NYPD: Video Has Possible SUV Bomb Suspect in Alley

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Source: Associated Press

NYPD: Video Has Possible SUV Bomb Suspect in Alley
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 2, 2010


Filed at 7:43 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- Police investigating a terror attack that could have set off a deadly fireball in Times Square focused Sunday on finding a man who was videotaped shedding his shirt near the SUV where the bomb was found. They also were trying to determine whether more than 100 pounds of a fertilizer-like substance in the vehicle could have made the crude device even more devastating.

The video shows an unidentified white man in his 40s slipping down an alley, taking off one shirt and 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, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

The homemade bomb was made largely with ordinary items including three barbecue grill-sized propane tanks, two 5-gallon gasoline containers, store-bought fireworks and cheap alarm clocks attached to wires. If successfully detonated, police said at a minimum it would have sprayed shrapnel and metal parts over one of America's busiest streets, full of Broadway theaters and restaurants, on a Saturday night.

''The intent of whoever did this to cause mayhem, create casualties,'' Kelly said.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/02/us/AP-US-Times-Square-Car-Bomb.html?_r=2

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Updated 8:03 pm (hat tip to brooklynite):
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/02/us/AP-US-Times-Square-Car-Bomb.html?_r=1