Sunday, May 02, 2010

NYC BOMB: TERRORISM? (UPDATE)

The news as of 3:30 PM EDT on Sunday, May 2nd, is pretty much the same.  We now know that a shop manager initially saw the vehicle and notified a mounted policeman.  We know that a Caucasian-appearing individual was looking at the vehicle from an alley while taking off an outer dark shirt and leaving a red shirt underneath; that he then immediately left the area.  The white powder in the vehicle appears to be fertilizer.  The bomb is said to have been assembled in an unsophisticated manner using MD-80 firecrackers as the primer.  

I'm of the initial opinion that this is not the result of the "heated rhetoric" that President Obama claims may cause some radical extremist to do something "explosive;" neither of the shirts worn by the suspect bore the "S.E.I.U." logo.  

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