Car bomb found in New York's Times Square - How Should The USA react?

[Bugfatty300]

I have also read that this dude is being charged with possessing "Weapons of mass destruction"

Really? That just cracks me up. What's next, farting in a restaurant = biological warfare?

That's the legal term for bombs in this country. Well it would also be destructive device but all of those fall into WMDs too.

 

[Quackers]

If by "colony" you mean Manhattan or even NYC, then yes, please do

New Hamsphire too! I live in old hampshire

 

[IglooDame]

New Hamsphire too! I live in old hampshire

I wonder if the old York folks would object to a New York? Anyway, you wouldn't like New Hampshire - too many guns. You think the motto "Live Free or Die" would get welcomed in the UK? Besides, we wouldn't want duplicate Manchesters. As it is some poor sod shows up in the local news every year or two having booked a flight to the wrong Manchester and wondering why the flight is so much longer (or shorter) than they expected.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I have also read that this dude is being charged with possessing "Weapons of mass destruction"

Really? That just cracks me up. What's next, farting in a restaurant = biological warfare?

Yeah. Talk about hyperbole. They should call most of the recent ones "Weapons of Dubious Destruction".

 

[Quackers]

I wonder if the old York folks would object to a New York? Anyway, you wouldn't like New Hampshire - too many guns. You think the motto "Live Free or Die" would get welcomed in the UK? Besides, we wouldn't want duplicate Manchesters. As it is some poor sod shows up in the local news every year or two having booked a flight to the wrong Manchester and wondering why the flight is so much longer (or shorter) than they expected.

nah we don't want it either New York Republic (happpend b4 right?)

"Live Free or Die" is good put it though Britisih politically correct brigrade it will be in urdu or somthing

..and

 

[Narz]

how should the us government react?

By banning cars of course.

Time Square blowing up wouldn't be much of a loss though (except the human lives of course).

 

[JollyRoger]

Why, oh why, hasn't the Obama administration detained this co-conspirator:

Yet one fact being ignored in the American media’s sensationalist narrative about the failed bombing is that the man who was responsible for police finding the bomb was Muslim. The UK’s Times Online reports that Aliou Niasse, a Senagalese Muslim immigrant who works as a photograph vendor on Times Square, was the first to bring the smoking car to the police’s attention

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/05/senagalese-muslim-vendor/#comments

 

[Formaldehyde]

So it wasn't his Vietnam vet T-shirt salesman friend as Bloomberg alleged?

And did someone check this guy's immigration status and current business license?

 

[Karalysia]

He should be detained indefintatley in Guantanamo until we can be sure he's not a terrorist. You can never be too careful when American's safety are at stake. And for good measure he should be waterboarded.

 

[JollyRoger]

Not suprisingly, Senator Lindsey Graham goes both ways on rights available to suspected terrorists:

WASHINGTON, D.C. (GNS) - Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday opposed a renewed push by two lawmakers to get Congress to close a "terror gap" in federal law in the wake of the Times Square bombing attempt in New York City.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said the gap has allowed more than 1,000 suspected terrorists to purchase guns and explosives in the past six years and should be closed.

But Graham argued at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing that measures giving the federal government the power to deny sales to people on the U.S. terrorism watch list would violate the Second Amendment of law-abiding U.S. citizens. The terror list has some innocent people among the 400,000 names, Graham said.

http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=87131&catid=2

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wants to allow the government to interrogate U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism without warning them of their right to remain silent.

“Miranda warnings are counterproductive in my view,” Graham said at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday

http://blcnn.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/sen-lindsey-graham-miranda-rights-counterproductive/

 

[Karalysia]

Impressive doublethink.

 

[JollyRoger]

Of course Graham is doublethinking. He has to make up for the ones in his party that don't think at all.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Landlord Let Faisal Shahzad Into His Apartment After Times Square Suspect Left House Keys In SUV Bomb

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — The landlord of the suspect in the Times Square bombing attempt says he got a call from him that night saying he had lost his apartment key and needed to be let into the building.

Stanislaw Chomiak told The Associated Press that Faisal Shahzad (FY'-sul shah-ZAHD') said he had been hanging out with friends in New York City.

Authorities say he had actually left his keys in the ignition of an SUV he had loaded with firecrackers, gas and fertilizer and rigged to explode in Times Square. The bomb did not go off.

Chomiak says Shahzad told him he took cab to his Bridgeport apartment from a train station. The landlord says Shahzad lived alone and that he never saw him with anyone.

Shahzad was arrested Monday, and authorities say he is cooperating.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/landlord-let-faisal-shahz_n_564959.html

I take back my "at least he didnt set hes crotch on fire" comment.

 

[Anakha]

Fire nukes off in random directions and hope for the best.

 

[warpus]

That's the legal term for bombs in this country. Well it would also be destructive device but all of those fall into WMDs too.

Eh, since when?

So when Bush was saying that Iraq needs to be invaded cause Saddam has WMD's, he was talking about fireworks and petrol bombs?

 

[Merkinball]

Impressive doublethink.

I doubt it. He's just like Obama on nearly every issue conceivable. He's just had time to think about it, and finally had an epiphany on the toilet.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Faisal Shahzad was not read his Miranda right for 8 hours until "they got what they needed", according to a "senior US intelligence official".

 

[I'm Cleo!]

Faisal Shahzad was not read his Miranda right for 8 hours until "they got what they needed", according to a "senior US intelligence official".

It's complicated, but if "what they needed" was intelligence information, not what was needed to incriminate him, then it's okay. Even if there's overlap, there's a lot of law on the subject of pre-Miranda and post-Miranda questioning. Obviously the defense attorney will try to exclude everything, but he probably won't get it all out (of court) and Shahzad will enter a plea.

Cleo

 

[Bugfatty300]

Eh, since when?

So when Bush was saying that Iraq needs to be invaded cause Saddam has WMD's, he was talking about fireworks and petrol bombs?

Of course US criminal law has a different definition than its international counterparts.

Timothy McVeigh was also charged with using a weapon of mass destruction.