Posted on 09/09/2011 12:08:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York police increased security, including vehicle checkpoints in midtown Manhattan and armed guards in front of the Office of Emergency Management, after receiving credible information that terrorists may be plotting an attack in the city around the Sept. 11 anniversary.
Police cruisers took up positions on a midtown block of Lexington Avenue this morning as officers stopped trucks and other vehicles for inspection. Drivers were made to open the storage spaces of delivery trucks for police. In Brooklyn, U.S. marshals armed with machine guns guarded the federal courthouse and increased security was observed in front of the nearby city emergency management office.
"We have already had a full complement of people working shifts because of the Sept. 11 anniversary prior to this," said Jim Margolin, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York office. "We are taking the logical investigative measures to assess this threat."
The threat concerns a possible al-Qaeda-sponsored attack targeting New York or Washington on or near the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, said a U.S. official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The official said the intelligence concerns a possible vehicle-borne attack, perhaps on a transportation hub or bottleneck, and cautioned that the options may be broader than a car or truck bombing.
Interest in Anniversaries
"As we know from the intelligence gathered from the Osama bin Laden raid, al-Qaeda has shown an interest in important dates and anniversaries, such as 9/11," Janice Fedarcyk, the FBI's assistant director in charge of the New York office, said at a press conference yesterday. "In this instance, it's accurate that there is specific, credible but unconfirmed information. We take all threats reported seriously and have taken and will continue to take all steps necessary to mitigate all threats as they arise."
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We had to stop doing traffic control points in Baghdad because it was too intrusive, we didn’t want to alienate the locals and we wanted the place to return to a state of normalcy quicker. Odd times we live in.
It would seem to me that if one could make a “truck bomb”, one could just as easily make a “car bomb”. And with the recent spate of publicity, I can’t imagine that the terrorists haven’t figured this out and adapted their plans accordingly.
this is about trying to distract us from the utter patheticness of Obama
More street theater. Imagine if after 9-11, the borders were actually secured, those in charge of immigration were given the tools needed for accurate, timely assessments, those hiring, aiding and abetting illegals were actually prosecuted. Instead we pay for the college education of red chinese, refurbish mosques, invite in Jihadis from around the world in the name of diversity, call Islam the Religion of Peace instead of a complete socio-political system bent on world domination, call illegals paperless immigrants...
One of our employees in L.A. (he takes the subway to work) said that armed Sheriff officers were in every Red Line subway station at 8 am..
It pays to be vigilant, but from a terrorist’s point of view, if they are looking for a truck bomb in Midtown, I would leave a suitcase bomb in DUMBO.
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