Let’s hope it was a hoax.
Today and the rest of the week will tell
Rest of the week? I thought Wednesday was the day for whatever it was that was supposed to happen. I need more tin foil if this thing is dragging out longer.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/01/06/2009-01-06_terror_threat_just_a_terrible_hoax_says_-2.html
Terror threat just a terrible hoax, says NYPD
BY Matthew Lysiak and Simone Weichselbaum DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Updated Wednesday, January 7th 2009, 1:52 PM
A chilling terror warning spreading across the U.S. and Israel is a hoax, NYPD officials said yesterday.
The threat, which has popped up on forwarded e-mails and blog posts across the world, warns of an attack in New York today.
It says the warning originated with a Muslim cab driver who told a Jewish woman he picked up of a Jan. 7 plot.
"There is no terror plot or threat connected to the rumor that is circulating in New York and in other cities abroad," said Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.
"There are several variations on the rumor, but it is just that, the latest urban myth. There is no basis in the rumor and it is not tied to any known threats."
Both City Hall and the NYPD were alerted to the viral message days ago, officials said.
Scores of synagogues across the city have added extra security due to the conflict in Gaza, and no longer "have an open door policy," said Rabbi Joseph Potasnik with the New York Board of Rabbis.
Meanwhile, the Web site of the Bay Ridge Jewish Center was hacked by a man calling himself "EL_MuHAMMeD FOR PALESTINE."
Pictures of hooded men launching missiles and burning the American flag appeared on the center's site last night.
Calls to the center were not returned. "I clicked on my little synagogue's Web site and I saw a man with a gun pointing at me and the words death to Israel - I was shocked. It was scary. It's an act of terror on a Web site," said Judith Goldberg, 38. "As a Jew that doesn't make me feel very good."