The "almost" Times Square Bomb

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! :)

Fire up the van again! :)

I thought it was a bus? Or a billboard?

I thought it was a bus? Or a billboard?

Maybe it was a billboard on a bus

Maybe it was a billboard on a bus

Geez! It was a billboard on a truck:

http://s.kapipal.com/static/images/kapipals/2de5c4b8693c417281538317d2a682f8.jpg

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

Maybe im overreacting to ads on internet videos

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 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_times_square_car_bomb)

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.

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.

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.

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