http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/times_square_car_smoke_scare_TyBE8K6vF3PzScpS9xG0XP
Evidently, the terrorists must have wired the car bomb wrong. Luckily, the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of innocents were saved. Was this a failure of the Federal Government and the NYC police department? We all know that they will try again and again, learn from their mistakes, and ultimately succeed.
I don't know if it was wired wrong. From what I remember hearing, there was about 100 pounds of "non-explosive" fertilzer that was found in the car. No wonder Bloomberg described the people behind this as "amateurs."
As the smoke came out, so the wiring may be correct.
But fortunately the fertilizer supplier could have been an arab, who must have known the camel dung as the only fertilizer on the earth.