Posted by Damozel | The Times Square blast damaged the front of the Armed Services Career Center in Times Square.(NYT) No one was hurt. (NYT) An 'improvised explosive device' did the damage, according to NYC police.(NYT) The area was cordoned off for two hours while police checked for secondary devices.(NYT) The device blew a hole through the front door of the recruitment center. (NYT) Video surveillance recorded the attacks. Authorities are looking into connections with attacks in 2007 on the Mexican consulate and in 2005 on the British consulate. (NYT)
Members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the large Police Department and F.B.I. unit that investigates terrorism, were at the scene of the blast, supporting the Police Department’s Bomb Squad, which along with other police detectives likely will take the lead role in investigating the incident, an F.B.I. official said....
At about 3:40 a.m. on Oct. 26, 2007, two dummy hand grenades that had been fashioned into crude bombs exploded outside the Mexican Consulate at 27 East 39th Street in Murray Hill, shattering windows. The building was not occupied and no one was hurt. At 3:55 a.m. on May 5, 2005, two crude but powerful explosive devices detonated outside the British Consulate at 845 Third Avenue in East Midtown, shattering windows and damaging a planter. (NYT)
The recruiting station is a frequent site for antiwar protests. (NYT) Even so, observes the NYT, "until today, the only major threat to the station seemed to come from pigeons." The Department of Homeland Security is "monitoring" the situation. (NYT) Their spokesperson said, "[T]here is no credible information to suggest there is an imminent threat against the homeland at this time." The FBI is conducting a probe. (Reuters)
John Cole at Balloon Juice:
Some jackass threw an incendiary device through the window of a recruiting station in Times Square, so you all know what that means- another 5 weeks of LIEBERALS HATE AMERIKKA from the chest-thumping, cheeto-munching chickenhawk brigade. Take it away, Captain Ed, new skipper of Malkin’s Hot Air:
Given the escalating protests over military recruitment, it seems inevitable that people would bomb those who seek to protect the nation and fight our enemies.
Read that sentence five times and try to make sense of it. For good clean fun, use that logical formula to create your own wingnutty assertions. Here is mine:
Given the escalating stupidity in right wing blogs, it seems inevitable that people would bomb those who seek to manufacture Mountain Dew and Cheetos.
Heh.
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