Bomb Blast in Times Square..

[Largest of Als]

NEW YORK — The Homeland Security department said there was no sign of an "imminent threat" to the United States in the blast that tore through an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday morning, according to Reuters.

But the agency also announced Thursday that the FBI would be joining the probe into what caused the explosion.

The blast occurred about 3:45 a.m. when an explosive device went off, causing minor damage to the recruiting station in Times Square -- which is heavily populated with New York City tourists. Hotel guests were shaken by the force in their rooms high above the scene.

Police blocked off the area to investigate the explosion, which shattered the station's glass entryway. No one was injured.

"If it is something that's directed toward American troops than it's something that's taken very seriously and is pretty unfortunate," said Army Capt. Charlie Jaquillard, who is the commander of Army recruiting in Manhattan.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335435,00.html

It worries me that they seem to be surprisingly calm about it all.... I'd have thought this'd have been all over the news by now.. NY in lockdown.. roving gangs rounding up anyone with a beard and dark skin...


Al

[LesMTS]

I like how they say the "blast tore through an empty military recruiting station" when, in actual fact, it smashed a single window.

[Largest of Als]

One of the guys in work just said "Do you think it's PETA, in revenge for the guy throwing the puppy?"


Could be...


Al

[LesMTS]

Originally Posted by Largest of Als

One of the guys in work just said "Do you think it's PETA, in revenge for the guy throwing the puppy?"


Could be...


Al

It's a laughably pathetic enough attack for this theory to be credible.

[The Continental]

Musta been on a TimesSquare

[kimzor]

PHEW!

I thought you meant the pub in town.

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by Largest of Als

It worries me that they seem to be surprisingly calm about it all.... I'd have thought this'd have been all over the news by now.. NY in lockdown.. roving gangs rounding up anyone with a beard and dark skin...

I wouldn't worry. Maybe it demonstrates that America is getting fed up of the psuedo-war on terror.

[XMachina]

Originally Posted by Hammer

I wouldn't worry. Maybe it demonstrates that America is getting fed up of the psuedo-war on terror.

If you take 11/9/01 as it's start date then WWII was done and dusted in less time.

[Exit_W0unds]

Just heard about this on the Spar radio when I was in the shop. They seemed to be hardly worried about it at all.

[PapaZeb]

It's on none of the news networks at all here (well, in between things about property laws on Fox News and the debate on CNN it gets a quiet mention)...heck, the most viewed article on CNN.com when this thread got posted was some guy in NYC banning Danny Boy on St Patrick's Day from his bar.

[Mr_P]

Its honestly just as well Terrorists are pretty rubbish at what they do.
Lets face it, the majority of attacks are pretty pathetic compared to how devastating they could be. (Glasgow last year, for example? They could have done as much damage with a bucky bottle of petrol and a lighter!)

But yeah, if anything makes me think its all just a big conspiracy for the government to earn more power: its the crapness of terrorists.

[Stew]

What more proof could you need that the anti-war zealots are just like the terrorists?