‘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.

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.