nypd. sheriff you got your bomb squad guys here. what are your assessments of what the device consisted of. you have to look and hear people saying it s amateurs. when you have that type of explosives and you are in an area like this it s no longer an amateur a bomb is made to explode and the devastatidevast. the components of detonation. guys, how are you doing? thanks for coming. i want to say mutual friend bernie kerik former commissioner is watching right now. did you ever hear of any one using firecrackers, m 88 s or m 80s to detonate something bigger? no, i haven t heard of that before. tr trying to compromise that container. wouldn t it have detonated
he has the see it, say it program. the vendor who identified the problem mentioned it. you showed it early. citizens taking responsibility, notifying police officers so they can respond, it s the success here. it s the lesson we ought to take. bomber incompetent? absolutely. the only way to identify and disrupt these attacks is by the community based efforts. bomber incompetent, to stick on that term, means bomber who left more evidence. sure. it would be one thing if, let s say the fertilizer was properly treated with fuel oil, then you still need a detonator to set it off. an m-88 is not significant. if they used the traditional, al qaeda, explosive of choice, tapt. it s found in traces of the
nypd. sheriff you got your bomb squad guys here. what are your assessments of what the device consisted of. you have to look and hear people saying it s amateurs. when you have that type of explosives and you are in an area like this it s no longer an amateur a bomb is made to explode and the devastatidevast. the components of detonation. guys, how are you doing? thanks for coming. i want to say mutual friend bernie kerik former commissioner is watching right now. did you ever hear of any one using firecrackers, m 88 s or m 80s to detonate something bigger? no, i haven t heard of that before. tr trying to compromise that container. wouldn t it have detonated
one was going to blow up three propane tanks. and the other was going to blow up cans of gasoline, some m-88 s and some nonexplosive fertili r fertilizer. thank goodness this guy didn t have the same information that tim mcveigh had as far as what kind of fertilizer to buy. he did not buy the ammonium nitrate that could have caused a humongous explosion, not that this would not have killed people. it would have including all the pedestrians walking up and down 45th street in times square. but luckily, first of all, luckily the vietnam vet who was working nearby the vendor that saw the car smoking, luckily for him is he going to be on the show coming up? he was booked yesterday. yeah, he ll be on. the t-shirt salesman, the veteran and dwayne johnson with flashers on parked in an odd place. he pulled over at 6:28. within two minutes these two guys walked over and see them smoking and one of them heard
department of environmental protection to further identify the bagged material. next to the locker in the rear cargo area of the pathfinder were three propane tanks weighing between 15 and 17 pounds. they are the kind used in backyard bbq s, one of them had m-80 fireworks attached to its side. some of which detonated inside the vehicle. an m-88 is legal in some states, including pennsylvania. on the back seat of the vehicle were two full five-gallon red plastic gasoline containers. between them was a 16-ounce can filled with between 20 and 30 m-88 devices. two clocks on the back seat floor of the vehicle were connected by wires to that can. and possibly to the gun locker as well. in light of the lethal potential