New York bomb investigators hunt for balding, middle-aged white man

CCTV footage show the man taking off one shirt to reveal a red one underneath. He then puts it in a bag.The balding white man in his forties then picks up the bag and moves on

This CCTV footage shows the Nissan Pathfinder (left) which carried the bomb shortly before it was abandoned

 A bomb squad officer examines the Nissan Pathfinder car. Smoke emerging from the vehicle first alerted officers to the 'car bomb'

The alarm clock found in a dark SUV which is said to be in the vehicle with the bomb

 

* Mayor dismisses Pakistan Taliban claim of responsibility
* Similarities with Tiger Tiger bomb outside London nightclub
* Handbag seller alerts police to smoking car
* Police investigate South Park link

The hunt is on in the U.S. for a balding, middle-aged white man who seen taking off his shirt near the car where the New York bomb was found.

Surveillance video shows him slipping down an alley close to Times Square and taking off a shirt, revealing another underneath.

In the same clip, he's seen looking back in the direction of the smoking vehicle and furtively putting the first shirt in a bag.

The images were released as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said detectives had made substantial progress in their investigation and that those involved would eventually be caught.

He added that agents were still looking for the man spotted in the surveillance video taking off his shirt.

'We have some good leads,' said Holder referring to the middle-aged man, adding. 'We are following a number of other leads as well.'
Holder was cautious about linking it to international terrorism and claims of responsibility by the Taliban in Pakistan.

'I know that group in the past has claimed responsibility for incidents that (they) ultimately were not connected to," he said, adding it was too early to say who was in fact responsible.

New York police commissioner Ray Kelly said had the bomb detonated it 'looks like it would have caused a significant fireball'.

The petrol-and-propane bomb was crude but could have sprayed shrapnel and metal parts with enough force to kill pedestrians and knock out windows on one of America's busiest streets, full of Broadway theatres and restaurants on a Saturday night.

Detectives are understood to be investigating similarities between the New York bomb and two car bombs planted by Al Qaeda terrorists outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in London three years ago.

In both cases, the devices were composed of propane gas and cans full of petrol intended to be ignited by electronic detonators.


A bomb disposal vehicle arrives at the scene after an explosive device was found in an SUV parked in Times Square

The alarm clock found in a dark SUV which is said to be in the vehicle with the bomb

Bomb squad members worked through the night to defuse the explosive device found in the car

Both attacks were stopped by members of the public contacting police after becoming suspicious of smoke coming from the cars.

Like the bomb in New York's theatreland the London device was found in Leicester Square close to the capital's theatres.

A Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for the failed attack in a one-minute video but Commissioner Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said police have no evidence to support the claims. They noted that the same group had falsely taken credit for previous attacks on U.S. soil.

It has also emerged that the bomb could have been aimed at the creators of the controversial cartoon South Park.

Viacom, which makes the comedy show, has offices near where the bomb was found and defused in Times Square.

The show's writers were threatened with reprisals last month over an episode mocking the prophet Mohammed.

When asked if the Viacom Inc office was a target in any way, Commissioner Kelly said: 'We can't rule anything out at this time.'

South Park is shown on the Comedy Central network owned by Viacom.

A large amount of fertilizer rigged with wires and fireworks was found with the bomb, but police said it was not the ammonium nitrate grade that can explode.

The homemade bomb was made largely with ordinary items, including three barbecue grill-size propane tanks, two 5-gallon gasoline containers, store-bought fireworks and cheap alarm clocks attached to wires.

'Clearly it was the intent of whoever did this to cause mayhem, to create casualties,' Kelly said.

Authorities didn't know how deadly the bomb could have been, how it failed or who was responsible.

Police had already identified the registered owner of the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder - which didn't have an easily visible vehicle identification number and had licence plates from another car - and were looking to interview him.

Police also were searching more video, believed to be in the possession of a Pennsylvania tourist, of a person spotted near the car.

The bomb was found shortly before theatergoers headed to Saturday night shows.


Timers were connected to a 16oz can filled with fireworks, which were apparently intended to set the gas cans and propane afire.

