downwitdaleft is nuts. that is all.
Are going to assume the government tends to agree with me. They paid my cousin $100 for his clothes because he was by the explosion. There is no reason not to believe that the terrorists had something to do this.
So, the fact that NYC paid your cousin $100 for his possibly asbestos-contaminated clothes leads you to the conclusion that this might have been a terrorist dry run...
Sounds more like a typical government conspiracy to me. Blow up the Grand Central Station and give everyone around the station at the time of the explosion money to remain silent about the strange incident. DWDL could be implying that NYC is secretly cooperating with terrorists, which would certainly go along with his hysterical anti-liberal diatribes. He might have merely invented this "cousin" who had very conveniently been around when the explosion happened in a pathetic attempt to justify his "omg terrorism~!!1!1" paranoia. Or maybe this "cousin" of his is actually an Islamic terrorist who assisted in the bombing scheme; the government obviously needed to pay him to keep quiet, which it apparently did. The possibilities are endless!