Owner of SUV found - More video of shirt-man to come

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/nyregion/04bomb.html?hp

Should be interesting.

Sorry for the morbidity.

is the top of his head bald or is he wearing a white yamaka?

What is your deal with a comment like that?

I'm just trying to ID his personal characteristics...

sensitive, perhaps?

No agenda for you.

The man has the gait of a dancer. Shall we crack down on chorus lines as well?

That's a very small turban. OMG, it's an A-rab! :scared:

Franciscan maybe? Don't know what they would have against banks.

Something which wall street clearly is thumbing it's nose at.

see otherwise!? At first it looked like he had on a baseball cap, anyone else think that?

Granted, its not pronounced as its spelled, but if you are going to use the word, look up the spelling!

from the web:

Did you say Yamaka or Yarmulke?

Yamaka, Yarmulke, Kippah(or kippa) - every name ever used to designate Jewish Scull Cap goes back in history. Yamaka is actually rarely spelled that way, and ironically Yarmulke is often pronounced Yamaka. Why? We suspect that World Wide Web and search engines had a lot to do with that. You see, Yamaka also happens to be:

Sounding too similar to the name of the famous Japanese motorcycle. While Yamaha is certainly a great piece of the machinery, it is hardly a hot item for too many Yamaka wearing Jews.
Yamaka seems to be a pretty common Japanese name. Once again - wrong web traffic to Yamaka selling website
Yamaka also happens to be the name of one of the Buddist books. You get the picture

Origins of Yamaka - the word
Yiddish word Yamaka (Yarmulke) most likely comes from the Aramaic, yira malka, which means "awe of the King." The word Kippah in Hebrew actually means ?dome?. Kippah (or Kippot for plural) has become much more widely used to designate the skullcap worn by Jewish men.



In Germany, Beer is spelled BIER.

So why does Beck's in my store say BEER?

Funny is that most of us Hebrews call it a beanie

never know when some franciscan friar is going to go nuts and try to blow the time square sodomite sinners to bejeebus.

:shrug:

it could happen!

:silly:

Anyone checking up on this!? We might have a new enemy to hate now.

:grr:

:eyes:

either I'll be right or I'll be wrong. I'm prepared to be wrong ;)

Which could make him just about any male, anywhere.

You are aware that people of the Muslim faith don't wear yarmulkes, right?

I just pointed it out as an ID characteristic thing...

:eyes:

my agenda is a consistent message that this nation is involved in an eternal quagmire I refer to as Afghanistnam. The longer this nation is THERE, the more problems will come HERE, not to mention the hundreds of US lives lost over THERE along with hundreds of civilians.

Same feelings?

but we knew what we got with Iraq. Shrub's hidden agenda, faulty intelligence, shock n awe, welcomed with rose petals.... yeah that was 100% stupid. And I was ticked off about it for years.

But... SHRUB did it. And like it or not... as POTUS he had the "presidential power" to do it. We all KNOW it was wrong, immoral, possibly illegal, ill planned, ill executed, a waste of $$ and precipitated a recession.

Having said that, Obama now has the ability to get out of Afghanistnam. He has just as much "presidential power" to GTFO as Shrub had to get in.

There's nothing good to come out of it. Nothing. All you do is create a new generation of Omar's, bin Laden's and Zarqawi's...

EDIT: and as to Iraq today, it's not consuming US lives right now... they're coming home soon and the Iraqi gov't looks fairly stable. It's water under the bridge.

Afghanistan as well. I hate to say it, but I disagree with you - I think Iraq is going to turn into a partisan bloodbath as soon as we leave Iraq. I don't know about Afghanistan, it seems all we've done is embolden the druglords that have been there since forever.

and it ain't what you just posted.

Parallels between NY City attempted bombing and Timothy McVeigh’s bombing:

The botched NY bombing shares a number of striking parallels with the Timothy McVeigh bombing in Oklahoma City beside the obvious vehicle-building-walk-away narrative . . . although that, in itself, is very compelling–the botched bomber replicating the act of his (or her?) hero in broad strokes. But there seem to be a couple light strokes as well.

The botched bomber placed eight bags of fertilizer which the investigators say was non-explosive, into a gun box. If he knew the fertilizer was useless, it would be a clear homage to McVeigh. (The gun box being a tip of the hat to McVeigh's military background.) (If he didn't know this it could still be an homage, hoping to replicate his hero's methods as closely as possible.)

