Four members of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group in Pakistan are being questioned by U.S. officials over possible ties to Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad, Pakistani authorities said today.   More

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Times Square, Herald Square Traffic Changes To Be Made Permanent
NEW YORK — New York City will keep Broadway permanently closed to traffic in Times Square and Herald Square. The pedestrian plazas were created on two stretches of Broadway last year in a plan that attracted worldwide attention. The goals were to reduce pollution, increase safety and improve traffic flow. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday the city has decided to keep the pedestrian walkway. The eight-month experiment has annoyed drivers. But it’s been positively reviewed by pedestrians and tourists. The city released data Thursday of the resulting midtown traffic patterns. Taxi trips were studied using GPS. The results were not as promising as hoped. But Bloomberg said the overall effects make the project worth keeping..

The Feds Who Got Times Square Suspect
Customs agent who took times square bomber Faisal Shahzad off the emirates airliner and arrested him..

Official: Times Square suspect had Taliban ties
Investigators believe that Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad had ties to TTP, a Pakistani Taliban group, a senior law enforcement official and a U.S. intelligence official said Thursday..

Video: Times Square Suspect in Fireworks Store
Faisul Shahzad Seen Browsing, Buying Fireworks at Eastern Pennsylvania Store.

Official: Times Square suspect probably had training
New leads developed from the Pakistani end of the investigation into the failed Times Square bombing show that Faisal Shahzad probably had training in Pakistan from extremists, according to a senior U.S. official..

AG: Times Square Suspect’s Cooperation ‘Ongoing’
AG: Faisal Shahzad’s cooperation is ‘ongoing’.

Terror group that claimed Times Square bomb is one of many
Tehrik i Taliban Pakistan says Faisal Shahzad was its agent, but several groups in Pakistan alone have US in their sightsThe Tehrik i Taliban Pakistan (TTP), led by the ruthless firebrand Hakimullah Meshud and formed in 2006, is the most notorious of Pakistan’s Taliban groups and has been responsible for much of the suicide violence that has rattled the nuclear-armed nation over the last four years. The TTP’s reach extends across the tribal belt along the Afghan border although its capacity to strike has been impaired over the past six months following major army and frontier corps drives into South Waziristan and Bajaur. The TTP’s founding father, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in a CIA drone strike on his in-laws’ home last summer. His successor, Hakimullah, survived a similar missile attack in January, although he only recently re-emerged to disprove accounts of his death.The TTP is dominated by Pashtuns ” the same ethnic group as the Afghan Taliban ” and its stated goal is the creation of an Islamist emirate in Pakistan. Recently, though, it appears to have broadened its ambitions to embrace the global Islamist vision of al-Qaida, whose leaders shelter in TTP-controlled areas.Hakimullah Mehsud appeared in a video alongside a Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven CIA agents at a base in Afghanistan last December; in April it attacked the American consulate in Peshawar. Last Sunday one of Hakimullah’s senior deputies, Qari Hussain Mehsud, claimed responsibility for Faisal Shahzad’s failed attack on Times Square.

Shahzad’s father questioned in Times Square inquiry
A high-level team of U.S. and Pakistani investigators grilled the father of the Times Square car bombing suspect and interrogated four people linked to a notorious Pakistani militant group, intelligence officials said Thursday..

4 questioned in Pakistan over Times Square bomb plot
Four members of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group in Pakistan are being questioned by US officials over possible ties to Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad, Pakistani authorities said today. Law enforcement officials from both countries have joined forces to try and pinpoint Shahzad’s actions and whom he met in….

Times Square bombing suspect botched dry-run getaway, too
The admitted Times Square terrorist was so meticulous in his planning that he did a dry run the night before his failed attack — mapping out the perfect route to the spot where he wanted to carry out the carnage, The Post has learned. Faisal Shahzad drove from his home….