Commissioner Kelly said. The vehicle would have been 'cut in half' by an explosion, and people nearby could have been sprayed by shrapnel and killed.

Police had feared that another component - a metal rifle cabinet packed with a fertilizer-like substance and rigged with wires and more fireworks - could have made the device even more devastating.

Test results late Sunday showed that it was indeed fertilizer - but the New York Police Department's bomb experts believe it was not a type volatile enough to explode like the ammonium nitrate grade fertilizer used in previous terror attacks, said police spokesman Paul Browne.

The exact amount of fertilizer was unknown. Police estimated the cabinet - with a manufacturer-listed weight of 78 pounds (35 kilograms) - weighed 200 pounds (90 kilograms) to 250 pounds (113 kilograms) when they pulled it from the vehicle.
New York's busiest streets, choked with taxis and people on one of the first summer-like days of the year, were shut down for 10 hours, unnerving thousands of tourists attending Broadway show, museums and other city sights.

Detectives took the stage at the end of some shows to announce to theatergoers that they were looking for witnesses in a bombing attempt.
"No more New York," said Crysta Salinas. The 28-year-old Houston woman was stuck waiting in a deli until 2 a.m. local time because part of a Marriott hotel was evacuated because of the bomb.

A monitoring group, IntelCenter, said the Pakistani Taliban released another video, apparently dated early April, of their leader promising an imminent attack on major U.S. cities.

The video is about 9 minutes long and features Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief, according to IntelCenter, a U.S.-based group that monitors militant media.

Mehsud does not specifically mention New York but says he is speaking on April 4 of this year and promises, "God willing, very soon in some days or a month's time, the Muslim (community) will see the fruits of most successful attacks of our fedayeen in USA."

Bloomberg noted that the investigation was in its early stages but said, "So far, there is no evidence that any of this has anything to do with one of the recognized terrorist organizations."

The NYPD and FBI were also examining "hundreds of hours" of security videotape from around Times Square, Kelly said.

Police released a photograph of the dark-colored SUV as it crossed an intersection at 6:28 p.m. Saturday. A vendor pointed the SUV out to an officer about two minutes later.

The license plate found on the vehicle did not belong to the SUV; police said it came from a car found in a repair shop in Connecticut.

Duane Jackson, a 58-year-old handbag vendor, said he noticed the car and wondered who had left it there in a no-standing zone.

Jackson said he looked in the car and saw keys in the ignition with 19 or 20 keys on a ring. He said he alerted a passing mounted police officer.

They were looking in the car "when the smoke started coming out and then we heard the little pop-pop-pop like firecrackers going out and that's when everybody scattered and ran back," he said.

"Now that I saw the propane tanks and the gasoline, what if that would have ignited?" Jackson said. "I'm less than 8 feet away from the car."

Times Square lies about four miles north of where terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, then destroyed it on Sept. 11, 2001.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility in a video posted on the Internet on Sunday, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. SITE, a U.S.-based terrorist tracking organization, first uncovered the video on YouTube; it later appeared to have been removed from the website.

In a copy of the video provided by SITE, an unidentified voice speaking in Urdu, the primary language in Pakistan, says the group takes "full responsibility for the recent attack in the USA." The video does not mention any details about Saturday's attack.
The militant group said the attack was revenge for the death of its leader, Baitullah Mehsud, and the recent slaying of al-Qaida in Iraq leaders Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who were killed by U.S. and Iraqi troops last month north of Baghdad. The video also mentioned Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who was convicted in a U.S. court in New York in February of trying to kill American service personnel after her arrest in Afghanistan in 2008.

If the claim is genuine, it would be the first time the Pakistani Taliban has struck outside South Asia. It has no known global infrastructure like al-Qaida.

In at least one past instance, the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack it played no role in. Mehsud reportedly said his men were behind a mass shooting in March 2009 at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, in April 2009. That claim turned out to be false.

The last terror threat in New York came last fall when air shuttle driver Najibullah Zazi admitted to a foiled homemade bomb plot aimed at the city subway system.

