Posted on 10/06/2005 2:14:10 PM PDT by conservativepoet
BREAKING NEWS ON CNN: POTENTIAL TERRORIST THREAT TO NY SUBWAYS
What's ESU?
looks like the bus just came out tunnel with loads of squad cars following it.
It's on a FD scanner. 60-65 passengers exited MTA bus. Fans on. Smoke lightening up.
60-65 passengers exited - NTA bus exhaust fans on - smoke lightening up
Sounds like a sand wedge distance for me.
What are you talking about?
More info:
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/topstories_story_279174521.html
According to the source, the information came with specific details about how the attack would be mounted, how many people might be involved, and by what route the terrorists would approach the rail system.
I know. Pretty unbelievable.
This stuff is an every day occurrence in NYC
When I lived in L.A. and commuted by bus, bus fires were a common occurence; in fact, I was on one that caught fire and we had to unload and stand and wait for a bus to pick us up. IF that's all this is, I wouldn't be alarmed by a bus fire.
"Maybe that's why the MTA has been saturating the radio airways the last couple of days with public service announcements about the need to stay alert and report unusual situations like people dressed inappropriately for the weather, bags with wires hanging out from them, etc. I started hearing the ads on Tuesday night"
I actually heard them last week, but attributed their airing to generalized pre-ramadan jihad jitters.
that's what I thought
Is a bus "just" on fire...or was it a bomb? Or, don't we know.
More information:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/nyregion/06cnd-subway.html
Government officials said that in the last couple of days, a C.I.A.-F.B.I. operation in Iraq had taken two people there into custody in an effort to disrupt the plot. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details are classified, said the plot appeared to involve a dozen or so people in an effort to plant explosives in the subway system around the middle of this month.
At the news conference, officials would only allude to an overseas operation and declined to provide details about detentions, saying only that they had taken place outside New York.
"Classified operations have partially disrupted this threat," Mark Mershon, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations' New York office, said at the news conference. "The F.B.I. and other U.S. personnel continue to work around the clock. Nothing that has surfaced in that investigation has corroborated an actual threat to the city."
Mr. Mershon said the threat could be "resolved in the coming days," but he did not explain what he meant.
The city has known about the threat for several days, the mayor said, but decided that making it public too soon "could have jeopardized the lives" of some investigators.
I hope this is one of those occurrences. :) Just mundane, nothing more.
Placemark!
oh.
thank you. : )
I keep thinking a tactic would be to do something like this - set off a smoke bomb - draw in the personnell and then detonate the real bomb - hope not
Hey, be fair. The cables will break in and carry a car chase for HOURS. ;-)
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