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.

We were obviously talking too soon...

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.

The ineptitude of the bombmaker mirrors the squib car bomb in the UK a year ago...

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...but one simple thing to watch for. If the bomber is an American Islamist, this is significant. It means that we're seeing radical action from the folks who have to date only been talking smack on the Internet.
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