Arrest Made in Times Square Bombing Attempt
While preparing my dinner last night, I heard Bob Beckel speculate that the Times Square bomber may be a right-wing militiaman. Looks like he’s wrong:
A Connecticut man who recently spent several months in his native Pakistan was arrested at Kennedy Airport early today in connection with the attempted Times Square car bombing, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Authorities believe that Faisal Shahzad, 30, was trying to flee the country.
They also suspect that he purchased the dark-green SUV used in the would-be attack, sources said. An e-mail sent from his account had been used to contact the seller.
Shahzad, a naturalized US citizen, had not been seen at his home in Shelton, Conn., or at his job since the explosives-packed vehicle was abandoned on West 45th Street near Broadway Saturday evening, sources said.
Right-wingers tend not to travel to Pakistan for training.
UPDATE: Seems like this is the “person of interest” federal authorities were trying to track down:
There is growing evidence the bomber did not act alone and had ties to radical elements overseas, with one senior official telling ABC News there are several individuals believed to be connected with the bombing and that at least one of them is a Pakistani-American.
Radical elements overseas tend not to mean right-wing militiamen.
UP-UPDATE: Moe Lane offers:
The implications of this – now that we’ve determined that the terrorist was not a domestic right-wing militia type against imposing carbon neutral insurance mandates on illegal immigrant stimulus project workers, or whatever the heck the Usual Suspects were guessingtoday – can wait for the morning, but I’d like to get this on the record: Mr. President, when it comes to successful counter-terrorism methodologies, hope is not a plan. And we cannot be lucky all the time.
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Bob Beckel would be a parody of himself if it wasn’t so painful to watch him getting his ass handed to him on a nightly basis by every conservative, brilliant super-model correspondent on Fox News’ payroll.
Here’s some more delusional moonbattery on parade that will be promptly forgotten by the state-run media by morning:
“[Mayor] Bloomberg later told CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric that the suspect behind the bombing attempt could be a domestic terrorist angry at the government who acted alone. ‘If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything,’ he said.”
http://wcbstv.com/local/car.bomb.suv.2.1670823.html
Yes, it could have been “ANYTHING”–a Tea Party member that snapped; a member of a right-wing militia angry at the government; white supremacists; AIG executives; 2nd Amendment fanatics; slack-jawed red-necks who think Broadway musicals are a conspiracy cooked up by them “homasexuhls” to ruin “ever-thing”; one word: HALIBURTON!; Sarah Palin, acting alone; a pro-life prayer circle;…
The billionaire Mayor of New York and the news anchor of one of the three major networks have a little chit-chat on national television and their best speculation about a suspect and motive is a white, middle-aged Republican that disagrees with the Obamessiah. It could be “anything,” except of course what it ALWAYS IS. It fascinates that these people are incapable of embarrassment for their idiocy.
Comment by Sean A — May 4, 2010 @ 5:36 am - May 4, 2010
Foiled again! How pesky is that thing called ‘reality’. Of course, some just live detached from it (#3, #12).
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — May 4, 2010 @ 9:27 am - May 4, 2010
Of course Bob Beckel was wrong. Bob Beckel is always wrong. It’s one of those loveable consistencies of Bob Beckel.
Comment by Bill — May 4, 2010 @ 9:28 am - May 4, 2010
Also on Monday, Mayor Bloomberg was quick to condemn a “lone wolf” who was obviously upset with Obamacare being passed.
TeaPartiers= People with guns full of rage ready to bomb everything
Islamists= Misunderstood poverty stricken virgin-loving souls
Comment by GayPatriot — May 4, 2010 @ 9:46 am - May 4, 2010
You just know that lefties like Bob Beckel and Michael Bloomberg were hoping and praying… well, hoping anyway… that the Times Square bomber would turn out to be somebody they could link to the Tea Parties.
Comment by V the K — May 4, 2010 @ 10:34 am - May 4, 2010
BTW, will Reverend Jeremiah Wright cite the bombing as proof that “Amerikkka’s chickens… are comin’ home… to roost!”
Comment by V the K — May 4, 2010 @ 10:36 am - May 4, 2010
The guy was also probably mad at Viacom for the South Park episode defaming Muhammad. So, apparently left-wing broadcasters were the ones who got this guy upset, not Glenn Beck.
Comment by Ashpenaz — May 4, 2010 @ 10:39 am - May 4, 2010
But no worries. Levi assures us that our Foreign policy has no affect on these folks.
Comment by The_Livewire — May 4, 2010 @ 10:52 am - May 4, 2010
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Hey, how come this guy started talking to police without being waterboarded? We should throw him in a cell with some dogs just be sure he doesn’t know anything else, right guys? Isn’t it our moral obligation to torture people in these kinds of situations?
Comment by Levi — May 5, 2010 @ 8:36 am - May 5, 2010
Cute trolling Levi, just what we’d expect from you. Of course your prefered method of government would just ship him off to a gulag and we’d never hear from him again.
As Beck pointed out, and I agree, this guy is an American (naturalized) citizen. He gets all the rights that come from that. In fact, I’m seeing you aren’t complaining about the ‘emergency exception’ that was granted in his Miranda reading.
Of course, only a socialist would think that ‘throwing him in with dogs’ would be productive.
In fact, since he’s a failed bomber and a registered Democrat, I’m sure he’ll get a position on the Annenberg foundation.
Now, Joe Lieberman’s proposed a bill that would strip citizenship for taking arms up against the US, when you join a terrorist organization. Just like we do when you take up arms against the US in a foreign power. I was unaware that Joe had become a bastion of Conservatism (I happen to agree with him here).
Comment by The_Livewire — May 5, 2010 @ 9:15 am - May 5, 2010
I have been chastising people, left and right, all week for speculating about the motives of the would-be bomber(s). One day we will wait until we have facts to start placing blame. Nah, that’ll never happen.
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