used to join two points as the main housing for the bombs. right here is an elbow joint. this is what one bomb looked like. there were three of these. he made three bombs. this is the clock that would ignite it. he also planned to affix nails to them as additional shrapnel. pimental planned to make three bombs to begin with, as i say. he already drilled holes into the elbow joints to accommodate devices when emergency service police officers entered an apartment in washington heights at 3:30 yesterday afternoon. they were accompanied by the bomb squad and intelligence division detectives who took him into custody without incident. the nypd has been keeping track
inspire magazine. that is the al qaeda magazine, an online magazine, which tells interested people how to do these kind of things. we are told by the source that the man had acquired all material and was even going so far as to drill holes in a pipe bomb. he was going to use homemade ingredients in order to detonate this device and the device, had he put it together correctly, would, in fact, have worked. we re being told that he planned to target service men, men service men and women returning from iraq. he also intended on targeting police stations or post offices, and again, this is a pipe bomb and had it gone off, it could have killed close to a dozen people, especially if he attached things like nails. he was following instructions from this al qaeda-based magazine on this website. we are told that there was an informant who was monitoring this person, who was involved. this is the man who has been on the nypd radar for about two years, don, and they decided to go i