We should really thank Allah (SWT) that the would be times square NYC bomber was an idiot. The FBI has conducted a test with exatly same bomb/vehicle the same vehicle and tried to determine what would have been its effect…it would have been bigger than the Oklahoma City car bombing that killed 168 people (for those of u from US prob remember that)
I shudder to think what would have been the US response if the bomb had actually gone off in NYC. Times Squre is jam packed with tourist from all over the world during the weekend and many people of all different nationality would have been killed or injured..the outcry would have been global!
There is another thread in this forum that accuses ISI to be in bed with the taliban and actually planning some of the terrorism in Afghanistan.
Also ISI has been openly accused by india for planning mumbai 26/11 attack after they had questioned the pakistani-american involved in USA. The US goverment was angry that india had leaked the investigation..but US never denied it!!!
wtf is going on. I am getting more and more hopless 
NEW YORK: Investigators detonated a working replica of the car bomb used in the failed Times Square terror attack, creating a large explosion that destroyed other vehicles and scattered flaming debris, law enforcement officials said.
The test in central Pennsylvania showed that the homemade bomb, had it been constructed and detonated properly, would have killed or wounded an untold number of pedestrians and damaged buildings along the block where the car was abandoned by Faisal Shahzad on May 1, the officials said.
“It would have been extremely deadly,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said when asked about the test after an event at a Washington think tank.
Kelly didn’t go into specifics about the FBI test. But two other officials told The Associated Press that it was conducted late last month in a remote area 30 miles (48 kilometers) outside of State College, Pennsylvania, and that a video of it was played for a gathering of authorities earlier this week.
The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the test. The FBI’s New York office declined to comment.
The test was first reported Tuesday in the New York Post, which quoted an unnamed source saying that the results suggested the bomb could have been more deadly than the 1995 Oklahoma City car bombing that killed 168 people.
One of the officials who spoke to the AP said that was an exaggeration, because the Oklahoma City bomb - also made of fertilizer - was roughly 10 times larger than the one left in Times Square.
Calling himself a “Muslim soldier,” Shahzad pleaded guilty June 21. During his plea hearing, the 30-year-old traced his plot to a 2009 trip to Pakistan, where he said he received explosives training and funding from the Pakistani Taliban for his one-man scheme.
He returned to the United States and loaded a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder with a fertilizer-fueled bomb packed in a gun cabinet, a set of propane tanks and gas canisters rigged with fireworks that he hoped would cause a chain-reaction explosion.
After parking the vehicle on a street near Broadway theaters and hotels, Shahzad said he lit a fuse that he expected would detonate the bomb within five minutes as he walked away. Instead, authorities say the bomb malfunctioned, emitting smoke that attracted the attention of a street vendor, who notified police.
Federal agents arrested Shahzad two days later as he attempted to flee the country on a Dubai-bound jetliner.
New York Police Department bomb experts later determined Shahzad had used a type of fertilizer that wasn’t volatile enough to explode.
For the test, the officials said the investigators also used a Pathfinder, but rigged it with the higher grade fertilizer and more sophisticated components. – AP