Times Square bomber 'plotted second attack'

The man who planted a car bomb in New York’s Times Square boasted that he thought it would kill at least 40 people and he planned to detonate a second bomb two weeks later, US prosecutors said.

The man who planted a car bomb in New York’s Times Square boasted that he thought it would kill at least 40 people and he planned to detonate a second bomb two weeks later, US prosecutors said.

They quoted the former financial analyst in a video where he said he had hoped “to join my brothers in jihad” ever since the September 11 2001 attacks.

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