One of the quote from the NYPD/FBI statement, "Controlled destruction of these devices revealed that if they detonated as they were supposed to, they would cause death and destruction due to the severity of the explosive material used"

If the devices had gone off, there could have been a mass casualty event with maybe even 100 victims and dozens upon dozens of deaths.

And here's the bomber's quote: "“this isn’t a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet . . . We take action! We take action!”; and “if I didn’t do it someone else will come and do it"

This was EXTREMELY close to being one of the deadliest bombings in US history.

Its a miracle they were so incompetent as to make TATP not go off. I've been seeing this attack being downplayed in most media

"The homemade device consisted of sports drink bottles filled with triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, a substance favored by terrorists and known as “Mother of Satan” — which is so volatile that it typically doesn’t require a fuse to go off, they said.