Times Square Car Bomb SUV Bought on Craigslist
Time Square car bomber sourced the vehicle online.
The internet is a hugely useful tool now not only for those looking for random, time wasting information or for helping to plagiarize find sources for school papers, but now it's used in criminal investigation. Most recently, a listing on NothingButCars and Craigslist was used in aiding in the capture of the man behind the Times Square car bomb incident.
According to the New York Times, the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder that held the explosive materials was linked to a recent sale of $1,300 from listings on NothingButCars and Craigslist. The FBI contacted the seller, who provided information that presumably led to the capture of Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan, at Kennedy Airport.
Authorities now say that Faisal Shahzad confessed and is cooperating in the investigation.
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Off to Guantanimo he goes!
Off to Guantanimo he goes!
Too bad it's closed.
Anyways, it's amazing what you can find on the interwebs.
The plagiarize joke seems kind of out of place...
...and horribly unfunny...
Since you wanted to make light of the situation, you could've at least gone for the more legitimate porn angle.
Geez, he worked to get the US citizenship just to blow up the country?
What a waste of a life.
He's been captured and providing intel on locations of these asshole terrorists who get crabs everytime they fuck? awesome.
Gitmos not closed... Dont let them fool you
"explosive materials" propane, fertilizer and gas.... this is being over hyped. This guy qualifies as a lone retard. He only removed the visible vin number from the vehicle(out of several vins). Only one out of several vin numbers even if the car would of blown up they would of found a vin number and caught him on that flight. This is nothing. Anybody can do this. He is really stupid im just speechless.
"explosive materials" propane, fertilizer and gas.... this is being over hyped. This guy qualifies as a lone retard. He only removed the visible vin number from the vehicle(out of several vins). Only one out of several vin numbers even if the car would of blown up they would of found a vin number and caught him on that flight. This is nothing. Anybody can do this. He is really stupid im just speechless.
Five minutes googling could yield a better bomb. This attempt was just sad.
Five minutes googling could yield a better bomb. This attempt was just sad.
A smart person wouldnt try to blow up times square.
Why is Tom's even reporting this? I come here to hear about tech news, not about a man trying to kill a hundred people...
I new he wasn't white!!!!!!
I new he wasn't white!!!!!!
...you must be a southern-redneck with struggling grammer/spelling skills...
...you must be a southern-redneck with struggling grammer/spelling skills...
A lot of people think this must be the work of a 40ish white male that's affiliated with the TEA movement (read NYTimes' comment section if you don't believe me)
cronik93 is just pointing out that crazed liberals got it wrong again.
BTW, anyone know if eBay sells Quantum Interface Bomb? I don't trust Craiglist much.
...you must be a southern-redneck with struggling grammer/spelling skills...
I'm not a honky thank you...
Lets hope he gets life.
Well....hmmm.....not exactly pc tech news but it is kind of sort of Internet related.
By reading the title I though someone acquired and tried to sell the car after it had been seized.
And what most people don't know is that the fertilizer he used was not the kind that would explode. You can't just go down to wall mart, buy some scott's and get it to blow up... I'd get my money back from that terrorist camp he learned from...
BREAKING:: (AP) The New York Times is now reporting that Shahzad received a report from CarFax.com two days prior to the purchase of the vehicle. The title of the SUV came back without any reported accidents associated with it.
"explosive materials" propane, fertilizer and gas.... this is being over hyped. This guy qualifies as a lone retard. He only removed the visible vin number from the vehicle(out of several vins). Only one out of several vin numbers even if the car would of blown up they would of found a vin number and caught him on that flight. This is nothing. Anybody can do this. He is really stupid im just speechless.
Keep in mind folks, fertilizer was the main ingredient in the Oklahoma City bombing by he who doesn't deserve to have his name mentioned. And we all recall how much damage that caused. Done properly, this guy could have caused serious damage.
Thankfully, he was inept.
A lot of people think this must be the work of a 40ish white male that's affiliated with the TEA movement (read NYTimes' comment section if you don't believe me)cronik93 is just pointing out that crazed liberals got it wrong again.
Grammar you mean?
BREAKING:: (AP) The New York Times is now reporting that Shahzad received a report from CarFax.com two days prior to the purchase of the vehicle. The title of the SUV came back without any reported accidents associated with it.
Fire damage will show up if NYPD reported to the insurance company.
BTW, are people killed by a blown car covered by liability insurance?
...you must be a southern-redneck with struggling grammer/spelling skills...
GRAMMAAAAAAARRRRRR with an A
ignore the quote from above, it was supposed to go with this comment
Grammar you mean?
Pardom my English
BREAKING:: (AP) The New York Times is now reporting that Shahzad received a report from CarFax.com two days prior to the purchase of the vehicle. The title of the SUV came back without any reported accidents associated with it.
Heh, so he checked the Carfax to make sure the car he was going to blow up was in good shape?
The people behind the anthrax where red necks... or so I heard.
But you probably didn't.
PS: But shouldn't be used in a begging of a sentence.
PPS: Firefox grammar checker all the way.