Bomb-Car Pathfinder Sold By Previous Owner to "Arabic or Latino Looking Man" in 20s or 30s Last Month

No written records of the cash sale, but these guys were sloppy, and I'm holding out hope they used a traceable email account or cellphone to initiate the sale.

U.S. law enforcement officials say there is growing evidence the Times Square bomber had ties to radical elements overseas and did not act alone.

One senior official said there are several individuals believed to be connected with the bombing and that at least one of them is a Pakistani-American.

Police release video of possible suspect seen near site of failed attack.
Attorney General Eric Holder said today the investigators had made "substantial progress" in tracking the man who drove a Nissan Pathfinder into New York's Times Square with a crude bomb that failed to detonate.

Officials declined to provide the specifics that led them to believe there were overseas links to a larger plot.

The Washington Post, quoting Obama Administration sources, said the attempted bombing "increasingly appears to have been coordinated by several people in a plot with international links."

Other law enforcement officials said the investigation was closing in on the driver of the vehicle and an unknown number of others connected to him.

"This is moving very fast because they left behind a treasure trove of evidence in the unexploded car," one US official told ABC News.

Officials told ABC News Senior Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas that the Connecticut owner of the vehicle told them he had sold the Nissan SUV last month in an unrecorded sale to an "Arabic or Latino looking man" in his 20's or 30's, for a few hundred dollars in cash.

The license plate on the car was apparently stolen from an auto repair shop outside Bridgeport, Connecticut, according to law enforcement officials.

The authorities told ABC News that the previous owner provided a description of the man who bought the car, and told investigators the vehicle was sold for several hundred dollars in cash, with no written records identifying the purchaser.

I'm not really sure it's a good idea to float every damn lead you have out to the media, just to prove you're "doing something." I assume, provisionally, you all are "doing something." Now that I've assumed that, stop leaking every step of the investigation to the press and find the guys.

posted by Ace at 05:32 PM

| Access Comments