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Lebanese Arrested In Connection With New York Plot

2006-07-08

(AKI) - A man has been detained in the capital of Lebanon, Beirut, in connection with a plot to blow up tunnels in New York, counter-terrorism sources told CNN on Friday. The New York Daily News first reported on Friday that the FBI had revealed a plan to bomb New York's Holland Tunnel and flood the financial district in Manhattan.The man arrested in Beirut is reportedly called Amir Andalousi and the Daily News reported that the arrest took place in recent months.

The FBI said on Friday it had no indication of imminent threats to New York's transport system. Plotters reportedly considered targets including the Holland Tunnel which links Manhattan and New Jersey. FBI agents said plotters had discussed driving vehicles laden with explosives into several tunnels around Manhattan and then blowing them up. Information from Islamic militant websites suggests that the late leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had agreed to give his financial support, the FBI says. None of the suspects sought in connection with the plot is in the United States, a source told CNN.

Posted by:Fred

#5 Oh, rumours, ya say. Then I will stand down. Belay my last rant, heh.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-07-08 18:27

#4 AP...You've got it all wrong, my friend. I have been scanning moonbat blogs and they are convinced this is a fraud concocted by (guess who?) on the anniversary of the 7/7 bombing to revive fear and deflect criticism. They have have to be correct.

Posted by: anymouse 2006-07-08 16:04

#3 Unless the Bush Administration, specifically the DoJ, grows a pair, and prosecutes the NYT, their sources of intel, et al, these kind of LLL types will continue to leak info. I will have to lay long odds on that happening. I am afraid that it will take a major terrorist event in this country to wake enough people up to deal with these traitors. And I am using the word in its true meaning. This stuff makes my blood boil.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-07-08 12:45

#2 So I wonder if Maureen Dowd, and the New York Times will belittle these guy that they aren't capable of finding the Holland Tunnel? They did that with those guys in Florida, when MoDo announced, "They can't even find the Chicago Sears Tower."

Wonder if she and the staff of the NYT are willing to be "human shields" and stand at the entrances of the Holland Tunnel to protect their city from being destroyed? After all, these guys, who have been arrested for the very reason of destroying them, had the words and plans of this mission.

Sheezzz...... the NYT editorial will probably invite these killers to come "join us at the entrances of the Holland Tunnel" so we can dialogue...

Some Ms. Townsend on Neil Cavuto, in closing statements tonight, hinted to disgust of even the details of this mission being revealed. Seems she thought that maybe too many details were being published. Kinda got the feeling, she would really have preferred just statements conveying, "We got some guys that wanted to hurt us."

And of course, we all know, this group got rolled up early because of the NYT. Can't we do some kind of class action suit suing the NYT that they have harmed the security of me and mine? The FBI didn't get all the guys they wanted, cause they had to roll this one up early, thanks to the NYTimes ..... I can't continue with this

Posted by: Sherry 2006-07-08 02:10

#1 Underlying message is send NY more and more money.

The Miami loons were reportedly incompetent, but by every indication, so were these idiots. While they planned a subway "gang bang" they failed to realize how well fortified the NY tunnel is.

The NY captures = send more money
The Miami captures = no additional money

Posted by: Captain America 2006-07-08 00:20

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