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The taliban in pakistan that the group posted on the islam in web site, saying it was responsible for the car bomb here in new york's times square, and the commissioner said so far nothing whatsoever links the group to what happened there and in fact nothing can be ruled out and the commissioner said, too, there is a great deal of evidence that is now in the hands of authorities, they have the car, incendiary device and surveillance tape and he said they have identified the owner of the nissan path finder and were able to track down where the license plate came from, from a truck in connecticu...

Unoccupied vehicle. he alerted police officer wayne ratigad of the nypd mounted unit who was patrolling times square. officer ratigan saw the vehicle, a nissan path finder which had smokey merging from vents near the back seat. he also smelled gun powder. he, with the help of police officer assigned to operation impact immediately evacuated the area and called fort fire department and more police. firefighters, emergency service officers and the bomb squad responded and the bomb squad confirmed that the suspicious vehicle did, indeed, contain an explosive device. there were gas cans and bomb-m...

>> it would have been deadly. i think had this suv, with all its parts -- it's a nice-size -- a larger suv, the path finder. it would have killed a lot of people. injured lots of people. as the mayor said, the police commissioner said, new york was lucky, and new york city has been very, very lucky, and knows it's always been a target of extremists and terrorists and people who want to bring new york city down because it represents everything that they fight against in their daily life. it represents freedom. it's a symbol of our democracy; it's a symbol of free speech. the way we can talk ton...

6:30 this entire area had been evacuated. tourists not even allowed in their hotels. as for the investigation itself, i can tell you that at this hour the authorities are combing through the nissan path finder in which the explosive device was located looking for clues. this really a gift left behind by the bombers in that the authorities have the explosive device essentially intact as well as the vehicle itself. there are reports now they are trying to match fingerprints and they are also combing through surveillance tape that was taken in the area, eric. some of that tape reportedly showed t...

Movement of this vehicle. as well as who may have been seen fleeing the vehicle, itself. but authorities aren't saying that because it had tipted windows right now it seems unlikely that any of the cameras were able to document who was inside this nissan pathfinder. now, as for other evidence here, authorities may have received what would amount to a gift from the would-be bombers. that is because the path finder and the incendiary device did not explode. they have the vehicle in itself removed from times square early this morning, taken away on a flat bed truck covered with a yellow tarp. hom...