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Failed car bombing in NYC
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NEW YORK — Police combed through a charred SUV and a crude assortment of explosives Sunday for clues to a failed Times Square bombing as a monitoring group reported that the Pakistani Taliban had claimed responsibility for the terrorist threat.
An intelligence-monitoring group released a one-minute video allegedly from the Pakistani Taliban, in which it claimed responsibility for the failed bombing in a smoking SUV left parked in the city on Saturday night, clearing thousands of tourists and theatergoers from the city's busiest district.
The U.S.-based SITE intelligence group, which monitors militant websites, said the Pakistani Taliban claimed the attack was revenge for the death of its leader Baitullah Mehsud and the recent killings of the top leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq.
New York authorities were exam-
ing the SVA at a forensic lab for fingerprints and DNA evidence.
Browne said.
The bomb, which partly detonated but malfunctioned, could have sprayed snipel that killed pedestrians in the immediate vicinity, top NYPD spokesman Paul
"We avoided what could have been a very deadly event," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Thousands of tourists were cleared from the streets for 10 hours after two vendors
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
No suspects were in custody. Police were going through surveillance video that showed the car driving west on 45th Street before it parked between Seventh and Eighth avenues. Police were looking
"We avoided what could have been a very deadly event."
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG New York City Mayor
alerted police to the suspicious vehicle, which contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components,
for more video from office buildings that weren't open at the time.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that officials are treating the incident as a
potential terrorist attack.
Officials said the device found Saturday was crudely constructed, but Islamic militants have used propane and compressed gas for years to enhance the force of explosives.
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