[Cindy]

Thanks to nw_arizona_granny for pointing to this article:
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"NYC Mayor Not Sure Subway Threats Were Hoax"
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171953,00.html
AP

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police officials questioned reports on Tuesday that an alleged subway bomb plot that spread fear
through the city was a hoax.

"I don't know that it was confirmed that it was a hoax at all,"
Bloomberg said when asked about the reports by a cable news network and the
New York Post, which is owned by News Corp., the parent company of
FOXNews.com.

The reports, citing unnamed sources, claimed an informant in Iraq who
had told U.S. authorities about the possible threat by Al Qaeda later
admitted he made it up.

The informant's allegation prompted city and FBI officials last week to
issue a dire public warning and to flood the subway system with
thousands of extra police officers.

After four days of high alert, the officials announced Monday there was
no clear evidence an attack would be carried out and scaled back the
protection.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, appearing with Bloomberg at a
hospital groundbreaking in Harlem, said the informant could not have recanted
because U.S. authorities in Iraq had lost track of him.

"As far as we know right now, the source is not in custody," he said."

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

FOX NEWS.com (AP): New York - "NYC MAYOR NOT SURE SUBWAY THREATS WERE HOAX" (October 12, 2005)

FOX NEWS.com: "SOURCES: NYC SUBWAY THREAT INFO NOT SUBSTANTIATED" (October 11, 2005)

DEFENSElink.mil: "INTEL FROM IRAQ RAIDS LEADS TO NEW YORK CITY SECURITY HIKE" by Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service (October 7, 2005)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "NYC SUBWAY ALERT" (October 6, 2005)

FOX NEWS.com: New York - "NYC UPS SUBWAY SECURITY AFTER BOMB THREATS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Authorities stepped up security on the city's mass transit system Thursday after receiving a credible threat that the New York City subway may be the target of a terrorist attack in the coming days.") (October 6, 2005) (Read More...)

WHITEHOUSE.gov - News Release - Office of the Press Secretary: "PRESIDENT DISCUSSES WAR ON TERROR at National Endowment for Democracy Ronald Reagan Building and Intrnational Trade Center, Washington, D.C." (October 6, 2005)

DEFENSElink.mil: Washington - "PRESIDENT URGES MUSLIMS TO DENOUNCE VIOLENT EXTREMISM" by Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service (October 6, 2005)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "BUSH HITS 'ISLAMIC RADICALS'" by Bill Sammon (October 7, 2005)

FrontPageMagazine.com: "BUSH DECLARES WAR ON RADICAL ISLAM" by Daniel Pipes (October 11, 2005)

[nw_arizona_granny]

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, appearing with Bloomberg at a
hospital groundbreaking in Harlem, said the informant could not have
recanted
because U.S. authorities in Iraq had lost track of him.

"As far as we know right now, the source is not in custody," he said."<<<<<<

the above was why I posted that post.

Why don't we have him? Where is he? Is the statement true?

Why? Why? Why?