Former FBI agent says Manhattan IED was similar to the devices used in Boston Marathon bombings – and COULD be the work of an ISIS fanatic
At least 29 people in New York have been injured following a Saturday explosion in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood
NYPD officers recovered from the area a pressure cooker that looks shockingly similar to the ones used in the 2013 Boston Marathon attacks
One expert said the devices are popular with ISIS sympathizers
Pressure cooker bombs are a popular method for radicalized ISIS followers to strike lone-wolf attacks, as device is made with household items
DailyMail.com
18 September 2016
The explosion that injured at least 29 people in Manhattan has brought to mind eerie reminders of the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks of 2013.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has said the blast that ripped the affluent Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday night was ‘an intentional act’ — but has denied any links to terrorism.
Yet explosives experts have pointed out similarities with the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013 — specifically the type of device used, pressure cookers.
‘It reminds me of the Boston bombing — similar thing happened,’ former FBI agent Manny Gomez told CBS 2.
‘It definitely seems like an improvised device that ISIS is putting out in their websites and how to make a bomb in your kitchen type of situation — some wires, putting nails in it, screws in it…gasoline and you have a bomb.
Police have not said what exactly was used to cause the blast at 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue, which is believed to have been set up inside a Dumpster.
But a second device removed by NYPD officers was as a pressure cooker — different color wires sticking out of it, a cell phone attached at the end.
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