New York – The car bomb planted in Times Square came within a “millisecond” of causing “mass casualties” with a 30-foot high fireball, an explosives expert said.
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Kevin Barry, a retired NYPD bomb squad supervisor and the head of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, painted a gruesome picture of what might have been if the bomb had gone off Saturday night.
“Several hundred” could have been killed or maimed by a fireball exploding from the Nissan Pathfinder found loaded down with firecrackers, fertilizer, gasoline, propane and alarm clocks.
The propane-fueled flames wouldn’t have brought down any buildings and would have lasted only a few seconds, but with flames shooting as high as 30 feet, the toll on people nearby would have been devastating, Barry said.
The fireball would have caused horrific lung damage and fried the hair and faces of anyone within a 50-yard radius.
“It could burn the throat and then cause death. It’s a difficult thing to deal with,” Barry said.
“We came within a millisecond,” added Barry, who put in 35 years with the NYPD, the last 20 years on the bomb squad. “Because had that detonator functioned correctly, we would have had a huge explosion.”
Luckily, Barry said, the crude car bomb’s homemade detonator malfunctioned.
“It may not have been sophisticated,” Barry said of the bomb. “[But] it worked. It didn’t function as he designed it to. The main charge did not go off. That was a critical mistake for him.
B”H!!!
Interesting to note, while the NYPD were watching over our meduros (bonfires) on Lag Ba’Omer, they were privileged to stop a fireball from harming the people of their city. Of course we don’t really know why, what, when, things happen, we can only watch, wonder and give thanks.
I think this is G-D way of knocking idly on the Gov doors,YOU HAVE BIGGER FISH TO FRY LEAVE SHOLOM RUBASHKIN ALONE,
And keep my people safe by ridding my world from the real TERRORISTS
Yishtabach Shemo Laad!!!
But they will keep trying. We really must stop peopple from traveling to and from Pakistan, Dubai Yenem etc. Plus the millions here in the USA. It is like yene machla. I dont want to sound like a paranoid freak but this is getting out of hand and it it occurring more and more frequently. These behemas are emboldened by Obams weaknessses. We hv known for a long time that the arabs take advantage of weakness and only respect strenght. And we are weak and gettig weaker. Alienating ourselves from our friends bending over backwards (and frontwards in the case of Obama) to show our enemies we love them and embrace them – we hav apways been a moslem nation said Obama. Mea cupla worldwide is the new USA motto. Obama agrees that a person cant make too much money. it isnt fair. It isnt right. stop when u hv enough. Capitalism is bad. Wanting to succeed is bad – it is taking advantage of the down trodden. We white ppl are an ever increasing minority in the country. And when we are reall really a minority they will trample on us. And thre will be no affirmative action. And there will be no going back.
There’s a new documentary called “The Third Jihad” directed by a Muslim against radical Islam, every american citizen should watch it!
rabot machshavot belev ish, va’atzat Hashem hee takum!
We should not allow any Muslims in our country.
At the same time the devil was creating a fire of evil, Yidden across New York and the globe were celebrating with the holy fire of Rabbee Shimon, stimulating much merit in heaven.. Zy’u!
The Gemara states “Kdai Rabbi Shimon Lismoch Alav”. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai can be relied upon to intercede on our behalf on this day.