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Times Square aftershocks: Close call exposes security gap – USA Today
Authorities added Faisal Shahzad's name to the no-fly list around noon on Monday, but Emirates Airlines sold the Times Square bomb suspect a ticket to Dubai …

Times Square aftershocks: Arrest stirs loose talk on rights – USA Today
Yet, in the days since the arrest of alleged Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized US citizen, a debate has erupted over eradicating his rights …

Times Square bomb fireworks came from Pike County store – Pike County Courier
MATAMORAS — Almost two months before he left his explosives laden Nissan SUV on a corner in the heart of Times Square, Faisal Shahzad was in Matamoras …

Norton would strip rights from Times Square bomb suspect – The Colorado Independent
… Republican US Senate candidate Jane Norton said that US citizen Faisal Shahzad, suspected of planting a truck bomb in Times Square, should be stripped …

Name on No-Fly List Delays Emirates Flight – New York Times (blog)
Like the turnaround of a flight on Monday night that led to the arrest of Faisal Shahzad, the man suspected of placing a car bomb in Times Square, …

Veteran vendor called Times Square hero – People’s Daily Online
Vendor Lance Orton narrates his story of discovering the case of failed car bomb attack at the Times Square in New York of the US, May 6, 2010. …

George Pataki’s Times Square bomb plot nonsense – Washington Post (blog)
Of course, I'm talking about the Times Square scare and the jockeying by Democrats and Republicans. We had House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) …

Mayor Plans To Keep 892 Cops, Axe 6400 Teachers – Gothamist
Thanks to the Times Square car bombing attempt and an uptick in crime (compared to recent years), Mayor Bloomberg is abandoning plans to layoff 892 police …

TERRORIST LEFT GETAWAY KEYS IN TIMES SQ CAR ; NY bomber’s string of blunders – American Chronicle
BUNGLING Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad left the keys to his getaway car in the vehicle he had left packed with explosives. …

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Times Square Bomb Suspect ‘Fan’ of Prominent Radical Cleric
Times Square bomb plot suspect Faisal Shahzad is a –fan and follower” of a radical American-born cleric linked to the Fort Hood attack in November and the attempted jet bombing on Christmas Day, sources tell Fox News.

Times Square Suspect Has Right to Remain a Citizen
In the view of certain members of Congress, the problem with constitutional rights in this country is that every American gets them.

Beyond Times Square: The Threat from Pakistan
No longer satisfied with targeting India, Pakistan’s extremist groups are taking direct aim at the U.S. and its allies

Muslim Vendor Gets No Credit in Helping to Foil Times Square
As the media focuses on the fact that the suspect in the failed Times Square bomb plot is a Pakistani Muslim. What about the man who first noticed the smoke rising from the SUV– A street vendor, a Muslim immigrant from Senegal, says he first sounded the alarm and helped stop the plot. [Includes rush transcript]

Swift Response to Times Square Plot Shows We Can Handle Terr
Fifty-three “is a pretty good number,” Police commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday, referring to the number of hours it took for investigators to apprehend the suspect.

Muslim Who Alerted Police in Times Square, Interviewed VIDEO
After being ignored by all the major U.S. network and newspapers, Senagalese Muslim immigrant Aliou Niasse, who alerted police to the failed Times Square car bomb was interviewed by NPR’s Democracy Now. Niasse, who works in Times Square as a street vendor, recalled alerting the police to the car bomb and his thoughts on Muslims & the USA.

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Tourist Fare in Times Square–Yuck!
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ATT: NYC Monday nights Platinum party is going down in Times Square @ BB king’s — RT RT RT | TweetPhoto
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The 10 Worst Things to Eat Around Times Square, NYC
Want to eat healthy and have a salad for lunch– Here are a couple of your salad bar options at Smiler’s Deli.April is the cruelest month, as the poet who wrote Cats once noted, and maybe that’s … Continue reading "The 10 Worst Things to Eat Around Times Square, NYC" >

We’re taking over Times Square! Our billboard for Christina Aguilera’s “Not Myself Tonight” – | TweetPhoto
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King Tut exhibition impresses with golden relics and toys at the Discovery Times Square Exposition
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