The Taliban behind NYC bomb

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The US has evidence the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square, Attorney General Eric Holder says.


Link: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8670973.stm


I hope this is not going to be another summer of bomb threats. Anyone worried about this outcome at all? Will it stop you venturing into NYC or other big town in the US?

I was planning on a driving trip to NYC this summer...

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I learned a long time ago not to trust anything that comes from the media...
I'll be in NYC at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow,if you don't hear from me,please alert the media.

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I'll keep that in mind.

You're a brave soul my dear.

[lagatta]

We are far more likely to be killed in a traffic accident. (Or from eating poutine...)

Sure, it is a worry, nobody wants to be blown up by some fanatic, whether he (or she) is Taliban or not, but whoever it was, it was a rather incompetent terrorist - nothing behind the planning behind the WTC attacks or more recently, those in Mumbai.

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I think I need to take you out for some really good Poutine, it'll help change your mind about this wonder dish

The Mumbai attacks were really well planned, no doubt about it. Terrorism is always a worry, but we can't stop living just because of these idiots.

[fumobici]

I figure I'm about as likely to be hit by a falling meteor as killed by terrorism. In any case we are all something like 1,000,000 times more likely to die of a car wreck or heart attack. Terrorism should be among the least of our worries.

What to be really afraid of are people trying to scare you to advance their own agendas.

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That's a good way to look at it, fumobici. Scare mongering from these people, who are, lets face it, cowards, is really low.

I don't live in NYC, but even if I did, it wouldn't stop me from going about my daily life.

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Just for the record,while in NYC,the hotel I was staying in was right in Times Square.Here's some pics of. As you can see,no one really was phased too much by the recent event. There were some bomb sniffing dogs about,and on the day I arrived,President Obama made a visit to Time Square and #1 Police Plaza,to express his thanks to NYPD's finest.
The first night I was there,there was an "incident" in Union Squre,dogs sniffed out an overpowering smell of gasoline coming from the trunk of a car.Turned out,it belonged to some poor bastard who had come into the city for a concert. His car had some gas cans in it,along with some leaf blowers and lawn maintenance equipmemt...








NYPD and bomb sniffing dog,he doesn't look too concerned...

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In the 1980's there was a wave of bombings in Paris, and I was in range of two of them.

In fact, I walked down this street (rue Marbeuf) less than 10 minutes after the bomb exploded and before the arrival of the police and firemen. (I was on my way to work!)


Two days later, I was waiting in line at the movies and a bomb went off in the shopping gallery right across the street. The smoke wafted across us -- and yet everybody went to the movie anyway.

Everybody was more fatalistic back then, but I have kept my extreme wariness of any seemingly abandoned package, anywhere in the world, all these years.

[bjd]

I was in Paris in 1986 (?) when a series of bombs went off in places like post offices and Tati (a cheap department store). One morning I was waiting for a commuter train when there was a loud explosion as the train came into the station. All the locals dived on the ground, I stood there completely clueless, coming as I did from the small city where we were living at the time and where nothing ever happened. I was really amazed at the Parisians' quick reaction. The noise was in fact something to do with the train, and after an announcement was made, everybody had a silly grin on their face, got into the train and went to work.

In Tel Aviv in 1997 I arrived at the scene of a bombing 10 minutes after it happened. The Israelis took things calmly, but unfortunately for them, they were used to it. All that remained was a TV truck and a reporter, and the debris had been cleared. That's mainly how I knew that something had happened. The next morning, the café was open for business.

So, I figure that when it's your time, it's your time and there is no point in getting paranoid.

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Yes, the Tati and RER explosions were part of the same wave of bombings. There was one bomb per day for about a week and we would just wonder "where is it going to happen today?"

Modern bombers are too media obsessed. If they would blow up 2 or 3 shopping malls in smalltown America, they could bring the entire country to a terrified standstill. But no, they want the photogenic iconic areas.

[fumobici]

I figure (and the odds agree) that I'm about as likely to be killed or injured in a random bomb attack as to be hit by a meteor or win the lotto- and I don't buy lotto tickets.

You want to see danger, go look at a bucket of fried chicken!