{"id":2304,"date":"2010-05-02T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T07:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-05-02T07:28:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T07:28:59","slug":"friday_night_ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Chats and Times Square Car Bombs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Totten and a few others were at the house talking global politics and we were all shaking our heads that no meaningful terrorist attacks had hit the US in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>We were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/02\/nyregion\/02timessquare.html?hp\" target=\"browser\">obviously talking too soon&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The police discovered a car bomb in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers from the area on a warm and busy Saturday evening.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ineptitude of the bombmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSL2919779720070630\" target=\"browser\">mirrors the squib car bomb in the UK a year ago<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously lots to learn as the investigation progresses, and lots and lots of possibilities here from white power to Islamists to pro-p0rn advocates upset that Times Square was cleaned up&#8230;but one simple thing to watch for. If the bomber is an American Islamist, this is significant. It means that we&#8217;re seeing radical action from the folks who have to date only been talking smack on the Internet.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who set the failed NY car bomb?? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}