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On the anniversary of the London subway bombings, US and city officials made a big show out of confirming that three men had been arrested for plotting to bomb various tunnels leading into Manhattan. But the tunnels they were looking at were PATH tunnels to the World Trade Center and Christopher Street - not the Holland Tunnel or even the Lincoln Tunnel as previously mentioned by the Daily News and Senator Schumer respectively. Interesting. The NY Times has an interesting quote from an anonymous counterterrorism source:
"These are bad guys in Canada and a bad guy in Lebanon talking, but it never advanced beyond that."Speculation, schmeculation - it's yet another opportunity to remind Homeland Security that NYC needs mo' money for counterterrorism offers. What's especially weird is that apparently the plotters got their maps off the Homeland Security's website. Huh? At any rate, we thank everyone for reminding us Lower Manhattan is above sea level and can't be flooded by bombing tunnels - the NYPD is still stepping up its patrols, too."Like most plots that you get before they develop, it doesn't look that serious, but you never know," he said. "It's busted up; I think it's another good success."
He added: "They never were in New York, they never were in the States, they never got materials together. So in that regard, it's less serious than some of the others. Until you get materials together, it's not that serious; it's still in the speculative stage."
And not only does the Daily News get the scoop for there being a plot yesterday (who cares if they thought it was the Holland Tunnel), they get to put a photograph of "lead" plotter Assem Hammoud shirtless on the cover! Take that, Post! But the Post does call him a "Psycho-Path".
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I gave up at the headline, its "Targeted" one "t".
"What's especially weird is that apparently the plotters got their maps off the Homeland Security's website."?
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Well, that's embarrassing!
Our government is scamming us into ceding our rights in return for security, but they are the ones creating the threat:
A noted terror expert has told the BBC that Mohammed Siddique Khan, the alleged ringleader of the 7/7 London bombings, was working for British intelligence agency MI5 as an informant at the time of the attacks.
Charles Shoebridge is a 12-year veteran detective of the London Metropolitan Police, a former graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and now a broadcaster and writer on terrorism in the UK.
Shoebridge told the BBC Newshour program that from the evidence little else can be assumed other than that Khan was working for British intelligence.
"The amount of information coming out and the quality of information coming out. The fact that that has been so consistently overlooked it would appear by the security service MI5, to me suggests really only one of two options."
"Either, a) we've got a level of incompetence that would be unusual even for the security services. But b) possibly, and this is a possibility, that this man Khan may even have been working as an informant for the security service."
"It is difficult otherwise to see how it can be that they've so covered his tracks in the interim."
Remember what Micheal Moore said: "There is no terrorist threat. No threat!. Ps. Iraqi insurgents are not terrorists, they are heroes".
Was it Daily News that leaked this? New York Jazeera failed to warn terrorists this time?? WTF??
New York will always be a target for obvious reasons (economic status, media exposure, etc.).