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Cities on High Alert as July Fourth Nears: 'Threat Is Very Real'
ABC News ^ | 7/1/11 | PIERRE THOMAS

Posted on 07/01/2011 7:08:38 PM PDT by Mossad1967

Although no specific plot has been identified, revelers this Fourth of July can expect extraordinary security -- from expanded patrols and SWAT units to biological weapon response teams and undercover officers mingling with celebratory crowds. "It's absolutely not a joke," said New York police Sgt. Thomas Horvath, who took ABC News on patrol around New York City's waterways. "The threat is very real. On the day of the [July 4] event, we're going to put out basically every asset we have."...

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: independenceday; july4; july4jihad; terroralert
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To: ladyjane

I cannot remember past events, in which so many of the inner city gangs have been coming up out of the ghetto. They are going into downtown areas or nicer residential areas, and causing mayhem the way they have been doing this year.

Memorial Day weekend was very bad in a number of cities for this very reason.

I couldn’t believe what happened in Chicago on Memorial Day. The youth gangs were causing unrest on a beach. The beach was ordered closed. The official reason for the beach closing was due to heat. Chicago was having a heat wave that day.

That one doesn’t pass the smell test, because why would you close a cooler beach next to a cool lake on a hot day???

That one sure showed that officials are taking great pains not to call a spade a spade, and not wanting to say that the youth gangs are coming up out of the ghetto and threatening everyone in formerly safe areas.


41 posted on 07/01/2011 8:46:28 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: umgud

“Amish Flash Mobs?”

So they exchange messages by mail and take a year to assemble somewhere?

Or is an Amish Flash Mob otherwise known as a barn raising?


42 posted on 07/01/2011 8:50:10 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Real hope and change comes in January 2013)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

There were a number of cities that had riots over Memorial Day weekend. Incredibly Boston did. They usually don’t have any problems. Chicago, Myrtle Beach some other cities. Charlotte - where the DNC convention is going to be held next year - had thousands of thugs rioting.

I think this summer we are going to have some serious inner city problems. I hope I’m wrong.


43 posted on 07/01/2011 8:52:37 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Georgia Girl 2
thank you...
44 posted on 07/01/2011 9:07:30 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Mossad1967

It’s ironic that the primary targets for terrorism are the concentrated Democrat parasite nests (”cities”).


45 posted on 07/01/2011 9:10:35 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Mossad1967

It’s no surprise. We don’t have the national will to fight a real war, yet. So we only use our cops as catchers (as in baseball) to the best of their abilities.


46 posted on 07/01/2011 9:16:35 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96)
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To: Tolsti2

Yes, the Jihadi threat is as real as ever; but that is not the group Obama wants eliminated.


47 posted on 07/01/2011 9:29:13 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

re: Post #7

Seriously uncool to post stuff like that without a BARF ALERT.

just sayin’.


48 posted on 07/01/2011 10:00:34 PM PDT by Longdriver
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To: lmsii
No you too. And I thought I had the only family that flew the Gadsden Flag, drank beer, plinked from the deck, and grilled over the 4th.

A friend of mine once commented that if archaeologists ever
dig up the area around my deck they will conclude that a
long, desperate battle was fought over a liquor store.

49 posted on 07/01/2011 10:18:43 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: Tolsti2

According to your sign up date you weren’t around here when Bush was around.


50 posted on 07/01/2011 10:25:41 PM PDT by John W (Natural-born US citizen since 1955)
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To: nwctwx; Cindy; Godzilla; nw_arizona_granny; callmejoe; Oorang; StillProud2BeFree; Calpernia; ...

Threats ping.


51 posted on 07/01/2011 10:35:48 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta

Thanks so much for the ping, Velveeta. BUMP for AM read.

/FR


52 posted on 07/01/2011 10:49:51 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Don Corleone; Mossad1967

Happy Independence Day!!!

53 posted on 07/01/2011 10:53:06 PM PDT by boatbums ( God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Never did pass the smell test.

Memorial Day 911 tapes cite fighting near beach before closing
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/6145536-417/memorial-day-911-tapes-cite-fighting-near-beach-before-closing.html

Rahm Emanual = liar and bully


54 posted on 07/01/2011 11:05:13 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: PghBaldy
It’s real, but not as big a threat as we were led to believe.

From what I've seen, al Qaeda proper seems to be mostly hunkered down in safe houses watching old videos of themselves on TV.

We do have a recent history of mass shootings by individuals inspired by al Qaeda. Not very many, but a few.

For that reason, those who are legally able to carry concealed, who will be near big public events where carry is possible and a firearm can be WELL controlled (and by this I mean kept out of the reach of children and others who might gain access - I wouldn't want to inspire a 4th of July accident) - such people may find this weekend a suitable one to be responsibly prepared.

55 posted on 07/01/2011 11:23:19 PM PDT by Jeff Winston (Run, Sarah... Run, and win.)
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To: All

Thanks for the ping Vel and wishing you and your family a happy and blessed Independence Day.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2733760/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad/index


56 posted on 07/01/2011 11:35:28 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Mossad1967
Haven't we've heard this before? There's no specific plot but there's a "very real" "threat"... How is this different from any other July 4?

Is this simply rampant paranoia because it's the first July 4th post Bin Laden ?

57 posted on 07/01/2011 11:46:23 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: boxlunch

Yeah...I was gonna say, watch out for those Republicans enjoying a 4th of July parade. According to Harvard, they’re terrorists.


58 posted on 07/02/2011 12:34:48 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: John W
Maybe the poster was with the DU then she a comparison was made. Just a thought.

Does a Fourth of July attack make sense? 9/11 was a workday so offices were ripe with targets for Al Queda. But on the 4th? Are they expecting Olympic Park bombing type events at fireworks cookouts?

59 posted on 07/02/2011 3:02:48 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: Salvavida

Exactly right. The 4th was right next to Christmas for me. Liberty is being destroyed through fear.

Btw, your tag line puts it well.


60 posted on 07/02/2011 7:43:14 AM PDT by ecomcon
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