NYPD id's Times Sq. bombing suspect as white man in his 40s

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NEW YORK — Police investigating a failed car bomb left in New York City's Times Square say they have videotape of a possible suspect shedding clothing in an alley and putting it in a bag.

The surveillance video shows a white man in his 40s taking off one shirt, revealing another underneath.

Commissioner Raymond Kelly says officers are on the way to a Pennsylvania town to talk to a tourist who might have recorded the suspect on his video camera.

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The commissioner said there's no evidence that a Pakistani Taliban videotaped claim to the failed car bombing is valid.

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[luckytxn 2,264]

Might be why the bomber left then and didn't stay to collect his virgins in the afterlife.

[Calypso 464]

NYPD id's Times Sq. bombing suspect as white man in his 40s

White man? I was expecting Spooky to ask, "Did he look Australian?"

[Saddle Bronc 124]

The designation of the suspect as "white" is rather broad--and can include from:

• Europeans/European-origin
• Arabs
• Persians
• desis (I found this out last year when I got a ticket; I tried challenging it in court, but the challenge was binned--due to my actually having committed the violation) despite of their technically being classified on government forms as "Asian/Pacific-Islander"

[alienlovechild 75]

Why is it that NYC is usually the target of choice? My favorite is the fool who drove from Denver to bomb someplace in NYC.

Wouldn't it be smarter to attack a place with less security than airports or NYC and cause more deaths? I guess they assume the news wouldn't cover it as much and they'd probably be right.

I've never worried about a terrorist attack in this country as the odds are so low unless you just happen to be in a place like Times Square at the wrong minute.