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To: All; Jet Jaguar

New url:

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

“Explosion Hits Military Recruiting Station at New York’s Times Square”
Thursday, March 06, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “DEVELOPING STORY — An explosion has been reported in New York’s Times Square. It happened on 43rd and 8th at the military recruiting station at approximately 3:45 a.m.

A witness decribed the explosion as, “loud enough that people at the marriott marquis heard it and saw a puff of smoke.”

All traffic in the area has been diverted. Police have closed 46th to 42nd between 6th and 8th streets.”


29 posted on 03/06/2008 2:23:35 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/06/times.square/index.html

updated 1 minute ago

“Small blast halts Times Square
subways”
(CNN) —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Police and fire squads were in the area around West 43rd Street. They gathered outside a military recruiting station with a large hole in the front window, the AP reported.

Subway service has been stopped to Times Square. “


33 posted on 03/06/2008 2:29:20 AM PST by Cindy
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Small detail UDPATE:

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

“Explosion Hits Military Recruiting Station at New York’s Times Square”
Thursday, March 06, 2008

DEVELOPING STORY —

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Local television stations report at the time of the explosion, a man was seen throwing an object at the building and leaving the scene on a bicycle.”


55 posted on 03/06/2008 3:28:36 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Perhaps an M80? Those were big enough to blow a trash can apart. Me and the hoodlum friends liked playing with them when I was 15. If so, they are powerful enough to blow off a limb or if near your head, kill you.


192 posted on 03/06/2008 8:52:01 AM PST by quant5
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To: Cindy

What a ridiculously inaccurate report.


213 posted on 03/06/2008 9:48:40 AM PST by firebrand
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