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Article: What didn't happen in a busy New York subway. (Palestinian bombing attack thwarted by New York City police)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- August 11, 1997
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The night after Israel's marketplace bombing, a man stepped onto a Brooklyn street and waved frantically at a police car. "Bomba!" he screamed. "Bomba!" The driver stopped and took him to a precinct station, where an interpreter translated his message. His roommates, he said, were about to stage a Jerusalem-style attack in New York.
An hour before dawn, police swept into the man's darkened apartment. There they encountered two young men from the Middle East and shot and wounded both of them, police said, when it appeared that one was trying to set off a pipe bomb.
Police reported finding five pipes configured into two bombs. Neither had a timer or a ...