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| New York subway threat a hoax: reports | |
| 2005-10-11 | |
| The subway terrorist threat that gripped New York last weekend was a hoax stemming from false intelligence provided by a normally reliable informant, US law enforcement officials were quoted as saying. According to newspaper and television reports, the unidentified officials said the informant -- believed to be from Pakistan -- had admitted leading investigators astray about a plot to bomb the New York subway system. The threat, which was unusually specific as to time and place, was taken very seriously by city officials who issued a high alert and flooded the subway network with extra police and National Guard troops. The informant had fingered three men in Iraq as being behind the plot, but their subsequent capture and interrogation revealed no links to any plan or any known terrorist group, CNN quoted law enforcement sources as saying. He also admitted to fabricating a story about another individual who had made his way into the United States to help lay the ground for the alleged bomb plot. "The threat has washed out," the New York Post quoted a senior law enforcement source as saying. "If there was something going on, it was disrupted." News that the threat was based on bogus information will increase the pressure on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his police commissioner, Ray Kelly, who have already been criticised for overreacting.
Bloomberg, who is seeking a second term in mayoral elections next month, told reporters on Monday that he had no regrets about his decision to inform the public and ramp up security. "We're going to take every single threat that has any chance of being credible seriously and do exactly what we did," he said. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #8 History has shown efficient ways for dealing with the left...perhaps they should be brought back. |
| Posted by: Witt 2005-10-11 22:48 |
| #7 I agree I hate them too. What to do ??? |
| Posted by: Witt 2005-10-11 22:46 |
| #6 Yeah, yeah, we know - its all Dubya's fault, the fault of GOP-led defective national Fascism/Fascist Socialism, the fault of Federalism and Capitalism, the pro-America anti-Sociaist/OWG wing of the Demmies, and the of course the Federal level of Gummint and only the Federal level of Gummint. The Fed and only the Fed must expand expand expand, tax tax tax, and spend spend spend, where ala AL SHARPTONISM Repubs, Conservatives and non-African American minorities/ethnic groups can work for their wealth and livelihood BUT NOLA'S=AMERICA'S BLACK AND POOR HAVE THE ABSOLUTE AND UNDENIABLE RIGHT AND PRIVELEGE TO STAY POOR AND PERMANENTLY SUBSISTING ON PUBLIC GOVT. WELFARE - EEEEERRRRRRR, SOMEBODY ELSE'S TAXPAYER DOLLARS: you know, Lefty Universal EQUALISM and "PROGRESSIVE"!? HUMILIATE AND IMPEACH DUBYA AND HIS ADMIN. NOW, D*** YOU, for having the unmitigated gall to tell Clintonian Amerika's sacred Communist-LeftSocie Heartland and pro-OWG Mainstream that Americans work for a living! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-10-11 22:38 |
| #5 It also gives terrorists the chance to see what the reaction ot a real threat would be. Nonetheless, it's what ya gotta do. |
| Posted by: Omotle Wheath4589 2005-10-11 17:11 |
| #4 With fresh memory of 9/11, New Yorkers are not going to be less inclined to heed such warnings and take precautions. But, obviously this disinformation campaign achieved its objective: terrorize even when there is no "real" treat. I suspect this is only the beginning of this dance. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-10-11 16:41 |
| #3 A very good practice for the real thing. Unfortunately, I think the exact opposite is true and underscores the double-edged nature of warning the public about terrorist threats. Post enough false alarms and everyone begins to tune out all the warnings. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2005-10-11 16:11 |
| #2 A very good practice for the real thing. But I do hope the informant's interrogators beat him thoroughly for his deceit. Billing him for the cost of patrolling NYC doesn't seem out of line, either. Not to mention recompense for those Iraqis he falsely named. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-10-11 15:58 |
| #1 This was far more specific information than the memo which the loons use to claim "Bush knew". |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-10-11 15:51 |