http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/22/2009-09-22_search_for_qaeda_explosives.html
“Cops, feds ransack Queens storage sites for Qaeda bomb-making materials”
BY ALISON GENDAR, JAMES GORDON MEEK, JOHN MARZULLI, ROCCO PARASCANDOLA AND CORKY SIEMASZKO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, September 22nd 2009, 4:00 AM
SNIPPET: “NYPD investigators, in coordination with the FBI, hit chemical and fertilizer companies looking for customers who bought bulk and paid cash - and they were also showing up at storage centers in Long Island City.
Investigators believe they were going to use the units to mix chemicals for explosives.
“They’re full on, and still going full bore,” a counterterror official said of the bomb hunt.
The Department of Homeland Security at the same time has issued a nationwide bulletin asking cops to look at storage facilities.
“Operation Nexus” took on an extra urgency after raids on Queens apartments Zazi visited turned up knapsacks and cell phones. The exact targets are not known, but the find raised the specter of simultaneous blasts like the 2004 attack that killed 191 commuters in Spain.
ABC News reported that investigators believe that there were three teams of four terrorists involved in the planning.
A senior counterterror official told The News, however, that nobody knows for sure who else is out there - or whether the plot is disrupted.”
SNIPPET: "Investigators believe they were going to use the units to mix chemicals for explosives."
SNIPPET: "The Department of Homeland Security at the same time has issued a nationwide bulletin asking cops to look at storage facilities."
” A senior counterterror official told The News, however, that nobody knows for sure who else is out there - or whether the plot is disrupted.” “
That’s sure confidence-inspiring....
Good Morning, Cindy... ;)