Roadside Bomb Blast Kills Five in Karachi, third this week

Security officials examine a bus after it was damaged by a bomb in Karachi April 28, 2011. The roadside bomb hit the bus carrying Pakistani navy officials in the port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing three people and wounding at least seven,Taliban militants in Pakistan extended their campaign of violence Thursday against the country's security forces, targeting the navy for the third time this week with a bombing that killed five in the southern city of Karachi ...

Car bomb kills 30 at Pakistan fuel station

The explosion appears to have targeted offices of the nation's intelligence agency. More than 90 people are injured. Pakistani rescue workers carry a man injured by a car bomb in Faisalabad.

Egyptian President Condemns Deadly Explosion Outside Church in Alexandria

Car bomb hits church in Egypt, 21 killed

The aftermath of a bomb blast in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria

A car bombing outside a church killed 21 people in Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year, security and medical sources said today.

The Interior Ministry earlier said 24 people were also wounded in the bombing, which prompted hundreds of Christians to take to the streets in protest. Some Christians and Muslims pelted each other with rocks, a witness said. Cars were torched.

Christians in Muslim-majority Egypt make up about 10 per cent of the nation’s 79 million people.

Egypt, due to hold a presidential election in September, has stepped up security around churches, restricting cars from parking directly outside them, after an al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq issued a threat against the church in Egypt in November.

The al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq, which claimed an attack on a church in Baghdad in November, threatened the Egyptian church over its treatment of women the group said the church was holding after they had converted to Islam.

“This is a scene from Baghdad,” a witness said by telephone.

Police used teargas to disperse the crowd on the streets. Ambulances were also at the scene where medical personnel gathered body parts that were scattered over the area.

“We sacrifice our souls and blood for the cross,” shouted protesting Christians near the Coptic Orthodox church where the blast struck, a witness said.

Bombing in restive west China kills 7, wounds 14

A bomb attack in China's restive Xinjiang region killed seven people and wounded 14 on Thursday, and an exile group claimed victims included members of the local police force and its auxiliary unit.

The attack was the deadliest violence reported in Xinjiang since bloody rioting in the regional capital of Urumqi last year that left 200 people dead.

The vast region bordering Central Asia has long been beset by ethnic conflict and separatist violence, leading to a massive and ongoing crackdown by security forces.

Roadside bomb kills four in military bus as Kurdish separatists step up attacks on Turkish army

Blast: A remote controlled roadside bomb has killed three Turkish soldiers and a 17-year-old girl in Istanbul

Violence: The Turkish army has stepped up military operations against Kurdish rebels in the south east of the country

Four people were killed after a roadside bomb destroyed a bus carrying military personnel and their families in Istanbul today.

The remote controlled device was detonated near a military housing complex in the district of Halkali and comes after the Turkish army stepped up operations against Kurdish rebels.

U.S. citizen faces life in jail after pleading guilty to failed Times Square bomb plot

Charges: Faisal Shahzad, 30, could face life in jail after admitting the failed bomb plot in New York's Times Square

Revenge': Shahzad admitted travelling to Pakistan for bomb-making training before carrying out the failed attack

A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen pleaded guilty to attempting to detonate a car bomb in New York's Times Square and said Islamist extremists would continue to target the U.S.

Faisal Shahzad, 30, admitted travelling to Pakistan to receive bomb-making training from a Taliban group, called Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, and receiving $12,000 (£8,000) from the group to carry out the failed attack on May 1.

NYC Bomb Suspect Weighed Other Targets-Alleged terrorist list targets Sikorsky-Times Square Car Bomb Suspect Appears in Court-More NYC Bomb Plots Planned

Official: NYC bomb suspect looked at other targets

In this courtroom sketch, Judge James Francis presides over the arraignment for Faisal Shahzad, not pictured, in federal court in New York on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in New York. The suspect in a botched car bombing in Times Square did not enter a plea to five felony charges against him.


In this courtroom sketch, defendant Faisal Shahzad sits with assistant public defender Julia Gatto, left, during his arraignment in federal court in New York on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in New York. The suspect in a botched car bombing in Times Square did not enter a plea to five felony charges against him.


Police officers set up barricades in front of Manhattan federal court, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in New York. Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in a failed car bombing in Times Square, did not enter a plea to five felony charges against him. 

While sequestered in a New York hotel room, the Times Square bomb suspect revealed he had thought about targeting other landmarks and asked investigators why the bomb he built failed to go off, people familiar with the probe said Wednesday.

Faisal Shahzad said he considered attacking Grand Central Terminal, Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, the World Financial Center near ground zero and Sikorsky Inc. — a defense contractor with an office in his Connecticut hometown — before deciding to abandon an SUV rigged with a homemade bomb in Times Square on May 1, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

Brazen attacks might signal a new Taliban strategy

Pakistan Taliban 'was behind New York Times Square bomb plot'

Family man: Shahzad (right) and with a woman thought to be his wife Huma Mian and one of their children (right)

William Weimer, of Phantom Fireworks, speaks to the media yesterday at the company's branch in Matamoras, Pennsylvannia. A video obtained by investigators allegedly shows Shahzad buying fireworks at the shop

Caught on Camera: A still from a video allegedly shows Shahzad buying fireworks prior to the bombing attempt. Authorities say he used elements of the fireworks to rig up the Times Square SUV with explosives 

This CCTV footage shows the Nissan Pathfinder, loaded with explosives, being driven into Times Square shortly before it was abandoned

The U.S. Attorney General says there is evidence the Pakistani Taliban was behind the failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square.

