By Steve Hynd
The man who bought the Nissan Pathfinder SUV used in the failed Times Square bomb plot has been arrested in Long Island at JFK airport. MSNBC has the details. He is named as a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, Shahzad Faisal, who had recently been in Pakistan.
The officials said the man was a Connecticut resident who paid cash weeks ago for the SUV parked in Times Square on Saturday and rigged with a crude propane-and-gasoline bomb.
NBC's Williams reported the man's name was on an e-mail that was sent to the seller of the car last month, as well as other evidence suggesting he had a role in the attempted bombing.
The FBI have taken over the investigation and it looks like authorities may be looking for at least three others. The NYT suggests that the 40-something white man seen in an earlier video may not be linked to attempted explosion.
Marc Ambinder writes:
The Justice Department had notified a network pool that an announcement would be made at 1:00 am ET and asked networks not to report the fact of the announcement, whatever it would be. An official later told me that the lives of FBI agents would be placed in danger if news leaked that an arrest was imminent. At about 12:30 am ET, officials began to confirm that an arrest had been made between 11:30 pm and midnight.
And he tweeted:
Fed officials angry at media for reporting Faisal arrest before official announcement
It looks like a lot of this story is still up in the air and developing.
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