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TIMES SQ. SUBWAY BLAST HURTS COP
The New York Post ^ | 07/20/2004 | The New York Post

Posted on 07/19/2004 11:58:28 PM PDT by GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY

A small pipe bomb packed with gunpowder and BBs exploded in a subway station last night, injuring a transit cop and throwing several blocks near Times Square into chaos.

A police spokesman insisted that authorities do not believe that the incident was terrorism — but federal officials, including the Secret Service and the Joint Terrorism Task Force are investigating, it was learned.

The officer, whose name was withheld, was standing near a staircase leading to the A, C and E trains at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue at around 8 p.m., when he saw a burning knapsack, police said.

He quickly pushed two commuters to safety, but as he was calling for assistance, the bag exploded, cops said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: backpack; bomb; bombing; convention; dryrun; homelandsecurity; isolatedincident; isolatedincidents; knapsack; newyork; pipebomb; pipebombs; security; subway; subwayplot; subwayplots; test; testrun; timessquare; trialrun
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To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
A police spokesman insisted that authorities do not believe that the incident was terrorism

So we can all go back to what we were doing, knowing that anyone in the subway who was terrified when the explosion occurred was simply overreacting.

The good news is that, as tight as the job market might be, anyone can apparently get a job as a "police spokesman" or an "authority".

Sheesh, whata maroon.

41 posted on 07/20/2004 6:35:22 AM PDT by LTCJ (Gridlock '05 - the Lesser of Three Evils.)
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To: Wordsmith

Just stay away from the edge of the tracks and if you smell anyone just move.


42 posted on 07/20/2004 6:36:30 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: Flint
A pipe bomb in a subway station is terrorism. You don't have to have a rag tied around your head and smell like a camel to qualify as a terrorist.

I respectfully disagree. While this is certainly a crime, terrorism is more than a simple crime. Terrorism involves a political agenda with an aim to intimidate/cow/unnerve a society.

Until we know the who & why of this particular act, we can not conclude it was an act of terrorism.

43 posted on 07/20/2004 6:40:02 AM PDT by Teplukin
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To: Teplukin

Nor can we exclude it, as the police are apparently doing.


44 posted on 07/20/2004 7:27:18 AM PDT by SpinyNorman (Al Queda, Al Jazeera, Al Gore, Al Franken: the four horsemen of the Apocalypse)
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To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY

From the attached ABC article:

"But now police are now investigating whether the transit cop who was hurt in the incident was somehow involved in causing it in the first place."

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_072004_timessquareexplosion.html

Also note that they have not released his name yet.


45 posted on 07/20/2004 7:36:37 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
A police spokesman insisted that authorities do not believe that the incident was terrorism...

Excuse me, but burning bags full of exploding pipe bombs are EXACTLY what terrorism is! Gotta be a fricken DemocRat!

46 posted on 07/20/2004 7:39:35 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_072004_timessquareexplosion.html

" With the Republican National Convention just a few weeks away, the NYPD is on high alert. They pulled out all of the stops last night to check out the blast, which they are blaming on fireworks discovered in a bag. But now police are now investigating whether the transit cop who was hurt in the incident was somehow involved in causing it in the first place."

"Investigators say the device contained gunpowder and b-b's."

Wonder why they won't release his name. Wanna bet it's something like Ali or Muhammad or Hassan?


47 posted on 07/20/2004 7:49:42 AM PDT by adam_az (Call your State Republican Party office and VOLUNTEER!!!!)
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To: Dont Mention the War

Where you gonna find a twerpy white kid from Hempstead?


48 posted on 07/20/2004 7:53:56 AM PDT by wtc911 (moderate islam is the swamp where evil festers)
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To: OldFriend

They should move the Republican Convention to someplace like North Dakota or Idaho. Far away from all the leftist controlled cities.


49 posted on 07/20/2004 8:02:10 AM PDT by Chewbacca (Michael Moore is a filthy piece of distended rectum.)
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To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
A police spokesman insisted that authorities do not believe that the incident was terrorism

What in the hell was it, then?

50 posted on 07/20/2004 8:02:26 AM PDT by Sloth (We have to support RINOs like Specter; their states are too liberal to elect someone like Santorum.)
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To: adam_az

Maybe he is like the nurse who injects her patients with drugs to make them ill so she can be the "hero".


51 posted on 07/20/2004 8:04:05 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY

When was the last time a pipe bomb went off in a NY subway?

Of course this was a dry run. Let's be realistic here.


52 posted on 07/20/2004 8:11:37 AM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: Mo1
The Whackos from the left?

Leftists, jihadis .... it's difficult to discern a measurable difference any more.

53 posted on 07/20/2004 8:45:33 AM PDT by Freebird Forever
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To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
So this was why my bus had to go up Sixth Avenue instead of Eighth. I heard the driver get the All Clear at about 9:45 or 10 p.m.

Could this have been someone trying to object to the rule that police can't search the commies' bags unless there is a reason to be suspicious? (Wheels turning overtime here, I admit.)

54 posted on 07/20/2004 9:22:11 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY

Dry run for terrorists?
Or for DemoRATs who will soon be protesting Bush?


55 posted on 07/20/2004 10:49:10 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: American in Israel
Welcome to the Jihad. Not a dry run, a bomb packed with schrapnel in a subway. When they catch him, execute him for attempted Mass Murder.

Although I agree, it won't happen in the PoliticallyCorrectStatesofAmerica in 2004. Deportation would be the most we could expect if it is an islamonazi.

56 posted on 07/20/2004 11:16:43 AM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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To: xm177e2
"dry run"

What of the possibility that a few terror guys with videocams recorded the NYPD & FDNY response protocols to this type of incident. It would make the real thing more effective if they had response procedures to plan against.

57 posted on 07/20/2004 12:58:21 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (" You have never tasted freedom my friend, else you would know, it is purchased not with gold, but w)
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To: adam_az
Wonder why they won't release his name. Wanna bet it's something like Ali or Muhammad or Hassan?

Maybe. It could also be that they don't want to create the 2004 version of Richard Jewell.

58 posted on 07/20/2004 1:30:01 PM PDT by Denver Ditdat (Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now, but we preferred it when he belonged to us.)
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Something is strange here. The article says it happened at 8pm. but Times Square was full of police cars with flashers going around 6:30 as I was walking back to Penn Station.

Not sure what to make of it, unless the Post has is mistaken about the time.


59 posted on 07/20/2004 2:05:15 PM PDT by getsoutalive
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