The following is via CNN:
A day after a bombing injured 29 people in a Manhattan neighborhood, police are scouring the area for clues about who was responsible for the explosion and why it happened.
“We know it was a very serious incident, but we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters Sunday. “Was it a political motivation? Was it a personal motivation? We do not know that yet.”
A few blocks away from the blast site, investigators found one possible clue: a pressure cooker, with dark-colored wiring sticking out, connected by silver duct tape to what appears to be a cellphone, officials said.
Surveillance video from Saturday shows a man dragging what appears to be a duffel bag with wheels near the site of the explosion on West 23rd street about 40 minutes before the blast, according to multiple local and federal law enforcement sources. Video shows the same man with what appears to be the same duffel bag on West 27th street about 10 minutes later, multiple law enforcement sources said.
In the video, the man leaves the duffel bag where police later found an unexploded pressure cooker. After he leaves, the video shows two men removing a white garbage bag believed to contain the pressure cooker from the duffel bag and leave it on the sidewalk, according to a senior law enforcement official and another source familiar with the video.
Investigators have not determined the relationship between the two men and the man dragging the duffel bag, the sources said.
Saturday’s explosion shook New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood and sent panicked people scrambling for cover. A police bomb squad was still investigating the unexploded device Sunday afternoon, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said.
“We don’t have everything in. Think of a jigsaw puzzle out in the street right now,” he said. “Do we think they’re related? Yes, we have to move in that direction, but right now we’re not ready to make those calls yet.”
The blast occurred on the same day an explosion went off near a Marine Corps charity run in New Jersey and a man stabbed nine people at Minnesota mall, leaving many people across the country on edge. Authorities are investigating all three incidents as possible terror acts. In New York, law enforcement officials and the mayor said that without knowing who’s responsible or what the motive was, it’s too soon to call the Saturday bombing a terror attack.
(Source: CNN)
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How can placing a bomb on the street not be terror attack? Would the honorable mayor and police brass prefer to call it littering? Or does act of war describe it better?
O’Blunder is trying to close GITMO, so where can we put these terrorists? We need more GITMOs. If these are ‘home-grown’ terrorists, GITMO is for them as well.
People, be aware, be smart, and be safe.
May Hashem grant all of us Bracha and Shalom.
thanks to the oboma and hilery
for bring the animals to america
Mr. President Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton, Pres. Nominee It is now officially too late for either of you to repent. The results of your open border policies, lies upon lies, hatred of the Land of Israel are now starting to bubble up. The last part is most significant. God is bringing to you what Israeli’s have to deal with everyday at every hour. You are both mute when it comes to these problems. In Israel and here in the United States. You can’t speak – it’s as if God himself sticks a shoe in your mouth. When you pass on from this world you will stand before the heavenly tribunal and you will need to answer the judge some very tough questions. Like why do you stand by and side with the evil people? Like why do you take out the word terrorism? Like why you make yourselves like this is not my business? You will surely be serving a very lengthy sentence. God will pay you back measure for measure. Come to think of it He already has begun pay back as the Almighty One, in one instance has removed ‘Hillary The Great’ and ‘King Obama’ from the headlines this weekend.