It’s 4 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep

But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing.
Something’s happening in Times Square:

New York City police officers and firefighters cordoned off much of Times Square after a small explosion — apparently set off by a manmade device — damaged the front of the Armed Forces Recruiting Center on the traffic island bounded by 43rd and 44th Streets, Seventh Avenue and Broadway shortly after 4 a.m., officials said. No one was injured, and after a temporary interruption, subway service was restored.

Most traffic around Times Square was allowed to pass by 6:45 a.m., after vehicles had been diverted for about two hours. City officials confirmed that police had initially blocked off the area as a precaution to ensure that there was no secondary device or other threat; the officials emphasized that they did not believe anyone was in danger.

Police officers at the scene said the explosion blew a hole through the front door of the recruiting center, which is at the northern end of the structure.

In Washington, a spokeswoman for the United States Department of Homeland Security said it was monitoring and investigating the explosion, Reuters reported. Asked if there was a link to terrorism, the spokeswoman, Laura Keehner, said, “At this time we’re still investigating.”

If there was a “link to terrorism,” the Recruiting Center wouldn’t be there anymore (it was probably some lone--and lonely--white whack job), but that won’t stop the bedwetters from turning this into the scariest Islamofascist assault on America since the Al-Qaeda steam pipe attack of ‘07 (they are masters of rust!). Sigh.  Expect Times Square to have more cameras installed per square foot than the Big Brother house by the end of the year.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/06/08 at 07:00 AM • Permalink