Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

I'm kind of busy and didn't have time to search completely, but I backtracked quickly and didn't see this posted. Sorry if it's already here.

N.Y. TARGETED: MEMO

NYPD BIG SECRETLY WARNED OF WMD THREAT

By DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly addressed building workers at Riverside Drive building yesterday.

Police officials fear that New York will be hit with another Al Qaeda terror strike, according to an NYPD memo obtained by the Daily News.

"Based upon intelligence derived from numerous reliable sources, including captured Al Qaeda leaders, it is clear that Al Qaeda and other related terror groups are planning to utilize WMD [weapons of mass destruction] ... to attack New York City," wrote NYPD Assistant Chief Phil Pulaski in a Jan. 12 memo to the city's Office of Emergency Management.

The memo was written as part of the NYPD's bid to get more control of chemical and hazardous spills under Mayor Bloomberg's new emergency response protocols.

The memo apparently worked. When Bloomberg issued the new protocols earlier this month, the NYPD was named the primary agency for all haz-mat operations, although the Fire Department will remain in charge of rescue and decontamination efforts.

NYPD officials tried to play down the memo yesterday, characterizing it as a general list of threats based on previously released Al Qaeda documents and their assaults overseas.

"He was not referring to any specific threat," NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said of Pulaski's memo. "He was outlining tactics, materials and intentions used or articulated by al Qaeda in the past."

Nonetheless, the memo lists a range of other frightening assaults that terrorists either have been "trained" or "directed" to pursue in New York.

They include:

Renting "strategically selected" apartments in residential buildings and simultaneously igniting gas lines "to cause a catastrophic explosion and building collapse."

Acquiring commercial driver's licenses in order to use tanker trucks as improvised WMDs.

Engaging in "acts of sabotage" against "manufacturing/storage sites, railroads/subways and energy production" facilities.

"Relentlessly" trying to use airplanes as "airborne WMDs."
The memo adds that a truck bomb was the "preferred" method for detonating a "large ... improvised explosive device."

Browne noted that warnings related to terrorists acquiring commercial driver's licenses were based on the case of Iyman Faris, 34, a Pakistani-born American who, police said, plotted to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge last year.

Faris had a trucker's license and had cased the bridge but ultimately told his handlers the "weather was too hot" in New York - a reference to the city's tight security.

Similarly, Browne said suggestions that Al Qaeda was looking to blow up apartments came from the "Al Qaeda Handbook," a guide for would-be terrorists that was submitted as evidence in 2001 as part of the federal trial into embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.

3,661 posted on 05/27/2004 9:59:17 AM PDT by freeperfromnj

To: Domestic Church

Thanks for checking though!

3,662 posted on 05/27/2004 10:00:02 AM PDT by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)

To: freeperfromnj

WOW

Getting creative, aren't they!

Sigh.

Blood thirsty satanists in drag.

3,663 posted on 05/27/2004 10:03:32 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)

>>>>>HALIFAX -- Police are investigating a serious breach of security at the Port of Halifax that allowed thieves to make off from the waterfront with a 13-metre-long container with an unidentified cargo.

"Farah Mohamed, a spokeswoman for Anne McLellan, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, declined comment on the matter yesterday. "

3,664 posted on 05/27/2004 10:03:48 AM PDT by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)

>>>After the robot scrutinized that package, police opened the box and found a new pair of women's shoes.

And 'shoe' was the code word for the missile that was intercepted from NJ.

3,665 posted on 05/27/2004 10:04:58 AM PDT by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)

Thanks for your views on Quayle.

I have the means of building the necessary surveillance tools to detect and prevent that kind of attack, but TSA has no money in the budget for that sort of thing.

Maybe they need to do some juggling and find some money for that. Surveillance tools to protect America's infrastructure seems like a good idea.

3,666 posted on 05/27/2004 10:07:59 AM PDT by Oorang ( When all else fails, simply revel in the absurdity of it all.)

Here the link to the NYC/WMD Memo story for your archives.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/197489p-170419c.html

3,667 posted on 05/27/2004 10:08:10 AM PDT by freeperfromnj

You're welcome. I appreciate all the info you posted about the seven last night. When I get time today I'm going to research each one and will post what I find.

3,668 posted on 05/27/2004 10:10:00 AM PDT by Oorang ( When all else fails, simply revel in the absurdity of it all.)

Would you mail me this valuable link please?

Tracking it down now. I first heard the details on a radio news item. I haven't seen a printed article on the net yet.

There is a further bit of information on the vulnerability of rail bridges carrying coal to power plants. The backlog of supply on the ground is at very low levels. Estimates are 40 to 45 days vs typical 60 to 90 days. See article here. Think about how long it takes to replace a rail bridge over a river. Longer than 45 days.

3,669 posted on 05/27/2004 10:13:09 AM PDT by Myrddin

I guess alot of people are concerned about that. Certainly, losing several cities will cramp our style. :)

3,670 posted on 05/27/2004 10:18:28 AM PDT by Letitring

To: freeperfromnj

3,672 posted on 05/27/2004 10:23:02 AM PDT by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)

Sorry I am just catching up. What were you saying
about Dallas

3,674 posted on 05/27/2004 10:29:44 AM PDT by drymans wife (Conservative Mom from Texas)

EOM now in Atlanta will be coming to the capital of criminals.

So you're in my town, you chicken$%#@! MF?

Please show your face. Please...I'm begging.

3,675 posted on 05/27/2004 10:30:38 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen

To: milkncookies

Weird! Hubby just told me this story last week!

3,676 posted on 05/27/2004 10:46:02 AM PDT by cgk (Social Security: America's only legal Pyramid Scheme.)

3,677 posted on 05/27/2004 10:48:52 AM PDT by cgk (Social Security: America's only legal Pyramid Scheme.)

To: milkncookies

WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, OH

WHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ARE WE GOING TO START DOING SENSIBLE THINGS LIKE THAT???

3,678 posted on 05/27/2004 10:52:23 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)

To: freeperfromnj

Okay, this is some serious stuff. The attacks are coming. Seems to me the good guys are rounding up certain groups of people, circa post 9/11, in order to disrupt, confuse, disperse, mess with, terrorist. It's worked for us in times past, pray God it works this time as well.

3,679 posted on 05/27/2004 10:55:41 AM PDT by Letitring

To: Letitring; All

I hope you're right.

Seems to me, as Constitutionally hazardous as it would be . . .

It might be a good survival thing to secretely plan and skillfully stage lockdowns in all the mosques in the country for say oh a week--10 days--until every person therein was carefully vetted.

Hang the details. They don't like it, Saudia Arabia has lots of vacant sand. They can take their tents there.

I'm sorry to come to this sort of conviction. But they are out to destroy our way of life and us. They are willingly satan's tools.

ENOUGH ALREADY YET!

3,680 posted on 05/27/2004 11:02:52 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)

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