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Small explosion hits New York's Times Square
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| Contributor | Bob |
| Last Edited | Bob Mar 06, 2008 02:12pm |
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| Media | News Service - Reuters |
| News Date | Thursday, March 6, 2008 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A small explosion damaged a U.S. military recruiting station but caused no injuries in New York's Times Square before dawn on Thursday, triggering a Pentagon alert for other stations across the country.
"We're treating it as if it were an incident of vandalism," Army spokesman Paul Boyce said at the Pentagon.
Times Square -- the normally bustling "Crossroads of the World" with shops, restaurants, hotels, theaters and office towers -- was largely empty when the crude bomb went off at around 3:45 a.m. (0845 GMT).
Low-grade explosives packed in an ammunition box cracked the recruiting station's thick glass door and twisted its metal framing, police said. The blast also shattered a window encasing the classic poster of Uncle Sam saying "I Want You." |
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