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'TERROR' CELLS KO'D IN TUNNELS
NY Post ^ | 7/11/05 | LARRY CELONA

Posted on 07/11/2005 7:25:18 AM PDT by since1868

uly 11, 2005 -- The NYPD has disconnected cellphone service in all the city's vehicular tunnels since the London terror blasts — to prevent anyone from detonating a bomb, authorities said yesterday.

Service will remain off until further notice, spokesmen for the Port Authority and Metropolitan Transportation Authority said.

PA spokesman Tony Ciavolella said the cutoff came "at the request of the NYPD." The PA operates the Lincoln and Holland tunnels.

MTA spokesman Brian Dolan said a similar policy was enacted Thursday in the Brooklyn-Battery and Midtown tunnels.

A police source said disabling cellphones in the tunnels is a good security measure, but not a foolproof one.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: doug from upland
How about a detonation with a walki-talki?

would that work?

61 posted on 07/11/2005 8:46:34 AM PDT by since1868
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To: since1868

If the cops and transit workers radios still work in the "tunnels" then this is just a BS feel good measure IMHO. Pagers, small FRS & GMRS over the counter rigs are still tools of these killers......if.


62 posted on 07/11/2005 8:47:08 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: ClancyJ
"Why give the enemy free reign over our systems."

Perhaps we already have?

63 posted on 07/11/2005 8:48:20 AM PDT by realpatriot (Ocean Springs, Mississippi)
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To: since1868
The NYPD has disconnected cellphone service in all the city's vehicular tunnels

Can they add theaters and restaurants to the list

64 posted on 07/11/2005 8:48:56 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Calpernia

Many cell phones have a "timer" option....kinda like an alarm clock. That can be set to transmit a signal to the initiator...or device like a blasting cap.

I flunked electronics in HS....someone more fluent in electrons could fill in the blanks here....LOL.

Some crazy moooooos-limb could still stap a bomb to a motor vehicle and have it detonate inside a tunnel this way. The driver may or may not even know he's transporting it.


65 posted on 07/11/2005 8:50:27 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Squantos
I still believe it is a step in the right direction.
There is no perfect way to stop it.
Although I am a firm believer in racial profiling.
66 posted on 07/11/2005 8:50:44 AM PDT by since1868
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To: Kozak

I agree. Wait until they use a lap-top computer to detonate a bomb at a Starbuck's somewhere. I guess lap-tops will be for forbidden in public. To coin a phrase: "Bombs don't kill people...terrorists do".


67 posted on 07/11/2005 8:58:06 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: since1868

"Can you hear me now? BOOM!"


68 posted on 07/11/2005 8:59:44 AM PDT by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
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To: Redcloak

lol


69 posted on 07/11/2005 9:00:31 AM PDT by since1868
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To: ClancyJ

New york is not 'the battlefield'. Shutting off cell phones just makes it harder to find folks in the event of an incident, the terrorists rarely use the high tech, a lesson we refuse to learn. Fertilizer and Washing Machine timers. If you think about it 9/11 wasn't particurally high tech either. They used tiny knives to hijack a really big object to throw at he really big towers. I think background checks for Koran sales would do more than would cutting off cell phone calls. Just makes NY less business freindly and backward.


70 posted on 07/11/2005 9:02:29 AM PDT by kharaku (G3 (http://www.cobolsoundsystem.com/mp3s/unreleased/evewasanape.mp3))
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To: since1868

I would think it would. Leave a walk-talki on in a briefcase with explosives. The other walki-talki could be used to detonate it from a safe distance away in the tunnel.


71 posted on 07/11/2005 9:05:29 AM PDT by doug from upland (The Hillary documentary is coming)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

Suit yourself.


72 posted on 07/11/2005 9:06:19 AM PDT by null and void (You'll learn more on FR by accident, than other places by design)
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To: null and void
You can phone it in and await your death or you can do something about it. I gave no exclusion to reporting, but they turned off cell phone service; remember?

Are you a 97 year old female? Do you think that you could quietly find a few big guys in their 20's or thirties to help you out?

73 posted on 07/11/2005 9:06:51 AM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: doug from upland
Like I posted before there is no perfect way to fight terror.
But there should be racial profiling.
74 posted on 07/11/2005 9:08:05 AM PDT by since1868
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To: taxed2death

>>>Many cell phones have a "timer" option....kinda like an alarm clock. That can be set to transmit a signal to the initiator...or device like a blasting cap.

I understand that. But you said it can trigger without a signal.

That is what I don't understand.


75 posted on 07/11/2005 9:11:10 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: doug from upland
Also if we don't do it already get Israel to help.
76 posted on 07/11/2005 9:11:46 AM PDT by since1868
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To: Deaf Smith

What? Who me? I'd break the little fvcks neck before he even knew I was next to him.

I'd hope grannie would enlist my help, though.

Still, people do funny things under stress.

And it would help a subsequent investigation if some pictures of him (or her) got mailed out before anything noisy happened.


77 posted on 07/11/2005 9:12:25 AM PDT by null and void (You'll learn more on FR by accident, than other places by design)
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To: taxed2death


true...but what's the price of not doing it, you know? At least you take away one option...narrows them down. Just because you can't prevent every situation doesnt mean you shouldnt prevent the ones you can. IMHO.


78 posted on 07/11/2005 9:12:48 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent Green is People!")
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To: in hoc signo vinces

You're right that it was a good idea, but so would have been keeping it a secret.


79 posted on 07/11/2005 9:13:53 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Eva

How would they be able to keep it a secret/


80 posted on 07/11/2005 9:16:54 AM PDT by since1868
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