Car Bomb in Times Square New York! By: Damon Michael Torell Weiser

Found in the Pathfinder

IN THE CARGO AREA
A 55-by-32-inch “gun locker” with a pot of M-88 firecrackers and eight bags of a nonexplosive grade of fertilizer.

IN THE CARGO AREAThree propane tanks weighing 15 to 17 pounds each. One had M-88s attached to its side, some of which detonated.

ON THE BACK SEATTwo full, five-gallon red plastic gasoline containers and a 16-ounce can filled with wires and 20 to 30 M-88 devices.

BACK-SEAT FLOORTwo clocks connected to the gun locker with wires.

Get ready for some CSI stuff! On May 2nd, a normal Sunday morning with the rush of New Yorkers and commuters, a car full of explosives objects was found abandoned on west 45th street next to the Marriott Marquis. At first people walked by the car not noticing anything strange.  Although one vendor, working and doing his normal thing, noticed that the car was there for awhile. As he went up to the car he saw that it had the keys in it, and it was running. Before he could get any closer he was stopped by police, and asked if it was his car. When he replied no they inspected the car using flashlights. Later the Bomb Squad made it to the scene, after evacuating the area. 

Some people since then have reported seeing a man walking away from the scene with a dark shirt on that he then removed, and placed into a plastic bag. Some people think that this was a terrorist attempt while others think that this could have been anyone. 

Top left are some items found in the Nissan Pathfinder on the scene. The FBI, getting involved, tracked the license plate to a junkyard owned by Wayne LeBlanc. Wayne LeBlanc is a seemingly nice person. At the time of the incident he was watching "Old Yeller" with his grandkids. Wayne has nine grandkids, and had this to say when the FBI came knocking at his door at 3-am "I was sleeping, who wouldn't be? They said it was an urgent matter." The Nissan Pathfinder was sent to a forensics lab in Jamaica, Queens where it was searched for any evidence of who may have done it. Although no hairs, fibers or fingerprints were found, the lab argues that they are just beggining to analyze.

Since May 3rd there has been an update, and there has been a suspect arrested late Monday. He is a U.S citizen who had just come back from a trip to Pakistan where he was visiting his wife. Faisal Shahzad was on an airplane that was about to lift off headed towards Dubai, when FBI agents stormed the scene like a movie. They made the arrest at Kennedy Airport, New York.