NYC Update:
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/53446.htm
The tip that triggered the massive security sweep came from two al Qaeda militants arrested this week in a joint FBI-CIA-U.S. military raid outside Baghdad, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
The terrorists were described as unemployed chemists who had recently taken a six-week explosive training course in Afghanistan.
The al Qaeda snitches also told U.S. officials that they planned to travel to New York, by way of Syria, with bogus passports.
Once here, they would meet up with 19 operatives who had already been sent to New York to help set off the bombs, the sources said.
The bombs would either be hidden in baby carriages or planted in briefcases similar to those used in this summer's London bus and train bombings.
Interesting aside - today is the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto (1571), which drove the Turks out of Vienna. It is seen by Muslims as a great and decisive defeat in their plans to overrun Europe, and I think Osama mentioned Lepanto in one of his ravings.
The muzzies are very fond of returning to a date where they weren't successful in the past and attempting to take a second stab at it. I wonder if their attacks had been timed for today, Oct. 7, because of Lepanto.
Chemists.
Not good.