yourself from them? you can t. you can t. larry: somebody is going to set up a car bomb tomorrow, set it off. place like new york city what do you do inspect every car? it is absolutely impossible. there are sniffers wire, look for nitrates, you can profile car bombers but ultimately, you cannot stop them. larry: what did this guy do, harry? left a bomb and just ran from the car? in the middle of traffic? what did he do? it is a mystery. you have a car that wasn t even parked, simply vacated in the middle of broadway and larry: raise a little suspicion. with the flashers on, i might add. down the street he ran. i can t wait to find out end story on what really initiated that move. larry: what do you think it was intended to do had it gone off, bob? i think this is an amateur that got on the internet. an experienced bomb make wore have had some sort of initiator that would have worked that set this thing off. experts have told me if the propane tanks had gone off, th
thank you, deborah feyerick on the scene in new york. go to harrisburg, pennsylvania. tom ridge, he served as secretary of homeland security under george w. bush, and former pennsylvania former governor of pennsylvania and decorated marine what is your reaction to this story, tom? all right. tom is not hearing me. one of those nights, folks, mother told me about this. we will get back with tom. let s check in right here in l.a. with harry humphries, counterterrorism expert and former navy s.e.a.l., president of global studies group and bob bayer, former cia officer and host of the channel 4 documentary car bomb and can a a columnist for time.com. harry, what is your take? well, one of two scenarios are possible. obviously it is extremely amateurish. it was not, in fact, a bomb. it was more of an incineration device. larry: not sophisticated?
an experienced bomb make wore have had some sort of initiator that would have worked that set this thing off. experts have told me if the propane tanks had gone off, the kill radius would have been 30 to 50 feet. there would have been a lot of dead people at times square. if it is amateurish, does it belie, harry, any international conspiracy involvement, in your opinion? i suspect no. i isn t it is local. again, my crystal ball is as good as anyone else s. the one thing that was not done that should have been done, in fact if he knew what was doing, is turn the gas valve on on the propane. then if you had an m-80 or m-88, whatever firecracker he had to innish yates, we have had the initiation of a combustible, that would have as bob said hurricane a radius of about 50 feet. larry: so they are effective, when done right? effective but they have divided baghdad, essentially, car bombs it started a civil war in iraq it slided lebanon in the 80s.
connecticut and elsewhere, also shifting overseas to see what the connections might be there, larry. thank you, deborah feyerick on the scene in new york. go to harrisburg, pennsylvania. tom ridge, he served as secretary of homeland security under george w. bush, and former pennsylvania former governor of pennsylvania and decorated marine what is your reaction to this story, tom? all right. tom is not hearing me. one of those nights, folks, mother told me about this. we will get back with tom. let s check in right here in l.a. with harry humphries, counterterrorism expert and former navy s.e.a.l., president of global studies group and bob bayer, former cia officer and host of the channel 4 documentary car bomb and can a a columnist for time.com. harry, what is your take? well, one of two scenarios are possible. obviously it is extremely amateurish. it was not, in fact, a bomb.
entire east coast? jack hanna is here with the effects on wildlife, next, on larry king live. larry: good evening, first, check in with deborah feyerick, our cnn correspondent in new york with the latest on the car bomb investigation. what s up to date, deborah? law enforcement sources telling us that, in fact, that nissan pathfinder that was loaded with propane tanks and fertilizer placed in times square that, in fact, that was purchased on craigslist about three weeks ago. the buyer, a man in his late 20s, early 30s, we ared to. the seller handed over the keys to the vehicle for $1800 in cash, no record of the transaction, no formal registration, done virtually anonymously with no way to trace it. we are being told that investigators now looking into possible e-mails as well as phone calls that the buyer and seller had with one another to determine exactly who this guy was who bought the vehicle. we are told that blogs are really saying that it is are the easiest way