glad they caught the guy.

[CRedskinsRule]

Here is one scenario, still doesn't explain the getting on the actual plane though: The FBI/Homeland Security had the airport wanted him to go through security so that they knew he had no explosives or weapons etc.

Of course if Jack Bauer had been in charge (and it wasn't the last episode) he would have gotten on the plane as Jack was running through the airport yelling "Turn that plane around NOW"!
I love 24, and imagine that this investigation was done at nearly as hectic a pace as that show runs at.

[CRedskinsRule]

Also:

via twitter:

U.S. government to now require airlines to check no-fly lists within two hours of being notified of changes, up from 24 hours, official says