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.
It's more like justified paranoia. The brothers Tsarnaev wanted to hit Times Square. However we strike the rest of the country, it's not for nothing that we have a surfeit of major league sports teams in or about the city. IIRC, with respect to population, we're bigger than most states.
Be that as it may, I was born here. I only liked coming back for family and friends. It's a political and cultural nuthouse.
"Reporters for the Associated Press won a Pulitzer last year for a series of deeply flawed articles critical of the NYPD’s surveillance program, which the NYPD credits with helping thwart as many as 16 terrorist attacks on the city since 9/11."
Only time will tell if their defenses are penetrable. Methinks half a million Muslims is a force that will be hard to contain.
We'll see. Nothing is guaranteed. 9/11/01 was the second attack on the World Trade Center.
In 2010 Faisal Shahzad a Pakistani born and admitted Pakistan trained Jihadist, and also a new US citizen, placed a car bomb in TIMES SQUARE without any detection from the Govt.
Smoke came from the car and the police were called by civilians to investigate it.
Maybe security has imnproved in NY since then but I wouldn't boast about NYs ability to thwart bombers. - Tom