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Big Apple Terror? Sources: Al Qaeda Plotting to Attack New York City Corporations
ABCNews in Washington DC ^ | 7/31/04 | ABCNews in Washington DC

Posted on 07/31/2004 3:45:34 PM PDT by tmp02

Edited on 07/31/2004 4:31:44 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

 
Big Apple Terror?
Sources: Al Qaeda Plotting to Attack New York City Corporations
ABCNEWS.com

N E W  Y O R K, July 31, 2004? ABC News has learned that federal and New York City officials have received credible intelligence that al Qaeda has been plotting to carry out suicide attacks on corporations based in the city.

Sources at several law enforcement agencies tell ABC News that an "overseas source" has provided the information about the threat to New York and that it is more significant than the usual "chatter" intercepted from likely terrorists that has prompted warnings in the past.

Officials from dozens of local and federal agencies met into the night Friday and again this morning.

"Intelligence reporting indicates that al Qaeda continues to target for attack commercial and financial institutions, as well as international organizations, inside the United States," the New York City Police Department said in a statement released today on the "ongoing al Qaeda threat."

"The NYPD recommends that corporate and institutional security directors review their protection of HVAC systems, parking installations, and security in general," the statement added. "The alert level for New York City remains unchanged at 'orange' or 'high.'"

Border Worries

Intelligence sources say al Qaeda plans to move non-Arab terrorists across the border with Mexico.

Authorities already have in custody a woman of Pakistani-origin arrested after crossing into Texas. She carried a South African passport with several of the pages torn out, $7,000 in cash and an airplane ticket to New York.

New York is already on heightened alert for the Republican National Convention, which meets at Madison Square Garden in a month and will bring scores of high government officials to town.

The sources tell ABC News that Wall Street firms may be among the targeted U.S. corporations based in New York City. Which corporations or how many may be targeted has not been revealed.

Suicide Truck Bombings

Particularly disturbing to authorities were the intelligence reports that the attack may involve one or more suicide truck bombings, a tactic never seen in the United States, but one widely used by terrorists elsewhere.

"I think they want to try and shake our psyche again," says Jerry Hauer, an ABC News consultant and former director of New York City's Office of Emergency Management. "And I think the easy types of attacks right now are car bombs, truck bombs."

Law enforcement officials acknowledge such bombs are extremely difficult to prevent.

As to the timing of any planned attack, sources say it could take place between now and Election Day in November.

As the government tries to verify the reports of the threat, there are no plans to raise the national threat level, a senior Bush administration official tells ABC News.

ABCNEWS' Pierre Thomas and Bob Jamieson contributed to this report.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: badengrish; jihadinamerica; made; majorcorportations; michaelmoore; muslims; nyc; suicidebomber; targets
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To: grizzfan; All
Here's your pic, Grizzfan


101 posted on 07/31/2004 5:46:03 PM PDT by HipShot (EOM couldn't cut the head off a beer with a chainsaw)
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To: John Jorsett
"as well as international organizations, inside the United States"

Hey John! I'll betcha they're gonna try doin IN the UN!!! (if this is for real)

102 posted on 07/31/2004 5:52:47 PM PDT by SierraWasp (You better believe it! America IS exceptional!! I will always believe in American exceptionalism!!!)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

There were threads about two weeks ago. He took some WH briefings in the earlier part of this year and then refused them when the recent AQ threat was issued. He said it was because "why would I want to get briefings from the same CIA that led us into war incorrectly" or words to that effect.


103 posted on 07/31/2004 6:02:19 PM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Fee

"Hard to drive trucks into Manhattan Island"


Think Taxi.


104 posted on 07/31/2004 6:08:48 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: Shermy
review their protection of HVAC systems

So we need gas masks and oxygen tanks. Check.

105 posted on 07/31/2004 6:09:33 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: mtbopfuyn
Vincente won't like that unless he gets a hefty pay off.

LOL!

My opinion is that he and his minions are getting hefty payoffs. The Mexicans do not let the Guatemalans in because they have no money. The Arabs are getting into Mexico because of the mucho deniro.

106 posted on 07/31/2004 6:13:49 PM PDT by Selene
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To: Domestic Church

they may say NYC is at orange, but I do not see the aggressive checkpoints at the bridges and tunnels as I have in the past. Maybe after this story, things will be different on Monday.