The theater district in London was the target of a propane bomb attack in 2007. No one was injured when police discovered two vehicles loaded with nails packed around canisters of propane and gasoline.

VENDOR HAILED A HERO

 

Street vendor Lance Orton, a Vietnam veteran, is being hailed a hero after telling mounted policeman Wayne Rhatigan about the Nissan.
Several other vendors on that street corner also spotted the car and said they scrambled to tell the police.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised Orton and Rhatigan on Sunday and had dinner with Rhatigan in Times Square. Orton - who was reluctant to speak to the media -- had been unable to join them, Bloomberg said.
Duane Jackson (pictured), another Vietnam vet who said he helped alert police, was back selling handbags and T-shirts across the road from where the vehicle carrying the bomb had been parked.
"There are a bunch of us disabled vets selling here, and we're used to being vigilant because we all know that freedom isn't free," Jackson, 58, told The New York Times. "All of us vets here are the eyes and ears for the cops."

Pakistani army kills 22 Taliban near Afghan border

Militant attacks have killed nearly 3,300 people since July 2007 across Pakistan.Pakistani troops have been pursuing an anti-Taliban offensive since late March

Army helicopter gunships pounded insurgent hideouts in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 22 militants, a government official said.

Samiullah Khan said the hideouts hit were in the Dabori area and its neighboring villages of the Orakzai tribal region near the Afghan border. He added the aerial strikes also destroyed six militant compounds.

Khan said the militants fired mortars at an army checkpoint in Mishti Mela area in Lower Orakzai, wounding two soldiers.

Pakistani forces launched an operation in Orakzai in mid-March to flush out militants who last year fled an army offensive in South Waziristan. The troops are believed to have retaken several areas from the Taliban in the region.

Thousands of people have fled the area. Most of them have moved in with relatives in nearby districts.

Independent confirmation of the casualties and the identities of those killed is virtually impossible because the region is remote and dangerous and media access there is restricted.

The tribal region is the primary base of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud.

Mehsud was believed killed in a mid-January suspected U.S. missile strike, but intelligence officials now say he is thought to have survived.



The Taliban had always denied the strike killed Mehsud, though failed to offer any evidence such as video footage of him.

Pakistani jets bombed suspected militant hideouts in a lawless tribal region near the Afghan border on Sunday, killing at least 13 rebels, officials said.

Three jet fighters participated in the attack and destroyed four insurgent hideouts in Orakzai tribal district, where Pakistani troops have been pursuing an anti-Taliban offensive since late March, a military spokesman told AFP.

"Jets targeted militants in Dabori, Ghiljo and Khadizai towns," he said.

Local administration official Sajjad Ahmed confirmed the casualty numbers and said eight Taliban wounded in the air strikes had been captured.

The toll might rise as other suspected hideouts were also pounded, he added.

Orakzai is the latest district in northwest Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal area to have witnessed an anti-Taliban operation by the military, following US pressure to eradicate Islamist extremism.

Independent confirmation of Sunday's casualties was impossible as the area is a closed military zone inaccessible to aid workers and journalists.

Security forces launched the Orakzai offensive on March 24 in an effort to flush out Taliban fighters who escaped a major assault on South Waziristan last year.

Washington says Pakistan's tribal belt is a stronghold for Al-Qaeda-linked militants plotting attacks on US-led troops fighting a nearly nine-year insurgency in Afghanistan.

In the Bajaur tribal region further north, security forces Sunday shot dead a suspected suicide bomber before he could detonate his suicide vest near a military convoy, the military spokesman said.

Suicide and bomb attacks have killed nearly 3,300 people since July 2007 across nuclear-armed Pakistan. The attacks are blamed on Al-Qaeda, Taliban and other extremist Islamist groups.

In a separate incident, Taliban militants blew up two state-run schools for boys near Khar, the main town in Bajaur, local administration official Adalat Khan told AFP.

The attackers overpowered the guards and blew up the schools overnight, Khan said, adding that no casualties had been reported.

Islamist militants have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in northwest Pakistan in recent years.

Profile: Hakimullah Mehsud - Leader of Taliban Pakistan directly threathen USA.Alleged killed but survive.

