Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, says in astatement posted Sunday on the BID's website that "Times Square andall the Broadway shows are open for business and we are not goingto let this stop us from living our lives and carrying on asbefore. I have full faith and confidence that the NYPD will do allin their power to find who is responsible and keep us safe." TheBroadway League issued a similar business-as-usual statement. TheNew York Daily News reported that Mayor Michael Bloombergwas planning to take NYPD Officer Wayne Rhatigan, who sprang intoaction after a street vendor alerted him to smoke curling from aparked SUV, to dinner at the Blue Fin restaurant in Times Square,both to thank him and to prove that the area is safe.

Napolitano told CNN Sunday that Homeland Security was "treatingit as if it could be a potential terrorist attack." However,Napolitano also told ABC-TV's This Week that the bomb wasnot a sophisticated device and that "right now, we have no evidenceother than it is a one-off."

A Taliban group in Pakistan reportedly claimed responsibilityfor the Saturday night incident, which would have detonated an SUVin one of the city's most crowded tourist areas. However, the samegroup also reportedly claimed credit for last year's mass murder atan immigration center in upstate Binghamton, NY, which turned outto be perpetrated by a laid-off Vietnamese immigrant with no tiesto the group.