<p>“We are very lucky,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. “We avoided what could have been a very deadly event,” he said.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Posted on YouTube, the video said the attempted bombing was in revenge for the recent killing of two top al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq.</p>
<p>“We are very lucky,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. “We avoided what could have been a very deadly event,” he said.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Posted on YouTube, the video said the attempted bombing was in revenge for the recent killing of two top al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq.</p>
