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Wrong. The Brooklyn kid story was real (I know NYPD who investigated). The kid's father left the US on the 10th and didn't come back.
I own real estate in the area. The Egyptian owner of an apartment directly below one of my rentals left around the 8th and never came back. The co-op is still in his name, still fully furnished and still vacant.
The Saudi neighbor of one of my sisters in upscale Bergen County left the Saturday before and has not returned.
I believe (as do the LEOs I know in the NYC area) that there is some discussion, however vague, about plans in the area mosques. That is why I will not trust or befriend a single muslim.
As to this cabbie thing...I don't buy it. Cabbies have picture IDs in the cars. Anybody receiving a kindly warning would get the name and report the driver.