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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: Tolsti2
When Bush was around you’d get banned for mocking this kind of stuff.

Bush had some degree of credibility - Obama and company have NONE.

61 posted on 07/02/2011 7:45:03 AM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: denydenydeny

“I have no doubt that our LEOs have been prepared for this exact threat, at great taxpayer expense.”

Probably just Martha’s Vineyard. Isn’t that where the king will be vacationing?


62 posted on 07/02/2011 8:21:16 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Jeff Winston

True. I was wrong on another count- it is impossible to prove a negative- I do not know why we have not had any major attacks since 9/11.


63 posted on 07/02/2011 8:40:37 AM PDT by PghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
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To: EEGator
UGH. Please do not use that disgusting cliche again.

Thank you.

64 posted on 07/02/2011 9:40:27 AM PDT by doberville
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To: Velveeta

Thanks for the ping, Velveeta! Happy Independence Day! God bless America.


65 posted on 07/02/2011 5:45:30 PM PDT by jer33 3
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

“Or as Fred Sanford would say...”Look! It’s ‘Queen Kong.’””

Actually he would say “Why don’t you stick your face in some dough and make some gorilla cookies!”


66 posted on 07/02/2011 5:57:54 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

-——nobody can give you any idea of what it might be?-——

A counter attack from Libya against the President and his family tit for tat.

We are in a real war where son and grandchildren were killed in Libya.


67 posted on 07/02/2011 6:08:31 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: Nik Naym

Greatest line EVER!!!


68 posted on 07/02/2011 6:18:29 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: Tolsti2

Worth repeating:

“The jihadi threat is as real as ever.”


69 posted on 07/02/2011 9:12:51 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

“Amish Flash Mobs?”

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

No,no,no...they really use carrier pigeons.


70 posted on 07/02/2011 9:17:25 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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