Another update from the New York Post:
By ED ROBINSON and LARRY CELONA
September 4, 2007 — “A blast believed to have been caused by a pipe bomb rocked a Chelsea street early this morning, police sources and witnesses said.
Nobody was injured.
“It was just a very loud boom, like a lightning storm,” said John Antolik, who works at a hotel near the scene of the 1:15 a.m. blast on 29th Street between 7th and 8th avenues.
“It was so loud, you could hear it from a block away.”
The device that caused the explosion had been left near a red van, in front of an Italian restaurant, police and witnesses said.
The blast sent huge clouds of smoke billowing into the air
“There was a big white cloud. It must have gone to the top of the building, about three or four stories,” Antolik said, adding there were few people on the street at the time.”
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/09042007/news/regionalnews/pipe_bomb_blast_rocks_chelsea.htm
” Another update “
Thanks —
Doesn’t sound too Al Qaeda-ish, does it??
(Of course, one of the postulated alternatives to the “One Big Blast” strategy is a series of coordinated smaller explosives like the London Tube bombings...)