NYC cops foil terror attack

“We are very lucky,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. “We avoided what could have been a very deadly event,” he said.

Meanwhile, an Internet video purportedly from Pakistani Taliban group, Tarik-e-Taliban, claimed responsibility for the car bomb attempt, the US monitoring service SITE said on Sunday.

Posted on YouTube, the video said the attempted bombing was in revenge for the recent killing of two top al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq.