Times Square car bomb fails to detonate

"New York City police have disarmed what the mayor has described as an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb in a sport utility vehicle parked in Times Square.
Heavily armed police evacuated the area Saturday after a T-shirt vendor reported smoke coming from a Nissan Pathfinder on 45th Street around 6:30 p.m. ET. The vehicle had its engine running and hazard lights flashing.
Officers cleared the streets as investigators removed three propane tanks, fireworks, two full 19-litre gasoline containers and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components from the vehicle, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said."

Well it will be interesting to see where this leads to. One wonders why something like this hasn't happened before. It seems simple enough; steal a car, rig it with explosives, park it somewhere and calmly walk away from it. And why leave the engine running and hazard lights flashing?

This may get the conspiracy theorists going, and by that I mean the ones who believe that 9/11 was an inside job. As dreadful as that sounds, there are groups of Americans who believe it. This type of thing, as explained above, is infinitely easiet to plan and execute than flying planes into buildings.

And the bomb need not go off to be effective. For example, in Kabul there were incidents of old rockets attached to old batteries found in the city. One was quite close to our camp and pointed at it. I was talking to a friend in Intelligence afterwards and commented ,that from the look of the photos I seen, that it didn't look like it would work. He told me it doesn't have to work. Just placing these types of devices around the city proves that the security of the city is low.

So that could explain the "amateurish" explosive device. All the parts of the bomb are readily available and can be slapped together easily. And again it doesn't have to work, just look somewhat like a bomb.

So it could be:

1 - A planned terrorist attack that didn't work;
2 - A planned terrorist attack that was not designed to work;
3 - A planned attack by some homegrown organization;
4 - The work of some lone nutjob;
5 - A planned simulated attack by an inside organization, ie CIA; or
6 - An innocent fire in someone's SUV that just happened to hold items that resemble bomb making stuff.

As I started with, it will be interesting to see where this leads to.
Will there be more attacks?
Will it be linked to an Iranian organization, thus facilitating an invasion of Iran?
Will it be linked to some homegrown organization? or
Will it just fade away in the news?

Yes, interesting indeed.