Was the Taliban really responsible for the Times Square bomb?

deanhills

deanhills

Mar 2009
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I just can't believe that the Taliban could be responsible for a clumsy bomb like the one recently found by the NYPD in New York, can you?
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Surely the Taliban can come up with something better? Sort of boggles the mind a little.

More info about the bomb in Yahoo!News:
The homemade bomb was made largely with ordinary items, including three barbecue grill-size propane tanks, two 5-gallon gasoline containers, store-bought fireworks and cheap alarm clocks attached to wires.
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deanhills

deanhills

Mar 2009
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David said:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/02/nyc.car.bomb.explainer/index.html

Looks like it was an American subverter, not a Muslim at all.
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Maybe the link in your posting changed, as I could not find the reference to an "American subverter" in it.

Looks as though you are right however:
One film sequence showed the man that city police chief Raymond Kelly said was acting in a "furtive" manner as he hurried away from the area. He was "a white male in his 40s" and "seen shedding a dark colored shirt revealing a red one underneath," Kelly said. He added that a tourist had contacted police to say he "may have got a picture of the individual" while he was filming a nearby mounted policeman.

While New York has been on a terrorist alert ever since the September 11, 2001 attacks, authorities have ruled out a major Islamist militant link to the bomb.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said: "There is no evidence that this is tied in with Al-Qaeda or any other big terrorist organization."

Kelly also dismissed a claim of responsibility made over the Internet by the Pakistani group Tehreek-e-Taliban.
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Source: Yahoo!News
 
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