[neverdem]

600,000 to 750,000? JMJ! How stupid can we be? We can take small comfort that a significant number of them were recruited by Muslim chaplains while they were in prison.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

And the libs were giving Kelly hell last year for monitoring Islamo students and gee whiz, look who bombs Boston. Same with Peter King who wanted Mosques checked out, they gave him hell as well, calling him all the usual names...Islamophobia blah blah.

[Travis McGee]

[BlueStateRightist]

But perhaps this article reflects typical NYC arrogance/chauvinism. Only time will tell if their defenses are penetrable. Methinks half a million Muslims is a force that will be hard to contain.

[Yo-Yo]

The NYPD might have stopped the Tsarnaev brothers before they started.

Why? Did they attempt to buy a Big Gulp?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Stop n’ Frisk works. Is that a pressure cooker in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

[varyouga]

BS

The last Times Square attempt was a guy parking a FRICKIN SUV in the square and running off. Even though you aren't even allowed to stop in the square, the SUV packed with explosives WAS NEVER NOTICED BY POLICE. A street vendor called a cop over when he saw smoke and heard firecrackers. It took a loooong time to evacuate people and actually get a bomb squad on scene. The only reason it didn't blow in the middle of the crowd is because it was a dud.

A bomber leaving a pipe bomb or 5 all over the square would never be caught in time. They'd just drop a few bombs disguised as trash, walk away and BOOM. With the subways all over the square, they'll be in and out within 15 minutes.

Most terrorist attacks have been foiled by the stupidity of the terrorists themselves, not by police/TSA/etc.

There's not much we can do about crazy people planting explosives besides punishing them after the fact. Banning things and reducing freedom for everyone will NOT make us safer from crazies.

[Iron Munro]

Might have?

Or might not have.

[T-Bird45]

FTA: New York cops almost surely would have monitored Tsarnaev, for example, IF they had known that Russia had warned the FBI in 2011 that he was an Islamic radical, that he was potentially dangerous, and that he had spent six months in Dagestan last year.

And there's the big IF, as I pointed out in a comment on FR yesterday, that bureaucratic organizations do not naturally share information because of the power that springs from that information. The FBI is nothing if not a fully fledged bureaucratic organization of the first order.