Hakimullah has been reported killed several times in the past year 


Mehsud, left, has vowed to continue war of attrition against the Pakistani military


 Hakimullah was involved in al-Balawi's attack on CIA operatives in Afghanistan


Speculation over the faith of Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban, has been widespread since reports emerged that he had been killed in a US drone attack in northwestern Pakistan on January 14.

Mehsud came to prominence in the Taliban movement after a number of devastating raids on the nation's regular army in 2007.

His first-ever mention in an English-language newspaper came when he was appointed as a spokesman for Baitullah Mehsud, his predecessor.

Mehsud then gained a reputation for his fighting skills, particularly with the AK-47, and served as Baitullah Mehsud's deputy commander until the leader died in a CIA drone missile strike in August 8, 2009.

Aged about 30 years old and never shy of the media, Hakimullah Mehsud is reportedly an extremely mobile Taliban commander - cropping up in one or other of the tribal areas regularly, especially the Khyber, Kurram and Orakzai tribal agencies.

He is an articulate leader, frequently spelling out his organisation's objectives: to maintain the campaign of attrition against the Pakistani army in order to carve out a Pashtun Taliban emirate in Pakistan.

He is also the Pakistani Taliban's most successful leader to date. In one especially audacious raid, he captured 300 Pakistani soldiers - an attack that local journalists say added greatly to his prestige.

'Lively and dangerous'

Shafiq Ahmad, a reporter for Geo TV in Peshawar, met the leader at the beginning of 2009.

"Hakimullah is a lively man," he said.

"He told us he could give us two gifts. One was the Humvee military vehicle that his fighters had captured during a recent raid in the Khyber pass on an Afghanistan-bound supply convoy for Nato forces.

"The other was a jeep that his men had snatched from UN employees."

Another journalist, the BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan, met Mehsud at the same time and was impressed by a "handsome young man with a pleasant demeanour", even though "danger radiated from him".

"He [would] drive like a man possessed, manoeuvring around razor sharp bends at barely possible speeds ... braking inches short of a several hundred-foot drop."

Mehsud was born near the town of Jandola in South Waziristan around 1980 and went to a small village school in Hangu District.

Mehsud's reputation has only grown with every inaccurate claim by the Pakistani government to have killed him.

On August 10, 2009, Pakistani officials proudly announced his death, saying he had been hit by an unmanned drone attack after intercepting his phone calls.

But just hours later a Reuters news agency journalist reported he had spoken to Mehsud after the attack.

Later, on September 5, Pakistan forces "captured a man who confessed to killing Hakimullah", according to the national newspaper The Daily Times, which also headlined four weeks later that Hakimullah had most probably died on October 1.

The headline was ruined three days later when the press-loving leader met a group of reporters in a bid to end any premature speculation of his demise.



Reward offered

Unabashed, Rehman Malik, Pakistan's interior minister, maintained doubts about the video following the meeting, claiming it was Mehsud's look-alike brother that featured in the footage.

Clearly Malik had a change of heart, however, because on November 2, Al Jazeera's Imran Khan revealed that the Pakistani government was offering a $600,000 reward to anyone who could provide information that lead to the capture or death of Mehsud.

By early January 2010, no one was left in any doubt of his sprightliness when he appeared in another video alongside suicide bomber Humam al-Balawi.

Al-Balawi was a Jordanian national who attacked the US army Camp Chapman in Afghanistan on 30 December, an attack he called a "retaliation for the death of Baitullah Mehsud".

And in the early hours of January 14, two missiles from a US drone - that struck a mosque in the Shaktoi area - led to speculation the Pakistan Taliban leader was among the 18 killed in the attack.

But just days later, the Taliban released an audio tape where a man who claimed to be Mehsud said he had not even been injured in the attack

"I am saying it again - I am alive, I am OK, I am not injured ... when the drone strike took place, I was not present in the area at that time", the recording said.

However, Pakistani television reported on January 31 that Mehsud had died on January 17 and that his body had been buried.

