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Officials acknowledged Sunday that the range of possible suspects in Saturday night's bombing attempt in Times Square runs from a lone perpetrator to an international terrorist group like the Taliban or al-Qaida.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York City Council members' attacks on Arizona's new tough immigration law prompted Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) to pronounce his fellow elected officials "self-righteous."
WASHINGTON - New York lawmakers Sunday called the attempted Times Square bombing a reminder that New York City remains a top target for terrorists and urged the Obama administration to restore federal anti-terrorism funds it proposes to cut.
As investigators searched the crude assortment of explosives left late Saturday in a parked SUV in the heart of Times Square, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said there was no evidence to support the claim said to have been from the Pakistani Taliban taking responsibility for the terror threat.
In the 1998 Baruch College yearbook, Wesam (Khaled) El-Hanafi has the face of a young man on his way to the top.
Dressed in a suit and tie, the handsome student smiled for the camera - but just 12 years later, the picture of El-Hanafi has changed from rising star to suspected Al Qaeda militant.
For years, Johhner Morales wanted to join the U.S. Army. Last year, after graduating from Freeport High School, he signed up. But he received a letter saying he'd been rejected because he had come to the United States from Colombia at age 7 without documents.
WASHINGTON - After a year of blasting the Obama administration on his own for its handling of terrorism suspects, White House security and Guantánamo Bay, Rep. Peter King Thursday became the House GOP's official voice, and critic, on national security.
In the effort to be less the Party of No, and more the Party of Not So Fast Mr. President, Minority Leader John Boehner has tapped one of his more bi-partisan members, Long Island Rep. Pete King, to head a new GOP panel on national security.
Each day on Long Island, hundreds of police officers take to the roads to protect New York City from the unthinkable.
Wearing portable radiation detectors on their belts, officers in Suffolk and Nassau counties are on the front line of stopping terrorists from carrying out the kind of attack officials fear most: the detonation of a nuclear device or a radiologic "dirty" bomb.
Congressman Peter King discusses President Obama's remarks about Wall Street and renewing his push to convince Main Street and Capitol Hill of the need for sweeping financial regulations. Listen by clicking here.