Chilling Toll Of Times Sq. 'Bomb' -- New York Post
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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My Comment: The New York Post story brings to light what everyone in law enforcement and the intelligence community have known for a very long time .... the use of large truck bombs as tools for terrorism have mainly stayed "over there", but it will only be a matter of time before such horrible weapons come to our own shores. With our cities made of glass, the FBI's demonstration of the Times Square bomb revealed the obvious, if extremists want to deliver a blow that will bring maximum casualties and destruction .... they will not need a nuclear or dirty bomb device to achieve it .... an Oklahoma style attack in a major U.S. city will accomplish the same thing.
On a side note, as a Canadian I have been following very closely a similar case in Canada. In 2006 a group of Islamic radicals were arrested when they were plotting to detonate truck bombs in Toronto's financial district. If successful, the glass that would have shattered would have resulted in thousands of casualties, and billions in damages. Known as the Toronto 18, their case brings to light the need to regulate and monitor products that can be used in the manufacturing of large bombs .... and the need to be extra vigilant when anomalous purchases of such products are done.
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