The Taliban dismissed the reports, and on April 29, unnamed Pakistani intelligence officials said that after new checks, they had concluded that Mehsud had only been injured in January, not killed.

Two days later, a failed car bomb was discovered in New York's Times Square, and what appeared to be Mehsud soon showed up in video recordings, warning the US of attacks and claiming "full responsibility for the recent attack in the USA".

The videos, released by IntelCenter and SITE, two US-based groups monitoring Taliban media, were allegedly recorded in April.

 

Pakistan Taliban chief threatens US - Mehsud surfaces on video to threaten strikes on U.S.

The new video shows Hakimullah Mehsud threatening attacks on the US

Four months after he was believed killed in a U.S. drone strike, Pakistan Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has appeared in a new video, vowing revenge attacks against major American cities.

Mehsud threatened to carry out strikes against the US within a month for killings of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders as he surfaced in a nine-minute video apparently made on April 4, U.S. monitoring groups reported.

“The time is very near when our fidayeen will attack states in major US cities,” Mehsud warned on the video where he was shown flanked by two armed masked men.

This is the first time that Taliban have directly threatened to carry out suicide attacks on the US soil, on the pattern of their close allies Al-Qaeda.

The video comes in the wake of an attempted car bombing in New York’s Times Square on Sunday and follows another video released by Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) in which the group claimed responsibility for the failed strike. The U.S. investigative agencies have however ruled out the attack being handiwork of any Islamist terror organisation.




Video tapes have been released of what appears to be Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the main Pakistani Taliban group, warning the US of multiple attacks on its citizens.
The tapes of Mehsud, who was reported dead in a January drone attack, emerged just a day after another Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for a failed bombing in New York.
An unidentified voice purportedly belonging to Mehsud, said the Taliban takes "full responsibility for the recent attack in the USA" in a video released by SITE, a US-based group monitoring Taliban media.
The video, allegedly recorded on April 19, makes no specific reference to the attack in New York City, nor does it mention that the location or that it was a car bomb.
Mehsud was presumed to have been killed in a drone strike in northwestern Pakistan, but last week Pakistani intelligence officials suggested Mehsud may have survived the attack.

Dismissed claim
US authorities investigating the failed car bombing of New York's Times Square have dismissed the earlier claim of responsibility made over the internet by a group led by Qari Hussein Mehsud.
Pakistani Taliban sources also told Al Jazeera on Sunday that they were not involved.

In a second video recording, released by IntelCenter, another monitoring agency, a man appearing to be Mehsud promises that "God willing, very soon in some days or a month's time, the Muslim [community] will see the fruits of most successful attacks of our fedayeen in USA".
"Fedayeen" usually refers to suicide bombers, which the car bomb attempt in New York did not involve.
Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, said the threat apparently issued by Mehsud could have ramifications both in the US and in Pakistan.
"Will they [the US] increase the number of drone strikes into Pakistan now that Hakimullah has issued a threat?" he said.
"The claim that there will be suicide attacks in mainland USA is not something the Americans will take lightly. They will, of course, update security operations.
"The question is if the Taliban has the capability to strike on such a large distance. It's not something that many people believe is possible."
Baitullah Mehsud, the predecessor of Hakimullah Mehsud, reportedly claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at the American Civic Association in Binghamton in April 2009. That claim turned out to be false.

U.S. authorities played down the potential connection between the Pakistani militant network and the car bomb, saying the group does not have global infrastructure to carry out such attacks.

Mehsud was reported to have been killed in January in a US drone strike in Shaktai area of Waziristan in northwestern Pakistan. But, last week Pakistan’s military intelligence ISI claimed that he had survived the attack.

Referring to the reports of his death, 27-year-old Tehreek-e-Taliban chief in the video rubbished them describing them as “open lie and propaganda by the non-believers.”

“Inshaallah (God willing) very soon in some days or a month’s time the world will see the fruit’s of most successful attacks by our fidayeen in the USA,” Mehsud warned in the video.

CNN said Mehsud, who was once Pakistan’s most feared terrorist commander, had made similar threats in an audio message in another TTP tape released to Pakistani journalists on April 19 which carried his photograph pasted on a map of U.S.

