Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced early Tuesday that an arrest had been made in the failed Times Square car bombing, saying that Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old American, was taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he tried to fly to Dubai on Monday night.
Authorities said Shahzad, who is of Pakistani origin and lived in Connecticut, had paid cash for a Nissan Pathfinder that was found packed with explosives Saturday night on a tourist-crowded block in midtown Manhattan. The vehicle was set ablaze but failed to detonate.
Officials located Shahzad after a sweeping two-day investigation that yielded what senior Obama administration officials described as a flood of international and domestic clues suggesting a plot involving more than one person.
“It was clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans,” Holder said at a rare middle-of-the-night news conference at the Justice Department, nearly three hours after the suspect was pulled from an international flight that had already left the departure gate.
On CBS, NYC Mayor Bloomberg said it would be one of those tea party protesters (“somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill”) – this does not sound like that.
Bloomberg is an idiot with delusions of grandure.
I think we can do without the ad hominem attacks.
Quite right. Please accept my apologies.
Well, Janet Napolitano initially called it a “one off,” and she refused to use the term “terrorist.” Finally, yesterday afternoon, the White House began using the term, and it appears quite reasonable now. Has Ms Napolitano ever been right about anything?
Kudos for the street vendor helping to avert the “man made disaster”.
Oh, I just read that Army surveillance drones picked up the perp’s calls to arrange his flight out of JFK — GO ARMY!!!!!