Times Square Bomb 'Would Have Killed Thousands,' FBI Test Shows

A clandestine FBI test of a properly made version of the Times Square bomb revealed that it "would have killed thousands of people" if it have been made to explode as terrorists had intended, police force sources told The New York Post.

Have he built the Times four-sided figure device the way he had at first future to, terrorist Faisal Shahzad, would have twisted his SUV and nearby vehicles into a fatal spray of razor-sharp fragments and transformed building windows into glass guillotines hurtling to the streets, cutting down hundreds of people walking by.

The consequences were exposed after feds composed the type of bomb Shahzad set out to make -- with the exact mechanism he had initially intended to use -- and detonated it in Pennsylvania last month.

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