GEO 436 NEW YORK: New York police evacuated part of Times Square on Friday to investigate a suspicious package a week almost after a car bomb was discovered in the same area. “We”re responding to a suspicious package,” a spokesman for the New York Police Department (NYPD) told a foreign news agency. “We will be taking all necessary precautions.” On May 1 police found a large, but malfunctioning car bomb in Times Square, sparking a 53-hour manhunt that ended with the arrest of Pakistani-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad. A three-block stretch of the sprawling Times Square was cordoned off Friday, and a large number of police cars and officers were responding. A foreign television reported that the suspicious package was in a drinks cooler near a Marriott hotel. Times Square is one of the most densely packed areas in New York and a major tourist destination. New York is jittery after last week’’s bomb scare. However, there have been a number of false alerts reported to the authorities since then. Meanwhile, interrogators were grilling Shahzad for a fourth day in a bid to resolve the puzzle of whether he has links to Pakistani jihadist groups, as he allegedly claims. Shahzad, 30, has still not appeared in court or been seen in public since his dramatic arrest late Monday as he attempted to fly from New York to Dubai.
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