FBI: Times Square Bomber "Could Have Killed Thousands"

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday July 20, 2010

The New York Post reports on an FBI simulation which examined the damage the Times Square bomber could have caused:

Thankfully, it didn't go off as planned.

A secret FBI test of a correctly made version of the Times Square bomb revealed that it "would have killed thousands of people" if it had been made to explode as terrorists had intended, law-enforcement sources told The Post yesterday.

Had he built the Times Square device the way he had originally intended to, terrorist Faisal Shahzad, would have turned his SUV and nearby vehicles into a fatal spray of razor-sharp fragments and transformed building windows into glass guillotines hurtling to the streets, cutting down hundreds of people walking by.

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