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Arrest Made in Times Square Case

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Mon May 03, 2010 at 11:54:08 PM EST
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Police have arrested a Pakistani Man in connection with the Times Square Failed Car bomb. Shahzad Faisal, of Connecticut, was arrested in Long Island within the last hour.
The last registered owner of the Nissan Pathfinder told authorities he recently sold the car on Craigslist for $1,300 in cash to a “Middle Eastern” or “Hispanic” looking man, CBS News reported. The buyer reportedly paid in cash, with $100 bills.
So, no paper, they were strangers, buying and selling a car on Craig's list. How did the cops find out he was Pakistani? Did they get the IP addresses of the messages from Craig's list?

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    CNN reported buyer e-mails w/ seller of car (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by shmerritt on Tue May 04, 2010 at 12:35:54 AM EST
    Atty Gen. Eric Holder hust finished his press conference.  Up to now, the CNN reports have been very repetitive.   CNN reported that the authorities (FBI?) looked at the computer of the owner of the car for e-mails from the buyer, and that the person arrested seems to have used his own e-mail address.  Holder just said he's not making info. public "at this time"; extremely general press conf.

    He wasn't the (none / 0) (#22)
    by Inspector Gadget on Tue May 04, 2010 at 02:04:11 PM EST
    brightest guy. From the crazy things they've said about the construction and materials for the bomb, to the use of his own email. I'm guessing his trip to Dubai was scheduled in advance of the failed bombing attempt since American citizens can't just fly to the Middle East because they want to.

    So, whether he hid his identity or not probably wasn't a big issue with him.

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    This AM NPR said he made the plane reservation (none / 0) (#23)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Tue May 04, 2010 at 02:32:42 PM EST
    on his cell phone from the taxi on the way to JFK...

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    This ain't good... (5.00 / 2) (#7)
    by kdog on Tue May 04, 2010 at 10:21:54 AM EST
    another argument for those who get wood thinking about a cashless society...sends chills up my spine.

    And seeing Guiliani all over the tube again trying to sell security cameras and assorted tyranny gadgets like he's f*ckin' Ron Popeil...these violent loons with explosive dreams are a cancer that just keeps on spreading in every direction.

    Calgon take me away.

    Hate to admit it but I am beginning to (none / 0) (#10)
    by oculus on Tue May 04, 2010 at 11:17:07 AM EST
    agree w/you.  Almost 100 government surveillance cameras in Times Sq. area.  But the videos I have seen so far were not from those cameras.

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    Rudy was touting... (none / 0) (#12)
    by kdog on Tue May 04, 2010 at 11:22:33 AM EST
    some camera that can see into a car's trunk, grinning like Dr. Evil.

    Spooky sh*t...I'd rather take my chances with the violent loons than the tyrannical ones.

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    You were probably in Queens (none / 0) (#13)
    by oculus on Tue May 04, 2010 at 11:43:02 AM EST
    Sat. night and I was in Brooklyn.  Maybe if either of us were in Times Sq. Sat. night when the guy parked the SUV we would have a different opinion.

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    Nah... (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by kdog on Tue May 04, 2010 at 11:52:15 AM EST
    I'm there often enough to know my opinion wouldn't change...I guess it boils down to a question of taste, but there are a slew of things I fear more than death by explosion.

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    Interesting. Fast and quickly unconscious (none / 0) (#17)
    by oculus on Tue May 04, 2010 at 12:52:05 PM EST
    death by explosion in Times Sq.  That would be ok.  

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    Different Opinion? (none / 0) (#16)
    by squeaky on Tue May 04, 2010 at 12:35:49 PM EST
    Maybe you would have a different opinion about many things had you not made all the choices you have made in your life.

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    Not a Pakistani (4.50 / 2) (#1)
    by gyrfalcon on Tue May 04, 2010 at 12:07:53 AM EST
    from what I'm hearing on CNN just now, a naturalized American citizen of Pakistani origin.

    They had electronic interecepts, phone calls, etc., that pointed them to this guy, as well as whatever they were able to find out from the Craigslist thing.

    Although we don't even know whether he responded to the Craigslist post via email, do we?  Lots of CL postings provide only a telephone number, not an email address, to respond to (for fear of spam).

    According to this link, (none / 0) (#11)
    by oculus on Tue May 04, 2010 at 11:20:27 AM EST
     a "natualized citizen" was born outside U.S.  link

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    Became a citizen one year ago (none / 0) (#20)
    by Inspector Gadget on Tue May 04, 2010 at 01:58:21 PM EST
    Was born in Pakistan.

