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2 NAILED IN HERALD SQ. SUBWAY BLAST PLOT
New York Post ^ | 08/28/04 | ? and Patrick Gallahue

Posted on 08/28/2004 12:05:51 AM PDT by conservative in nyc

2 NAILED IN HERALD SQ. SUBWAY BLAST PLOT


August 28, 2004 -- The convention will be held at Madison Square Garden, located over Penn Station and a block west of the Herald Square subway station. The busy station serves hundreds of thousands of daily riders on the B, D, F, V, N, Q, R and W lines.

Sources said the threat was taken so seriously by officials that it was mentioned this week in a Department of Homeland Security memo.

The plot unraveled when the NYPD's Intelligence Division began conducting surveillance earlier this year on a group of Muslim men in Brooklyn.

One of the men arrested yesterday had been thrown out of the group, sources said.

"Whether this is al Qaeda or an unstable lone wolf doesn't make much of a difference as to the danger," said a law enforcement official.

The men, described as being in their 20s, don't appear to be connected with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, sources said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bombplot; dhs; foiled; heraldsquare; jihadinamerica; nyc; nypd; rnc; subways
The New York Post's story on the Herald Square bomb plot. Today's front page of the New York Post:

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1 posted on 08/28/2004 12:05:52 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: conservative in nyc

Thankyou for the post, c in nyc.


2 posted on 08/28/2004 12:13:21 AM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING (He is faithful!)
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To: conservative in nyc

I thought Hanoi Kerry had said that terrorism wasn't a real threat!!(( Or am i just part of the right wing conspiracy? (sarcasm))
Kerry is such a lying scumbag, wish a group of us could debate him!


3 posted on 08/28/2004 12:15:33 AM PDT by 1FASTGLOCK45
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To: conservative in nyc

You expect this crap from al Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorists groups but what really burns my toast is that we have to fight and vanquish the Enemy Within while they flow into NYC as we are reading & writing here.


4 posted on 08/28/2004 12:21:59 AM PDT by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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To: thegreatbeast

The best way to get rid of these scum protesters against Bush is to spray them with soapy water. It will remind them of a distant past experience called a "shower" which would cause them to recoil in disgust and run from the scene and try to find some mud to roll in.


5 posted on 08/28/2004 12:31:47 AM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
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To: conservative in nyc
Yeah, that's nice and messed up there.

Good thing the scumbag was caught though.

6 posted on 08/28/2004 12:34:45 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Zing!)
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To: conservative in nyc

Unfortunately, the article is missing the first paragraph, which appears on the cover (not your fault).


7 posted on 08/28/2004 1:37:38 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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From the print edition:

Two Muslim men were arrested yesterday in connection with a terror plot to detonate a bomb on the D train at the bustling 34th Street/Herald Square station, law enforcement officials told The Post.

The men, who were not identified, were taken into custody by the FBI last night after they had a conversation with an NYPD informant earlier this year at an Islamic bookstore in Brooklyn where they asked him to build a bomb, sources say.

There was no timetable for when the attack would take place, sources said, but knowledge of the plot comes only days before the city hosts President Bush and the Republican National Convention.
8 posted on 08/28/2004 1:47:08 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: conservative in nyc

Thanking you. The part about the Islamic book store was pretty significant.


9 posted on 08/28/2004 1:52:30 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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