The NY attempted bomber locked the van's doors, leaving the keys inside. Some accounts say McVeigh left the keys in the Ryder's cab and locked the doors. (I think the case is that he took the keys, but there is no accounting where these people get their information. Source: http://history1900s.about.com/cs/crimedisaster/p/okcitybombing.htm)

Fireworks went off in the NY van alerting vendors. The attempted bomber appeared to be inept in a number of ways, so it is not likely that the clock set off the fireworks. It is more likely that he lit a long fuse. Similarly, McVeigh lit two fuses just before he left the Ryder.


Additionally, MSNBC played a show based on The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist on the 19th of April.

I could be way off, but if I was leading the investigation I'd be putting resources into this question, hoping to find him before he is successful with his homicidal intentions.


Therefore, in an investiation taking these matters seriously:

I’d look into far-right web/hate sites, those where McVeigh is discussed glowingly. Maybe Free Republic.

Since the person’s issues were important enough to kill for, I think his alignment to McVeigh would be apparent in his screen name (anagram of “Timothy McVeigh”? a character’s name in The Turner Diaries?)

I look very closely at those who passionately referenced MSNBC’s April 19th The McVeigh Tapes.

I’d perhaps put some resource looking into the extreme fringe of the Tea Party, but I think the far-right hate sites would be more fruitful . . . (In which case the FBI should soon be onto him . . . or her!)

The VIN number is in several places, one being your engine.

I can't imagine how this fool didn't think he'd be traced and tracked down.

it missing. Just that the plates were stolen from a Ford.

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But because neither the S.U.V. used in the attempt nor the license plate on it had been reported stolen,
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/nyregion/03security.html?src=mv

Sounds more like a Turner Diaries junkie, a McVeigh.

Remember what that guy who divebombed the IRS wrote: Nothing changes until there's a body count.

I haven't seen any speculation about BofA being the target.

filed a police report on the missing vehicle, which leads me to believe it wasn't missing. I am going on parental instinct with my guess here. I am guessing the son/daughter of the owner (possibly an idiotic teenager) drives that car (hence the not filing a report or knowing it was missing). It's not too far fetched to see that son/daughter getting together with friends and doing something stupid like this. Given the immature nature of the bomb, the fireworks, nonflammable fertilizer, etc... My other thought is that, the parent is going to keep his mouth clamped shut until more information comes to light. IOW, he's not going to say,"Oh, that's my son/daughter's car." when the police come knocking on the door. My imagining is, at the end of this, we're going to see a delinquent group of children with too much time, and a stupid idea that this will make them famous.

We'll have to see.

I'm just wanting the person(s) to be found and brought before a court. Only then will we know the true motive and how to go about finding ways to discourage more of this stuff.

in using the words "furtive" and playing this video over and over again. I'm waiting to see what comes of it. It sounds like there will be roads back to those responsible.

Or could it have been at a garage for repairs and one of the servicemen's friends, etc.

This is a good angle.

It's just way beyond a teen prank. A teen prank is blowing up a mailbox -- but potentially killing dozens of people? That's not a prank. That's sociopathic.

I'm wondering if it's a Ted Kazcynski sort of thing, where you're protecting a nutso relative who borrowed the car, but you're afraid to do it until you find out more.

I've been the victim of a really stupid decision made by a teenager.

he and friends positioned Christmas decorations in obscene positions(reindeer,snowmen}and videotaped the whole thing.Thank God there wasn't youtube yet.

My son did some pretty hairy things, once involving an explosive. But the only people he ever got close to harming was himself.

the victim of a stupid decision made by a teenager.

And a life was lost because of it. Yes, I can see it turning out to be a prank. Sorry we disagree.

Doesn't appear to touch post (no fingerprints).

Seems relatively mobile, not crimped or stiff. Working man? Someone who exercises? Someone in his early 30s with early baldness?

1.) He seems rather collected, cool.

2.) He may have planned to change shirts (rather than it just being too warm) because he brought a bag so that he could put the shirt in.

3.) He seems to be wearing work books or heavy footwear.

4.) He seems agile, not stiff. Therefore, he may be in good shape, work out, be younger than supposed, or be a working man.

5.) He seems to know exactly what he is doing. He doesn't even touch the post (fingerprints).

6.) He seems in a moderate hurry (maybe NY pace) and not in an undue rush.

7.) He's male and, at least at this point, appears alone.

By the way, some reports have come out that say this man might be the same man on the tourist's video that depicted a man running north on Broadway shortly after the firecrackers went off in teh SUV.

Of course he may not have anything to do with it.