    You must never sell or buy using Craigslist.

    The man in the video who they said they were looking for was tall, very thin, with a large bald spot in the back of his head.

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    corr. "hust" = "just" (none / 0) (#3)
    by shmerritt on Tue May 04, 2010 at 12:37:37 AM EST
    sorry for typo. error.

    MSNBC (not CNN) (none / 0) (#4)
    by shmerritt on Tue May 04, 2010 at 12:44:22 AM EST
    Actually, I just realized that I've been watching MSNBC not CNN via Media Center; so it was "Breaking News" (still on) on MSNBC; I'll switch to CNN eventually to see what it has been reporting.  It was Pete Williams of MSNBC who was reporting on e-mails etc., breaking into regular programming.

    NPR reported that Politico reported (none / 0) (#5)
    by ruffian on Tue May 04, 2010 at 09:34:37 AM EST
    that an unnamed government source said it was (at least in part) the records of calls to or from a disposable cell phone that led to this suspect.

    The fact that this gets leaked through politico...well it speaks volumes, but I'm not sure yet what it is saying. It does not give me more trust in the process, that's for sure.

    So the guy uses inert fertilizer as an explosive.. (none / 0) (#6)
    by magster on Tue May 04, 2010 at 09:57:21 AM EST
    keeps the valves closed on propane tanks, uses his real name in an e-mail during the purchase of the car he attempts to use for the car bomb, and scrapes off the VIN on the dashboard not realizing the VIN is imprinted 2 other places on every US vehicle.

    Thank God this jerk was an idiot too!!

    We have now had two attacks in a (none / 0) (#8)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue May 04, 2010 at 10:51:22 AM EST
    row, this one and the Underwear Bomber on NW253 that failed. The scary part is that they failed not because of what we did, but because the attackers were, to a degree, incompetent.

    Depending upon the stupidity of your enemy is not an acceptable defense.

    We can cheer the great police work.

    But the intelligence work failed. Again. Just as it did with the NW253 attack and just as it did on 9/11. Remember. The CIA knew an attack was coming, but it didn't know where, when or how. Bush's NSA advised all the agencies on 7/5.

    And no, let's don't get off topic. My point is that almost 9 years later very little has changed on the prevention side. All we know is that an attack is coming.

    Maybe its time to quit congratulating ourselves and start figuring out how to prevent them.

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    Don't FOrget (none / 0) (#9)
    by squeaky on Tue May 04, 2010 at 11:04:17 AM EST
    To keep checking under your bed.

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    Minimizing attacks (none / 0) (#15)
    by jondee on Tue May 04, 2010 at 12:11:46 PM EST
    as opposed to "preventing attacks", is the best you can hope for, when military intervention - directly or by proxy - anywhere and everywhere and the maintenance of 700 bases around the world are cornerstones of your foreign policy.

    There's no God given (because he likes us the most) SDI, super duper, sci-fi fantasy technology that can be implemented under this scenario that's EVER going to make this country completely safe forever from a another major terrorist attack, particularly as the technology of destruction evolves.

    You learn to live with the constant threat - somehow - or start reexamining your exceptionalist assumptions about the way you do business with the rest of the world, or begin to look at terrorist attacks, as I assume many already have, as part of "the cost of doing business".

    Btw, Nice saber rattling yesterday, Hillary. Very impressive..I feel safer already.

       

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    There was also no God given (none / 0) (#18)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue May 04, 2010 at 01:16:49 PM EST
    vaccine for Polio. There was no God given airplane that would fly.

    The improvements in our world are man made, although religion can be a great influence for good.. and, as we see from the radical Muslims, bad.

    As I said, cheer the police work. It was great.

    It was also, as necessary, after the attack's failure.

    Sooner or later our intelligence failures and government policies will combine in a disaster.

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    Right wingers and conservatives (none / 0) (#19)
    by jondee on Tue May 04, 2010 at 01:37:13 PM EST
    want to improve the technology to maintain the status quo. Solving problems with the same thinking used to create them.

    If that's any kind of "improvement", it's only the most superficial kind. And not anything that's going to keep people in this country "safe from attack".

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    I know.. (none / 0) (#21)
    by jondee on Tue May 04, 2010 at 02:03:32 PM EST
    we'll just find a way to clone Jack Bauer. And then close the borders, the ports, rapidly expand surveillance capability, tell the Chines we wont pay them back if they dont help us..and make the Bush Tax Cuts Permanent. Problem solved.  

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    I see you are talking to yourself again (none / 0) (#24)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue May 04, 2010 at 05:43:29 PM EST
    ;-)

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