[Sacajaweau]

Would that device have wires sticking out of it? or a clock attached to it? This was no accident.

[CindyDawg]

Maybe he was just a disturbed individual or...Maybe a timer was set for 12 noon and automatically changed to 1pm and it didn't go off so he was in the bathroom "working" on it. I wonder if this guy was on the subway an hour earlier. Scary thought. )Is that right? I get the time changes mixed up. I was an hour late for church this morning.)

[ChessExpert]

Would that device have wires sticking out of it? or a clock attached to it? This was no accident.

That seems to be the likeliest interpretation of "device."

If I was a CNN editor and wanted to sanitize these reports further, I'd keep pushing the "wall of flame" quote from an anonymous source and drop all quotes about devices:

"It appears there was a device, but we don't know whether the person brought it in with him, or it he was an innocent party, or if he was a suicide, we just don't know," Staff Sergeant Don Cole said of the device inside the restaurant.

"It's not something that just blew up by itself, it was some device."