wcbstv.com - 11/26/2008
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Homeland Security: Expect Larger Police Presence In NYC And In Major Cities Across U.S. During Holidays NYPD Commissioner Kelly: We Are Preparing For Anything CBS News Interactive: America On Guard NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ― Federal authorities are warning police of a possible terror plot ...
usatoday.com - 11/20/2008
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usatoday.com —
Senior department officials have "not provided the oversight
needed" to ensure that purchases "with important national security...
objectives" function properly and stay on budget, according to Congress' Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO ...
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Report criticizes Homeland Security
news.yahoo.com - 11/26/2008
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news.yahoo.com —
WASHINGTON Federal authorities are warning law enforcement personnel
of a possible terror plot against the New York...
City subway and train systems during the holiday season, and police are beefing up security in preparation. An internal memo obtained ...
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Feds warn of terror plotting against NYC subways - ...
msnbc.msn.com - 11/26/2008
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Terror Alert
This Blog Is Full Of Crap —
There's a terror alert on for New York City public transit.
On the other hand, I'm sure that Al-Qaeda's looking at Houston's METRO and leaving it alone.
No sense in messing with an organization that's already causing widespread damage to the local populace, right?
Happy Thanksgiving everyone... and mind the illegal left turns.
What It Would Take to Kill New York -- A Simple Scenario from March, 2004
AMERICAN DIGEST —
In the news today, Feds Warn Of Terror Plot Against NYC Subways A Pakistani immigrant was arrested and convicted for a scheme to blow up the subway station at Herald Square in 2004. There was also a planned cyanide attack on the subways by al-Qaida operatives that authorities say was called off in 2002; another aborted al-Qaida plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge in 2003; and a plot to bomb underwater train tunnels to flood lower Manhattan, which was broken up in 2006 by several arrests overseas. Not, alas, news to me. ...
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