Was the Taliban really responsible for the Times Square bomb?

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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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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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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