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Napolitano: NYC car bomb is 'a potential terrorist attack'

By Matt DeLong

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano took to the Sunday talk shows this morning, ostensibly to talk about efforts to protect the Gulf Coast from a potential ecological disaster due to a massive oil slick headed for land. However, Napolitano instead found herself talking about the apparent failed car bombing Saturday night in New York's Times Square.

"We're taking this very seriously," Napolitano said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We're treating it as if it could be a potential terrorist attack." She said that the FBI, New York Police Department and the Joint Terrorism Task Force are cooperating on the investigation. During an earlier appearance on "Fox News Sunday," Napolitano described the explosive device as "an amateurish type of bomb." She told NBC's David Gregory that it was "too soon to tell ... who or what groups were responsible."

On ABC's "This Week," Napolitano said that tapes from the many surveillance cameras in Times Square are being reviewed, and traditional forensic work to identify the perpetrator is ongoing. While she said the attack appeared to be an isolated incident, Napolitano urged New Yorkers to "be on their toes."

"Times Square, I think, is now safe," she said, adding that "right now we have no information other than it is a one-off."