Counterterrorism analyst Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation says the Times Square plot is an indication that al-Qaida is either not willing or not able to deploy seasoned, well-trained operatives.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Federal agents detained a man in a suburb of Boston,Massachusetts, Thursday morning, after executing search warrants connected to the failed bomb plot in New York's Times Square.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

These searches are the product of evidence that has been gathered in the investigation since the attempted Times Square bombing and do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or active plot against the United States."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14