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NYC counter-terror chief urges stiffer subway protection

BY CAROL EISENBERG

March 7, 2007

WASHINGTON -- New York City's counterterrorism chief said Tuesday he wakes every morning braced for another terrorist attack -- most likely from satchel bombs blown up near-simultaneously in the city's subways.

"The threat to New York City's transit system is not just theoretical," Deputy New York Police Department Commissioner Richard Falkenrath warned House lawmakers in sometimes apocalyptic testimony. "It is real. There have been 22 bomb threats and 31 intelligence leads related to subway attack plots this year."...........

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-usrail0307,0,1308522.story?track=rss


336 posted on 03/07/2007 11:07:27 AM PST by freeperfromnj
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I hope nothing ever happens to the NY subways, but, I am glad to read that the chief is looking at things realistically. Thanks for the info ffnj.
370 posted on 03/07/2007 6:40:53 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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