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Taliban-Pakistan claims failed NY Times Square bombing 
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 2, 2010, 10:06 PM (GMT+02:00) 
Tags:  Al Qaeda   Bomb car   New York   Taliban-Pakistan  

Robot used to detect car bomb

On April 30, twenty-four hours before a smoking SUV Nissan containing an improvised bomb was defused among the teeming crowds of Time Square, New York, the Pakistani Taliban's top bomb-maker, Qari Hussain Mehsud, recorded an audiotape taking "full responsibility for the recent attack in the USA" and promising "a jaw-breaking blow to Satan USA."  

He vowed to make the US and NATO countries pay for both Taliban and al Qaeda "martyrs" in Iraq and Yemen as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Times Square sequel to botched terror by Shoe-bomber Reid, Abdulmutallab
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
May 2, 2010, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Al Qaeda   Bomb car   New York 

Times Square in lockdown

New York and otherUS cities are on high terror alert after the failed car bomb attempt to blow upTimes Square, New York, Saturday night, May 1. Our terror experts note the similarity in methods of operation between this failed attack and two past bungled al Qaeda attempts to cause massive loss of American life: The British "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in 2002 and the Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas Day 2009.  New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said the wiring "looked amateurish."

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NY Mayor Bloomberg: A deadly event prevented
DEBKAfile Special Report
May 2, 2010, 6:36 AM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Al Qaeda   Bomb car   New York 

Time Square, New York, evacuated

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters how the police evacuated the heart of Times Square, New York, for several hours Saturday night, May 1 when a smoking bomb car was found there. Shortly after a street vendor alerted the police to smoke coming out of a parked Nissan SUV, the NYPD bomb squad secured an unexploded car bomb improvised from 3 propane tanks, 2 gasoline containers, electric wire, white powder, consumer grade fireworks, electrical wiring and two clocks.

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Abbas asks China to support Iran sanctions as Palestinians would die in ME war
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
May 1, 2010, 11:16 AM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Hu Jantao   Mahmoud Abbas   US-Iran 

Abbas welcomed by Hu Jintao

Chinese president Hu Jintao was taken by surprise by the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas's plea to support tough sanctions against Iran's nuclear program when they met inShanghai Saturday, May 1,DEBKAfile's Middle East sources reveal. A Middle East war, a real peril in the absence of sanctions, would cost the lives of many Palestinians who would be caught in the middle.
Abbas said he spoke for most Arab rulers.

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