Pakistani Taliban claim failed New York bomb attack

reuters ^ | 5/2/2010 | Reuters

[tobyhill]

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attempted car bomb attack in New York's Times square, a statement on an Islamist website said on Sunday.

The statement said it was to avenge the killing of two Islamists and "Muslim martyrs".

[Steely Tom]

Yeah, but it wasn’t terrorism.

[pnh102]

These must be the right wing tea partiers that were accused of pulling this off earlier. Glad to see the 0bama regime is on top of things.

[Brilliant]

I say BS. But if it’s true, then it looks like Obama brought it on us by being mean to the Taliban.

[brushcop]

Thank you Rooters! As much of a trainwreck as the UK seems to be, quite often their news sources are the only ones with credibility.

[LostInBayport]

And liberals sigh in disappointment at the PMSDNC cable channel. They quickly drop the car bomb story and switch to detailed discussions of Michelle Obama’s summer wardrobe.

[chris37]

Gee I wonder what MSLSD will say about this...

[tobyhill]

I heard earlier that there is a youtube video of the warning made on April 30th.

[Las Vegas Ron]

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/05/pakistani_taliban_cl.php

[Las Vegas Ron]

Meant to inlude that the video has been pulled already but you can read about it at the link I posted.

[tobyhill]

I read it and it looks like this administration ignored the warning signs, again.

[Chode]

why would they claim a failure...???

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Was it not earlier I read the “right wingers” were being accused of this car bomb because it was not as sophisticated as a Muslim bomb????

I hope everyone feels safer now that Obama the Muslim Communist is in charge.

[mware]

Even prior to 911 the Taliban warned that something was coming.

Seems they are off the hook with their God as long as they give some sort of warning ahead of time.

[Don Corleone]

I say BS.

It was the Amish Tea Partiers.

[tobyhill]

They put the warning out a day earlier so they didn't know it would be a failure at that time. The claim today was meant more as a warning that despite the failure they are still there.

[calex59]

Why would you say BS? BTW, it is NOT BS, they pre-recorded the message(as per earlier articles on this subject)and posted it on you tube. They didn’t expect the bomb to fail. This was an act of terrorism, by USA based Taliban members, and definitely not done by “McVeigh” wanna bes as the news tried to infer(actually they came right out and said so).

[calex59]

They pre-recorded the message and posted it before the bomb was triggered. Pretty much proof that they did it. They didn't expect the bomb to fail. You are about the 500th person to ask that question between the 4 or so articles I have seen posted on the subject today, I guess none of you can actually read articles, only the headlines.

Now let's suppose they claimed it after the fact, the way you thought they did, they would still claim it as a warning that they are here and could do us damage.

The fact is, they are responsible and now the MSM will have to eat their frickin' theory that "white right wingers" set the bomb.

[Mr. Dough]

So if these people think it’s so great to become a martyr, why do they always want to avenge their friends who have achieved that status?

[Gaffer]

“All your 7-Eleven belong to us!”