FBI TRUE Exclusive Clip: Agents Recall the 2010 Times Square Attack
November 3, 2023 by Marisa Roffman
“Terror in Times Square: Chasing a Madman” – On May 1, 2010, a T-shirt vendor in Times Square notices a man lighting a truck on fire, and it soon becomes clear the vehicle contains a massive bomb. Panic sets in as tourists flee the area and the NYPD bomb squad gets called in. When the bomb is rendered inert the manhunt begins. The FBI soon determines that the elusive bomber has ties to the Pakistani Taliban, and embarks on a high-speed, high-stakes hunt to catch the bomber before he can flee the country or strike again. Peter Licata (one of the FBI’s top bomb experts who dealt with more than 300 Improvised Explosive Devices on missions to Iraq and led the Weapons of Mass Destruction Squad for New York City in 2010), former Supervisory Special Agent for the New York Domestic Terrorism Squad Greg Ehrie (recruited from the U.S. Air Force to join the FBI working organized crime and intelligence cases) and Richard Frankel (got his start in the FBI investigating the infamous Gambino crime family, moved into national security after the 9/11 attacks, and by 2009 was responsible for working domestic terrorist threat cases for the Bureau’s New York field office) dive deep with fellow agent Kristy Kottis into the hunt to find the terrorist behind this attack. CBS Original series FBI TRUE, scheduled to air Tuesday, Nov. 7 (9:01-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Pictured (L-R): Gregory Ehrie, Special Agent-In-Charge, FBI, Retired, Peter Licata, Senior Special Agent Bomb Technician, FBI – Retired, and Richard Frankel, Associated Director of National Intelligence, FBI – Retired. Photo: CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Highest quality screengrab available.
On the Tuesday, November 7 FBI TRUE double-header, the CBS docuseries explores Operation Knockout and the 2010 attack in Times Square. (Both episodes are brand new, having never aired on CBS or Paramount+ before.)
In an exclusive clip from the second part, “Terror in Times Square: Chasing a Madman,” the agents who were first on the scene recall arriving to hear about a car that was lit on fire…and caused pandemonium in Manhattan.
Watch what they discovered below…
Here’s what CBS teases about the episode: “On May 1, 2010, a T-shirt vendor in Times Square notices a man lighting a truck on fire, and it soon becomes clear the vehicle contains a massive bomb. Panic sets in as tourists flee the area and the NYPD bomb squad gets called in. When the bomb is rendered inert the manhunt begins. The FBI soon determines that the elusive bomber has ties to the Pakistani Taliban, and embarks on a high-speed, high-stakes hunt to catch the bomber before he can flee the country or strike again. Peter Licata (one of the FBI’s top bomb experts who dealt with more than 300 Improvised Explosive Devices on missions to Iraq and led the Weapons of Mass Destruction Squad for New York City in 2010), former Supervisory Special Agent for the New York Domestic Terrorism Squad Greg Ehrie (recruited from the U.S. Air Force to join the FBI working organized crime and intelligence cases) and Richard Frankel (got his start in the FBI investigating the infamous Gambino crime family, moved into national security after the 9/11 attacks, and by 2009 was responsible for working domestic terrorist threat cases for the Bureau’s New York field office) dive deep with fellow agent Kristy Kottis into the hunt to find the terrorist behind this attack.”
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