‘Muslim soldier’ jailed for Times Square bomb plot

THE scene in a remote spot in Pennsylvania was exactly what authorities say failed bomber Faisal Shahzad had wanted on a busy evening in Times Square on May 1.

‘Muslim soldier’ jailed for Times Square bomb plot

An improvised car bomb with 250 pounds of ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel, three 25-pound propane tanks and two five-gallon gasoline canisters blew up, causing a giant fireball.

It overturned and shredded four other cars parked nearby in a field, obliterated about a dozen dummies posed as pedestrians and shot fiery debris hundreds of feet in all directions.

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