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NEW YORK — Investigators secretly detonated a working replica of the car bomb used in the failed Times Square terrorist attack, creating a large explosion that destroyed other vehicles and scattered flaming debris, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
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 Tuesday.