107 posted on 07/31/2004 6:14:02 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Mr. Jeeves
You also know that 1 minute after a car bomb, people will be blaming it on Bush's "aggressive" attitude and the war in Iraq-- how many boobs will vote for immediate surrender?

A lot will depend on how Bush responds-- if he offers more "TROP" bull, then we could have a situation like Spain; if we immediately waste a lot of goat humpers, its a landslide.

I bet we'd hear "TROP", though.

108 posted on 07/31/2004 6:14:28 PM PDT by pierrem15
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To: Not a 60s Hippy
I think that the United Nations should be shut down until we can GUARANTEE their safety.

Freepers are hilarious today!

My kind of humor

109 posted on 07/31/2004 6:17:58 PM PDT by Selene
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To: John Jorsett
If an attack has to happen, I hope the attackers are dumb enough to do it before November. Unless it comes as a result of a major administration screwup, it's practically a guarantee of a Bush reelection.

I'm not so sure. The president is running on the theme that America is safer under his command, if there is a major attack before election day he's going to have a hard time defending himself from the media onslaught. If would help of course if we could get Bin Laden before November.

110 posted on 07/31/2004 6:19:25 PM PDT by mastequilla
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

It an outrage that innocent people will have to die.


111 posted on 07/31/2004 6:20:59 PM PDT by Selene
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To: John Jorsett
Unless it comes as a result of a major administration screwup, it's practically a guarantee of a Bush reelection.

I used to think that but there are enough nuts out there that are likely to think that Bush allowed the attack to succeed for political purposes... ya know, the Michael Moore/Al Gore crowd.

112 posted on 07/31/2004 6:21:43 PM PDT by Dave S
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To: ConservativeMan55

My opinion on the matter...

113 posted on 07/31/2004 6:24:36 PM PDT by Maigrey (If this is an occupation then I show my deepest respect to it ... - Hoshyar Zakhoi - (Iraq.))
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To: NYC GOP Chick
"...And there are barricades by the NYSE and some near the FRB."

But all they have blocking the path through those barricades is that flimsy black SUV that moves for delivery trucks that have been sniffed

114 posted on 07/31/2004 6:51:21 PM PDT by balls
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To: Maigrey
Though I am not against allowing for the right to bare arms, I think you would agree with me that more needs to be done than that.

I mean Joe Citizen isn't going to shoot a truckdriver because he thinks the guy is a terrorist and risk life in jail or execution for a "hate crime". Joe Citizen won't know if the guy is good or evil until it is too late to act most likely, at least in the possible threat scenarios described in this warning.

Realize that one good guy with a gun could make the difference in a hijack type of situation or countering a terrorist who has a gun.

Suicide truck bombers though would be another story.

115 posted on 07/31/2004 6:55:30 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: Shermy
Remember this?

Islamic Calendar Showed Plane Crashing Near Manhattan 9/27/01

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/534288/posts


116 posted on 07/31/2004 6:59:37 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: NYC GOP Chick

" Intelligence sources say al Qaeda plans to move non-Arab terrorists across the border with Mexico "

The KEY sentence ...Until we effectively secure our border with Mexico we shall never be safe ...Homeland Security indeed ...


117 posted on 07/31/2004 7:01:37 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: SengirV

I can paint a picture that will show how a major attack causes Bush to lose.

"X" happens and Kerry begins an immediate, if we were concetrating on Al Queda we could have stopped this but we were lied to and dragged to Iraq.


118 posted on 07/31/2004 7:01:53 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (You can turn your head away from the Berg video and still hear Al Queda's calls to prayer.)
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To: vishnu6

"What we need is a wall a la Israel along the Mexican border"

The World Court would rule that we should tear it down, just like Israel. Wonder what the dumocraps would say then...."Yet again we've alienated the international community".


119 posted on 07/31/2004 7:05:46 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
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To: NYC GOP Chick
The security isn't as great as you claim. Wish that it were. Worked on Wall Street post 9/11 and there were trucks that got there, with noone really knowing what was on the truck or who was driving.

Rode the ferry with a trader from the floor who described to me how a Pakastani with a backpack got to the floor of the Exchange and when security asked him how he got there and what he was doing there he said that he didn't know.

Saw an Arab riding the ferry and getting off and then getting back on again and taking it the other way.

This person was riding it for the point of riding it and observing operating procedure.

What I am describing here could easily have been trial runs by the enemy in at least two of the above cases, possibly.

At best they were mere lapses in security.

120 posted on 07/31/2004 7:20:10 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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