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How Army Spy Planes Caught the Times Square Bomber (Updated)

Adrian Chen · 05/04/10 06:05PM

Faisal Shahzad's car bomb sucked, but the technology that caught him was cutting-edge: Army intelligence planes scrambled over New York, armed with Shahzad's cell phone number. They intercepted his call reserving a plane ticket to Dubai; authorities nabbed him.

CNN Thinks Google Earth 'Blurred Out' Times Square After Attack

Ravi Somaiya · 05/02/10 04:19PM

On CNN, discussing the attempted Times Square bombing, anchor Don Lemon asked former FBI Assistant Director Tom Fuentes why the area was "blurred out on Google Earth because of this security alert." Fuentes, ignorantly, said it was a security measure.