Posted on 09/16/2009 11:09:12 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Fearful of a Madrid-style subway train bombing, authorities are poised to make more raids to seize bomb-making materials at locations in Queens, sources said Wednesday.
The FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team arrived in New York in anticipation of the offensive to thwart a Denver-based terror cell with ties to Al Qaeda, police sources told the Daily News.
Another source said an earlier raid uncovered nine backpacks and cell phones, raising memories of the March 2004 bombings in Madrid. A series of terrorist bombs detonated aboard commuter trains killed 191 people.
The source said authorities feared a potential attack on the city subway, with its 5.2 million daily riders.
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So they are letting the terrorists know they are coming now?
Good grief!
Probably just an LDS Missionary training convention.
Nice of the press to give the bombers a heads up eh.
Gosh I hope we don’t violate any terrorists’ rights. /s off
Tunnels of Death Ping, remember from way back when.
Looks like this little plot has more than we are being told about.
OMG, even after Obama is in, they STILL hate us, LOL!
Or maybe not.
The FBI should mark the spots where they will deploy on the sidewalk and sides of buildings, so that papers can post photos of the operations and provide better coverage of the story.
Apparently civility requires that we let them know we’re coming for a visit.
Who’s worse, the leaker or the liberal media who publish the leak, I dunno.
Unless the plan is to make the guilty parties out themselves by fleeing.
This is not an unusual tactic. Try to get them on the move or to make them act before they’re ready.
What really boggles my mind is the idiot Mayor Bloomberg is-— yesterday I think—saying there is no iminent threat. If it were my I’d have every innocent New Yorked giving a hard look at anybody who even so much as twitched funny. And please spare me the PC crap. Hurt feelings are much preferred to dead and maimed people.
Of course, innocent until proven guilty.
Islam is prima face evidence of treason in the US.
This threat was detected and thwarted by that mean President Bush’s programs that violate everybody’s civil liberties. They should immediately apologize to muslims world-wide and return all the backpacks and cell phones.
>>saying there is no iminent threat
Oh, crap!
Never believe anything until it is officially denied.
I remember being in London in 1991. The “underground” would often skip a station (worse: my station, with a pending rail connection) because of an unattended package or other suspicious behavour.
I got locked in the British Museum gift shop for about 45 minutes (there are much worse places to spend 3/4 of an hour) because of some unspecified security threat.
Airport security at Heathrow in those days was, imho, far better and less instrusive than in the U.S. these days. The Brits really know how to handle these things.
Well, they briefed some members of CONgress.
“No. Of course, I’m not a terrorist,” the 25-year-old Afghan national said Tuesday.
Well then, that settles it. S/Off
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