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To: freeperfromnj; jerseygirl

some weird things in manhattan today (not sure if any of this was covered on this thread today):

- a boiler explosion on ellis island caused their "terror plan" to be activated, evacuating island visitors to the ferries.
- a fire in an elevator shaft in the marriott marquis
- a car was abandoned inside the midtown tunnel, just left there with no driver. the tunnel was closed in both directions while the bomb squad checked out the car.

the last one troubles me, you just can't stop your car and hop out in the tunnel and walk out. I don't get it, there are cameras in there and police at both ends. it must be that the car was stopped, the driver hopped into another car with a different driver who drove them out. basically, this one is troubling because that would be the way a car bomb could be placed in the tunnel.

5,047 posted on 02/02/2004 6:05:34 PM PST by oceanview

I did hear about the Ellis Island story but not the others. Very strange. This story also caught my attention. Happening as we speak

http://www.wnbc.com/traffic/2812786/detail.html

5,059 posted on 02/02/2004 6:17:13 PM PST by freeperfromnj

A couple of other interesting stories from the foreign press:

Al Qaeda planned to spray toxic agents in planes going to US

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=373976&PageNum=0

Anthrax plot warning grounds Scottish flight to Los Angeles

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/9124.html

5,061 posted on 02/02/2004 6:20:13 PM PST by freeperfromnj

Hopefully the cameras will catch who exited the car

5,355 posted on 02/03/2004 8:08:35 AM PST by JustPiper (D A M N I T O L Take 2 and the rest of the world can go to hell for up to 8 full hours)

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