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Detectives. it was a very hot evening. they suited up in very oppressive gear which i'm sure everyone saw, and they worked tirelessly through that evening, all through the next day. so if you look at the components, the timer, the gasoline cans, the m-88s, the propane tank, the gun box, put all of that together that lethal assembly really made a very big hurt locker. and it wasn't until all of the parts of the bomb were taken down that we were able to tow that vehicle to a forensic garage. now, by my calculation, from the time faisal shahzad drove into and across broadway and parked that vehic...

Several arrests in connection with the case. >> reporter: faisal shahzad, a pakistani sworn in as a u.s. citizen just one year ago faces charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. the explosives-laden suv left in the heart of manhattan. >> if you looked at the components, the timer, the gasoline cans, the -- the m-88s, the propane tank, the gun box, put all of that together, that lethal assembly really made a very big hurt locker. >> reporter: shahzad was identified as a suspect sunday night after investigators determined he had recently bought the suv in which they fou...

This is a little more sophisticated but not much. depending on how he tried to use it. if they were counting on this m-88 to blow up between the gas cans, for that to fire off an explosion which would then create enough heat to light the propane tanks, i think the odds of that are not good. likewise the m-88 back by the propane tanks, i don't see any reason to believe that an explosive like that would penetrate tanks like that. however, and this is the important part, if the idea was that these propane tanks were supposed to be open filling the car with propane and then these things went off, ...

Following up on right now. >> tell me about this crazy bomb equipment. go through what was in there in the vehicle that might have worked or maybe never could have worked. what do you make of this -- run through what was in there. >> i think bottom line up front, it wasn't going to work. you had several things -- you had a gas -- you had gasoline cans. you had propane canisters. you had fire crackers, m-88s, and you had a large gun box filled with nonexplosive fertilizer. and a rude goldberg-like approach to get it to light off. the closest thing this comes to is what happened in london in 200...

Securities of new york. came right into times square with propane, with gas, with fertilizer that maybe we know now was inert, but perhaps wasn't known to this bomber and all this kind of m-88s and was actually detonated, in the bomber's mind. was allowed to get so close to the main center of this that i think that new york had a dry run here, don. and they're going to have to look and see what the procedures are, what could have prevented this. certainly, all due respect to the t-shirt vendors, to the police who did everything once they noticed that car, but i think the big question for new y...