American authorities had previously rejected claims by the group that it was behind the May 1 plot.

Naturalised American citizen Faisal Shahzad, who was born in Pakistan, is currently facing terrorism and weapons charges after authorities said he admitted rigging a car with explosives.

Appearing on ABC Television’s This Week, Eric Holder said: ‘We’ve now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack.

‘We know that they helped facilitate it. We know that they probably helped finance it, and that [Shahzad] was working at their direction.’

He added there was nothing to suggest that the government of Pakistan was aware of the plot.

Today President Barack Obama’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser backed up the claims.

White House says Pakistan Taliban behind NY bomb

In this undated file photo from the social networking site Orkut.com, a man who was identified by neighbors in Connecticut as Faisal Shahzad, is shown. Shahzad was arrested at a New York airport on charges that he drove a bomb-laden SUV meant to cause a fireball in Times Square, federal authorities said. A day before driving the SUV with a rigged homemade bomb into Times Square, Shahzad made a test drive into the heart of the city, dropped off a getaway car blocks from his target and took a train home to Connecticut, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate hearing Thursday, May 6, 2010, that Shahzad has continued to answer questions after being read his constitutional rights, rejecting criticism that reading Shahzad his Miranda rights hindered investigators.

Citing newly obtained evidence, senior White House officials said Sunday that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the failed Times Square bombing.

The attempt marks the first time the group has been able to launch an attack on U.S. soil. And while U.S. officials have downplayed the threat — citing the bomb's lack of sophistication — the incident in Times Square and Christmas Day airline bomber indicate growing strength by overseas terrorist groups linked to al-Qaida even as the CIA says their operations are seriously degraded.

'I was expecting you. Are you NYPD or FBI?' What failed Times Square bomber said as he was arrested on flight to Dubai

Family man: Faisal Shahzad, left, and with a woman thought to be his wife Huma Mian and one of their childre

A U.S. Department of Justice graphic showing the positioning of charges in the Nissan Pathfinder allegedly driven by Shahzad and left in Times Square on Saturday

This CCTV footage shows the Nissan Pathfinder, loaded with explosives, being driven into Times Square shortly before it was abandoned

The man accused of trying to bomb New York’s Times Square told officers who arrested him: ‘I was expecting you.’

Faisal Shahzad asked: ‘Are you NYPD or FBI?’, as he was seized from his seat on a plane that was about to leave JFK airport for Pakistan.

He tried to car-bomb New York in revenge for U.S. drone attacks that killed Taliban leaders, it was claimed yesterday.
A security row erupted after it emerged he gave a surveillance team the slip and was let on to the plane because of a bungle by airline staff.

Abandoned truck on bridge not a threat, NYPD says,NYPD X-rays suspicious truck at bridge, clears it

Police X-rayed the truck, then examined it thoroughly -- including cutting a hole in the side of the truck to see whether it had an explosive device.

New York police determined that a moving truck abandoned on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge did not pose a threat.

Authorities have determined that a moving truck abandoned on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, formerly known as Triborough Bridge, did not pose a threat.

Police closed off the bridge for about two hours in both directions after being made aware of the incident around 10 p.m. Wednesday.

The department's bomb squad was called to the scene after a toll booth operator who approached the U-Haul truck smelled a strong odor of gasoline, said Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.

Man held in NYC car bomb attack to appear in court

In this combination of images taken from video released by the New York City Police Department on Sunday, May 2, 2010, a chronological sequence of frames from top left to bottom right show a man, center right, removing a dark shirt in an alleyway in New York around the time that a car began to smoke in Times Square, leading to the discovery of car bomb Saturday night. Investigators Monday were looking to speak with the man videotaped shedding his shirt near the sport utility vehicle where the bomb was found. The surveillance video shows an unidentified white man apparently in his 40s slipping down Shubert Alley and taking off his 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


Police vehicles fill a street early Tuesday morning May 4, 2010 as they search a home the center of the block in Bridgeport Conn. An arrest in the Times Square bombing was made at Kennedy Airport in New York and local, federal and state officials are searching a residence in Bridgeport.


A Pakistan-born U.S. citizen accused of driving a bomb-laden SUV into Times Square and parking it on a street lined with restaurants and Broadway theaters was to appear in court Tuesday to face charges that he tried to set off a massive fireball and kill Americans, federal authorities said.

The suspect, Faisal Shahzad, was taken into custody late Monday by FBI agents and New York Police Department detectives at Kennedy Airport while trying to board a flight to Dubai, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and other officials. He was identified by customs agents and stopped before boarding, Holder said early Tuesday in Washington.

