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A Delay Action Bomb Explodes
A 500 pound bomb comes through the seventh floor windows and crashes through two more floors. The whole building shakes. It's enveloped in smoke. We have extraordinary eye witness accounts of this from multiple people were there, just coming on for the evening shift. And that the sound and the devastation was so immense, everyone assumed that the damage and the worst was over. In fact, it wasn't, because this was actually a delayed action bomb.
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