Questions About 'Devastating' Times Square Bomb Test

A recent ABC article includes a video showing some impressive explosive power in a Joint Terror Task Force test of a bomb they claim to be the same as the Times Square Bomber's bomb.

Did they use the firecrackers that Faisal Shahzad used for this test which were the wrong firecrackers, which would have never blown anything up according to experts involved with the case?

The fireworks -- M88 Silver Salutes -- will only explode if they are individually lit, according to Bruce Zoldan, who owns the 55-store Phantom Fireworks chain, which includes the Matamoros outlet where Shahzad made his buy.

Zoldan said Shahzad probably believed that the 152 M88 Silver Salutes he left in a Nissan Pathfinder next to canisters of gasoline and propane and bags of fertilizer would ignite as a group if one was set alight next to them, which is not the case.

Instead, the bomb Shahzad admittedly left in the Pathfinder in Times Square on Saturday evening only smoldered after he lit at least one of the firecrackers, investigators said. And the fertilizer left in the bomb turned out to be non-explosive, which meant the explosion caused by any successful ignition of the propane and gasoline would have been much less powerful.

Did they also use the wrong fertilizer which Faisal Shahzas used?

New York police officers have claimed that the would be car bomber at Times Square had more than 100 pounds of fertilizer, but not the kind that would explode.

Instead of using ammonium nitrate, police said the alleged bomber used harmless fertilizer.

None of the so called journalists ask, but no doubt the Joint Terror Task Force didn't use the same "wrong" materials for their bomb, or it would have been an unimpressive dud, and not suited for the purposes of brainswashing and propaganda.



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Times Square Bomber Had Pakistani Army, US Embassy

Foiled Times Square Rinky-Dink Terror Makes Powerful

ISI/CIA Connected "Terror Groups" Connected to TImes Square

Times Square Bomber Had Pakistani Army, U.S. Embassy Connections

A Pakistani Army Major, as well as a caterer for the U.S. embassy in Pakistan, have been arrested in connection with the investigation into the Times Square Bomber according to the New York Times.

Additionally, the Air Force officer father of Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square Bomber, also knew the arrested Army Major personally.

Mr. Shahzad is the son of a retired senior Pakistani Air Force officer, and it appeared that the arrested army major was an acquaintance of Mr. Shahzad’s father, according to a British terrorism expert, Sajjan Gohel, who is familiar with the investigation into the Times Square bombing.

The major may have helped Mr. Shahzad get in touch with the Pakistani Taliban and may have helped him travel to North Waziristan, Mr. Gohel said.

It is also stated in the article that "the nation’s premier spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, is in charge of the investigation of the case, Pakistani officials have said."

The ISI itself has often been mentioned in connection with the 9/11 Hijackers, the Taliban and also Al-Qaeda which was originally created by both them and the CIA to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, Ex-Director of the ISI, has also been accused of funneling money to Mohammed Atta in connection with the 9/11 terror plot.

So what's the conundrum we are left with here? A 9/11 terror connected spy agency with close ties to the CIA is investigating the possible Pakistani Army and U.S. Embassy connections of the Times Square Bomber, who is accused of working in collusion with the Taliban, who were supported by the ISI itself.

Welcome to the so-called War on Terror.

Foiled Times Square Rinky-Dink Terror Makes Powerful Propaganda?

From a week old Huffington Post article we can hear the President wax poetic about American resolve in the face of terror threats:


President Barack Obama said "hundreds of lives" may have been saved Saturday night by the quick action of ordinary citizens and law enforcement authorities who saw the smoking SUV parked in Times Square."As Americans and as a nation, we will not be terrorized. We will not cower in fear. We will not be intimidated," Obama said.

But will we be lied to? Manipulated? Deceived, Mr. President?

The New York Times admits in an article that the Times Square bomber is a perfect opportunity for the administration to acheive some long sought after goals.

...The administration sees the Times Square plot as a reason to push the Pakistanis to do several things it has long desired. “Sometimes things like this are an opportunity,” the official said.

An article in Mother Jones asks the obvious question about why the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force was reported to have been asking questions about Shahzad as early as 2004, and also, why they deny to have ever investigated him.

As asked in a previous post, if Holder and others want to fly with the Pakistani-Terrorcamp-Trained side of things, how can they explain that the Taliban trained him to build a bomb which had the wrong fertilizer?

In a NY Post article "Frank Doyle, a former bomb expert and 33-year FBI veteran, said he doubted Shahzad received proper training in Pakistan or elsewhere to build a bomb, particularly when it came to what type of fertilizer he used.
'I would question his degree of training or whatever he knew about it," Doyle told FoxNews.com. "That's only one of a series of really serious mistakes he made.'"

As pointed out in another article, not only did Faisal buy the wrong kind of fertilizer, he also bought the wrong kind of fireworks.

The fireworks -- M88 Silver Salutes -- will only explode if they are individually lit, according to Bruce Zoldan, who owns the 55-store Phantom Fireworks chain, which includes the Matamoros outlet where Shahzad made his buy.

Nonetheless our dear President talks of the "hundreds of lives" saved by the quick identification of the dangerous bomb-containing SUV parked in Times Square with its hazard lights flashing, containing a bomb with the wrong fertilizer and the wrong firecrackers to ever properly ignite. No propaganda there, none whatsoever I'm sure.

We haven't yet mentioned the oft-noted "Timing Device" of the bomb. Here is a picture of it, if you haven't already seen it.



Well, this War on Terror is an ongoing problem. Something our next President will also have to deal with I'm sure. But I have no fear, because our fierce and valiant President will look like this:



See Also: Times Square Bomber Had Pakistani Army, U.S. Embassy Connections

ISI/CIA Connected "Terror Groups" Connected to TImes Square Bomber

From Prison Planet.

A man arrested in Pakistan in connection with the Times Square car bombing attempt who had traveled with accused bomber Faisal Shahzad is a member of a terrorist organization that is controlled by British MI6 and the CIA.