U.S. authorities "will not rest until we have brought everyone responsible to justice," Holder said, suggesting additional suspects are being sought.

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.

Terror in Times Square: CCTV footage shows white suspect changing his clothes

Suspect: Police want to speak to a man pictured changing out of a dark jumper beside the vehicle

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

 
Police evacuated a number of streets surrounding Times Square after the car bomb was noticed at about midnight GMT, 6.30pm local time

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

New York Poice Department surveillance image of a dark SUV entering Times Square, said to be the vehicle with a bomb

* Pakistan Taliban claims responsibility for attempt
* Police investigate South Park link

New York car bomb investigators are looking into claims a man pictured on CCTV footage soon before the vehicle began smoking was behind the attempted terrorist attack.

The white man aged in his 40s was caught on camera active in a 'furtive manner' at the scene and changing out of a dark jumper to reveal a red shirt underneath.
ouring from the vehicle and saw a flash inside.

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.

First New York City car bomb since 1993 at World Trade Center

Police and Bomb Squad investigate this dark colored SUV at the corner of 45th and 7th Avenue in Times Square on Saturday night closing at least 4 to 5 blocks.

The smoking vehicle that shut down Times Square Saturday night is the first car bomb set off in the city since 1993's deadly explosion at the World Trade Center.

In late February 1993, six people were killed and 1,042 were injured when a 1,300-pound bomb in a yellow Ryder van was detonated below the north tower, blowing a hole half the size of a football field in its basement.

The attack, financed by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was a precursor to the 9/11 attacks, since the goal of the six convicted bombers was to knock down both towers.

The stunning bombing is now viewed as the opening chapter in a new era of terrorism on U.S. soil, though its significance was not immediately recognized - and, indeed, the terrorists later succeeded in their goal.

"It should have been a wake-up call for America," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told The Associated Press on the attack's 10th anniversary. "We simply didn't see it as an international conspiracy to destroy our society."

New York's finest deserve praise for stopping Times Square car bomb

"It looked like someone tried to detonate it and we got to it in time," a police source said. "This is a big deal. It has the makings of a real car bomb."

Three heroic cops and a quick-thinking street vendor stopped a madman from detonating a car bomb in the heart of Times Square last night, law enforcement officials told the Daily News.

The bomb squad used a robot to get inside the car. The running SUV was packed with three propane tanks, two red 5-gallon plastic jugs of gasoline, a clock, electrical components and a canister of gunpowder, police sources said.

Police said the blue Pathfinder appeared to be stolen and had Connecticut license plates belonging to another car.

"I did a lap around the vehicle. The inside was smoking," Rhatigan told the Daily News. "I smelled gunpowder and knew it might blow. I thought it might blow any second."

The T-shirt vendor - a Vietnam vet - told Officer Wayne Rhatigan (above) there was smoke coming from a Nissan SUV on the southwest corner of 45th St. and Broadway about 7 p.m., sources said.

Last fall's subway bombing plot was stopped by some sharp and hard-working federal agents and counter-terrorism cops.

Saturday night, our saviors were a mounted cop and two rookies.

Most nights, tourists and theatergoers might have asked the foot cops for directions or posed for pictures with the cop on the horse.

That snapshot is always big with the folks back home.

Saturday night, there were visitors who might very well owe their lives to those cops who might otherwise have seemed just one of the Big Apple sights.

After them came the firefighters and the bomb squad. The people who had come to see a Broadway show instead saw a drama for which our emergency services are constantly rehearsing.

The propane tanks and gasoline in the SUV would have been familiar to anybody who remembered the unexploded car bombs found in London in 2007.

Time Square car bomb: Cops evacuate heart of NYC after 'potential terrorist attack'

The scene at the corner of W 45th St. and Broadway in the heart of Times Square, where a car was found last night, that contained cans of flammable liquid and other explosive devices.

Police are investigating this dark-colored SUV at the corner of 45th and 7th Ave.

Officer Wayne Rhatigan grabbed two female rookie cops to help push people away from the smoking vehicle.

Three heroic cops and a quick-thinking street vendor stopped a madman from detonating a car bomb in the heart of Times Square Saturday night, law enforcement officials told the Daily News.

"It looked like someone tried to detonate it and we got to it in time," a police source said. "This is a big deal. It has the makings of a real car bomb."

The federal government views the incident a "potential terrorist attack," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday.

"We're taking this very seriously," Napolitano told CNN's "State of the Union" program. "We're treating it as if it could be a potential terrorist attack."

Cops evacuated and shut down the Times Square are Saturday night, but all streets were reopened by 7:30 a.m. Sunday.

The T-shirt vendor - a Vietnam vet - told Officer Wayne Rhatigan there was smoke coming from a Nissan SUV on the southwest corner of 45th St. and Broadway about 6:30 p.m., sources said.

Rhatigan approached the car, saw the smoke and sprang into action.

"I did a lap around the vehicle. The inside was smoking," Rhatigan told the Daily News. "I smelled gunpowder and knew it might blow. I thought it might blow any second."

He alerted two rookie female cops patrolling the area. Together, they pushed hundreds of people away from the scene as they called for backup, he said.