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Pakistani Taliban Claim Credit for Failed NYC Times Square Car Bombing
The Long War Journal ^ | Sunday, May 2, 2010 | Bill Roggio

Posted on 05/02/2010 9:09:28 AM PDT by kristinn

A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit for yesterday's failed car bomb attack in New York City.

Qari Hussain Mehsud, the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, said he takes "fully responsibility for the recent attack in the USA." Qari Hussain made the claim on an audiotape accompanied by images that was released on a YouTube website that calls itself the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel.

The tape has yet to be verified, but US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal believe it is legitimate. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel on YouTube was created on April 30. Officials believe it was created to announce the Times Square attack, and Qari Hussain’s statement was pre-recorded.

"This attack is a revenge for the great & valuable martyred leaders of mujahideen," Qari Hussain said. He listed Baitullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Pakistani Taliban who was killed in a Predator strike in August 2009, and Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the former leader of al Qaeda Islamic State of Iraq who was killed by Iraqi forces in mid-April. And although he was not mentioned, an image of Abu Ayyub al Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was also displayed in the images accompanying the audiotape.

Qari Hussain also said the failed attack was "revenge for the Global American interference & terrorism in Muslim countries, especially in Pakistan for Lal Masjid operation," a reference to the July 2008 Pakistani military assault on Islamists holed up in the Red Mosque in Islamabad, as well as Predator strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas and the arrest and detention of Pakistani scientist Aifa Siddique.

YouTube video of claim

(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bombing; claim; credit; failed; faisalshahzad; islam; muslims; nyc; obama; pakistan; pakistani; square; taliban; times; timessquare; waronterror
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To: kristinn

Why would you take credit for a screw up?


41 posted on 05/02/2010 9:55:59 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: ladyvet

Terrorists don’t fear Obama the way they learned to be fearful of George W. Bush. How many attacks have there been on our soil since he took office?


42 posted on 05/02/2010 9:57:17 AM PDT by kristinn (A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.)
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To: 70th Division

See my #40. Might be your answer.


43 posted on 05/02/2010 9:58:04 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: MestaMachine

Even getting the bomb in place and smoking is a partial vic. It’s terror inducing, and makes Americans change their habits even more. What now, checkpoints leading into Times Square?


44 posted on 05/02/2010 9:58:10 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: 1234

Video has been removed. Did anyone download it?


45 posted on 05/02/2010 9:59:37 AM PDT by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messiah. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: rockinqsranch

Maybe. Or maybe it was cron-scripted to be released at a certain time. That’s what they would do if they had drones on their heels.


46 posted on 05/02/2010 10:04:45 AM PDT by Moose Burger
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To: kristinn

Let me make this crystal clear: THIS IS OBAMA’S FAULT!!!


47 posted on 05/02/2010 10:07:15 AM PDT by Batman11 (Sarah Palin: "Illegal immigrants are called illegal for a reason!")
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To: Batman11

Just a side note: WABC radio here in NY City did not even MENTION the bombing on the 1:00 news . Not a word , they even talked about a fight in a Walmarts in Mass. but not a word on a bomb planted right in the heart of the city on the most crowded night of the week. Anyone else see this as “strange”?


48 posted on 05/02/2010 10:14:30 AM PDT by sonic109
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To: sonic109

Fox just said a bomb was found inside a microwave in Pittsburgh at a Marathon race.
Pittsburgh Marathon course altered by bomb scare
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15002915


49 posted on 05/02/2010 10:19:29 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: kristinn
did anyone get the video cached in time?

but on the other hand - it can't be them - it's already been floated that it was ‘right wing extremists’

Please stop the world - I want to get off for a bit

50 posted on 05/02/2010 10:19:49 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: maine-iac7; All

I didn’t grab it. According to a Google search, the video was posted eleven hours ago—about 2 a.m. EDT.


51 posted on 05/02/2010 10:22:45 AM PDT by kristinn (A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.)
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To: fatima

MSNBC has some KID on who is their terrorism EXPERT saying it’s too crude to be foreign terrorist and implying home grown right wing folks. what total propaganda.


52 posted on 05/02/2010 10:22:46 AM PDT by sonic109
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To: basil
why would the guy be bragging about a failed bomb?

the tape was made ahead of time - they didn't know it would 'fail'

Also, has it really 'failed"?

The propaganda faction is still there - basically - 'see what we can do? Right under your noses - more to come.'

53 posted on 05/02/2010 10:23:44 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: basil
Something seems not right here—why would the guy be bragging about a failed bomb? If it had detonated and done damage, then I could see it—

Read the article, the message was pre-recorded. They expected the bomb to work. It was posted on the 30th, the bomb was triggered(with no joy)on the 1st. Stands to reason they are the ones who set it up. This in spite of the BS on MSNBC about right wingers being responsible because muslims made good bombs.

They are going to have to eat those words now, and I bet Napolitano changes her tune about it "might be terrorism", now that they can't blame white tea partiers for it.

54 posted on 05/02/2010 10:25:32 AM PDT by calex59
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To: sonic109

Check this out.It was near the finish line.
“Runners in the Pittsburgh Marathon were detoured as they approached the finish due to a suspected pipe bomb near a bus station near the end of the course.”
http://kdka.com/national/pipe.bomb.Pittsburgh.2.1669641.html


55 posted on 05/02/2010 10:26:21 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: 70th Division

Read the article. The message was pre-recorded. They expected the bomb to work, either that or it was a warning, which still strikes fear into many people’s hearts. IMO it was a warning due to the fact they(the perps)left the hazard lights on and the motor running which, of course, drew attention to the vehicle even before it caught on fire.


56 posted on 05/02/2010 10:28:54 AM PDT by calex59
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To: kristinn

Aspirin factories alert - INCOMING!


57 posted on 05/02/2010 10:34:25 AM PDT by randita (Visit keyhouseraces.com for a list of vulnerable DEM and must hold GOP House seats.)
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To: calex59
IMO it was a warning due to the fact they(the perps)left the hazard lights on and the motor running which, of course, drew attention to the vehicle even before it caught on fire.

That was my initial reaction also - was the whole thing meant to be discovered - but everyone shook up as they have sent a signal they can do it - anytime... they are big on propaganda

58 posted on 05/02/2010 10:34:33 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: 70th Division
That's my question.

Why take "credit" for something that failed? This makes no sense.

59 posted on 05/02/2010 10:40:29 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: maine-iac7
Thanks for answering my question before I asked it.

Shoulda scrolled through the thread before I posted!

60 posted on 05/02/2010 10:41:41 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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