Times Square attack

The second video in which the TTP claimed responsibility for Times Square attack, the outfit said it was a retaliation for having “martyred many of our Muslim leaders and many respective brothers from Al-Qaeda.”

Specifically naming the killing of Baitullah Mehsud — his predecessor in TTP, who was killed in a U.S. missile strike in August last year — Mehsud said that TTP had already infiltrated the U.S.

“Our fidayeen have penetrated the terrorist American, we will give extremely painful blows to the fanatic America.”

He also warned NATO and other allies to abandon the US or they would face worst humiliation and destruction than America itself.

SITE, the U.S. intelligence group which monitors terrorist websites, said the video was made by Umar studio, the media arm of the TTP, which was sure to embarrass Islamabad.

The second video also showed Qari Hussain, the Taliban’s suicide bomber trainer.

On another website commonly used by Islamists said the New York attacks were also revenge for killing of two senior Iraqi Al-Qaeda leaders Abu Ayub Al-Masri and Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi.

C.I.A. Missile Strike May Have Killed Pakistan’s Taliban Leader, Officials Say

Officials in Washington and Islamabad were scrambling to make sense of communications intercepts and other intelligence that seemed to indicate that Mr. Mehsud might have been killed in the strike. By Thursday evening, American officials said they were growing increasingly confident that the Taliban leader was dead.

The missile struck a house in the remote village of Zanghara, in South Waziristan, about 1 a.m. Wednesday. Local residents reached by telephone confirmed that one of the wives of Mr. Mehsud, the leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, was among those killed. Her name or age could not be confirmed.

Five others, including four children, were reportedly wounded in the missile strike.

The compound where the attack took place belonged to Ikramuddin Mehsud, a local tribal elder whose daughter is Baitullah Mehsud’s second wife.

The strike by a drone early Wednesday morning hit a compound in the remote village of Zanghara, in South Waziristan. Village residents said that day that one of Mr. Mehsud’s wives had been killed in the attack and that several children had been wounded.

Pakistani officials publicly condemn these attacks, but they have privately given their blessing to the strikes in the country’s tribal areas, in part because the missile attacks increasingly have focused on Mr. Mehsud’s network.

Baitullah Mehsud, the self-professed leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has vowed to to send more suicide bombers to kill US troops in Afghanistan.(The Mehsuds are a large warrior Pashtun tribe renowned for never being pacified by the British forces.)

The US homeland security chief is calling on Pakistan to strike back against Taliban fighters on its border with Afghanistan.

The US and NATO say a truce between the Taliban and Pakistan in the North-West Frontier province has already led to more fighting.

Still, they cautioned that it may be weeks before they are certain, and they may never gain access to the remote location in South Waziristan to perform DNA tests.

“There is reason to believe that reports of his death may be true, but it can’t be confirmed at this time,” said an American official with access to classified intelligence reports.

Mr. Mehsud and his military network have been blamed for a wave of violence across Pakistan, including the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister.

The militant leader also seemed to take pleasure in taunting Pakistani officials and holding news conferences to demonstrate the inability of officials in Islamabad to rein in his network.

Mr. Mehsud pledged to attack Washington, but American officials did not take the threat seriously. Still, his network is believed to have close ties to Qaeda leaders in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

The C.I.A. made killing Mr. Mehsud one of its top priorities this year, partly at the urging of Pakistan’s civilian government. Pakistani officials, including President Asif Ali Zardari, had complained that the campaign of missile strikes by American drones was killing only militants responsible for killing American troops in Afghanistan.

Since then, the State Department has offered a reward of as much as $5 million for Mr. Mehsud. The C.I.A. also began trying to track his daily movements, and American intelligence officials believed on several occasions that they had almost killed him.

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Past news :- Baitullah Mehsud believed to responsible for Bhutto assassinations.

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Insider story : Pakistan Taliban.Peace talks between the Pakistani government and Taliban rebels have collapsed as the government refused to pull its troops out of its tribal border region with Afghanistan. Inside Story asks what the failure of the talks will mean for Pakistan.

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