Things Can Change In A New York Minute, Part 2

Getting some weird information on last night's car bomb dud in Times Square.  The wingers are all over a report from the Long War Journal that a Pakistani Taliban operative is claiming responsibility for the act...

A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit for yesterday's failed car bomb attack in New York City.

Qari Hussain Mehsud, the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, said he takes "fully responsibility for the recent attack in the USA." Qari Hussain made the claim on an audiotape accompanied by images that was released on a YouTube website that calls itself the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel.

...but the NYPD is calling shenanigans on that.

New York City's police commissioner says there's no evidence of a Taliban link to a failed bomb found in an SUV parked in Times Square.

Commissioner Ray Kelly says officers are on their way to a town in Pennsylvania to talk to a man who believes he may have recorded a bombing suspect on his video camera. He says a white man in his 40s was seen taking off his shirt in an alley and putting it in a bag.

This is where things get interesting.  I have no doubt that the Taliban really is claiming credit, but it doesn't mean they did it.  Hopefully the NYPD can find some evidence and some suspects on this.

It really says something that I believe there's an equal chance that this was done by either people who hate our involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, or by people who think Obama is the enemy.  If this was a foreign attack by jihadis, well, time for Uncle Sam to roll up his sleeves again.  If this was a domestic terrorist attack...well Uncle Sam still needs to roll them up.