So that apparently poorly constructed, possibly amateurish car bomb left in a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder parked on West 45th Street in Times Square? Now the Washington Post reports it "increasingly appears to have been coordinated by several people in a plot with international links, Obama administration officials said Tuesday. Emerging from a series of briefings, several officials said it was premature to rule out any motive but said the sweeping, multi-state investigation was turning up new clues."
One official told the WaPo, "Don't be surprised if you find a foreign nexus.... They're looking at some tell-tale signs and they're saying it's pointing in that direction." According to the Post, Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island), who sits on the House Homeland Security Committee, "said there was no intelligence chatter before or conversation after the car was found -- but warned that that all possibilities must be considered." And Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that all leads are being pursued.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "I would say that was intended to terrorize, and I would say that whomever did that would be categorized as a terrorist." The Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility for the bomb, but so far officials have said there's no link.
