Tuesday
May042010
Bloomberg Speculates Times Square Bomber Was Protesting Healthcare Law
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 11:35AM
Hours before U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the arrest of a Pakistani-American suspected of being involved with an attempt to detonate a car bomb in the middle of New York’s Times Square, the city’s Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, told CBS News anchor Katie Couric that the alleged attacker may have been trying to make a political statement.
Couric interviewed Bloomberg to discuss the possibility that the failed attack might have been a precursor to something bigger and potentially, more deadly. At one point, the veteran anchor asked the Mayor whether or not he thought the suspect was American.
“A home-grown?” she asked, to which Bloomberg responded, “Home-grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”
Technically, Bloomberg was right about one thing. It is now known that the suspect, Faisal Shahzad, 30, was born in Pakistan, but had lived in the U.S. for a number of years. He had a home in Bridgeport, Connecticut and was granted American citizenship last year. It is also known that Shahzad traveled to the Peshawar region of Pakistan for a period of about five months last year.
Today, a law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told a reporter with Reuters that Shahzad, who appeared in federal court to face charges of "driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1," claimed he acted alone. However, there are reports now that authorities in Pakistan say they’ve arrested a person they believe conspired with Shahzad to carry out the attack. This new revelation contradicts yet another statement Bloomberg made to Couric last night.
"There is no evidence here of a conspiracy,” he said. There is no evidence that it's tied in to anything else. It looks like an amatuerish job, done by at least one person.”
Couric interviewed Bloomberg to discuss the possibility that the failed attack might have been a precursor to something bigger and potentially, more deadly. At one point, the veteran anchor asked the Mayor whether or not he thought the suspect was American.
“A home-grown?” she asked, to which Bloomberg responded, “Home-grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”
Technically, Bloomberg was right about one thing. It is now known that the suspect, Faisal Shahzad, 30, was born in Pakistan, but had lived in the U.S. for a number of years. He had a home in Bridgeport, Connecticut and was granted American citizenship last year. It is also known that Shahzad traveled to the Peshawar region of Pakistan for a period of about five months last year.
Today, a law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told a reporter with Reuters that Shahzad, who appeared in federal court to face charges of "driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1," claimed he acted alone. However, there are reports now that authorities in Pakistan say they’ve arrested a person they believe conspired with Shahzad to carry out the attack. This new revelation contradicts yet another statement Bloomberg made to Couric last night.
"There is no evidence here of a conspiracy,” he said. There is no evidence that it's tied in to anything else. It looks like an amatuerish job, done by at least one person.”
Reader Comments (6)
WHY ARE SOCIALISTS AND RINOs LIKE BLOOMBERG POPULATING POSITIONS OF POWER?
It is now a CRIME to be a white man that cares about America.
It is time to take America back...
Remember November and vote the basturds OUT!
Did he really say this? Are you kidding me? Is the left so preoccupied with their agenda that they believe that all bad that occurs is the Republican Party? Yes, that is what they think.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are trying to deal with Islamic terror.
Wake up you idiot democrats!
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At least he didn't blame it on Bush who is supposedly responsible for everything bad in the world. Yes, liberals are totally preoccupied with their civil war against the right-wingers. It is sick and it's destroying us as a nation.
Wow Rob, you completely misread this post... it was actually Bloomberg, a republican, who was talking about it being a healthcare protest, despite the fact that he had no proof.
In fact, this now looks like it had nothing at all to possibly do with healthcare... given the fact that the guy lost his house before moving back to Pakistan and leaving his family there before coming back to the states to try and blow up times square, I'm guessing the guy probably had a bigger issue with the banks than healthcare.
Bloomberg was talking out of his ass, which was the point of this post.
And "take America back"? From who, you 'tard... most of America voted this guy in... just because you're not digging things lately, doesn't mean America has gone anywhere... this is the way it works, your side lost because the effed it up for too long...
And Proust, you'd love it if we actually did blame everything on Bush, but we don't, so you just look like a whiny bitch of a sore loser right now. Get over it, nut bag.
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