Bloomberg: Bomber Angry —Say, Over Health Bill

Mayor makes wrong call on Times Square suspect
By Emily Rauhala,  Newser Staff
Posted May 4, 2010 6:33 AM CDT

Bloomberg's pick for the Times Square bomber? An anti-health bill nut. Before Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested trying to flee the country last night, Mayor Bloomberg told Katie Couric he thought the bomb was probably planted by a
"homegrown" terrorist. "Maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill," he says in a video posted on Mediaite. Or, maybe not.

Click here for more on the Times Square bomb scare.
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