Unexploded Car Bomb Found in Manhattan

Yikes.  You know, it's a really good thing that so many would-be terrorists are incompetant. Maybe they went to the Squeaky Fromme school of political activism?

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'We Avoided What Could Have Been a Very Deadly Event'



Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, authorities said Sunday.


Thousands of tourists were cleared from the streets for 10 hours after two vendors alerted police to the suspicious vehicle, which contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. . .

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