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New York Officials Acted Alone in Informing Public of Threat
(CNSNews.com) - New York City officials acted alone in announcing the terror threat to the subway system, President Bush said Friday, according to the Associated Press
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Oct 07 3:27 PM US/Eastern
3rd Suspect Nabbed in Subway Terror Plot
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
Associated Press Writer NEW YORK
The investigation into an alleged plot to bomb the city's subway moved forward on several fronts Friday as a third suspect was arrested in Iraq and authorities looked into whether a fourth person had traveled to New York as part of the scheme, officials said.
A law enforcement official familiar with the case said the man's trip to New York was described by an informant who had spent time in Afghanistan and proved reliable in past investigations.
"He's been a source of multiple correct information in the past," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation. "Does that mean a fourth person he identified is in fact in New York? We don't know that."
The official added that authorities had not confirmed whether the fourth man even exists.
Alarmed by the informant's report of a plot to attack city subways with as many as 19 bombs in bags and possibly baby strollers, U.S. forces in Iraq arrested two suspected plotters who had been under close surveillance until Thursday morning, officials said. The third escaped until his arrest Friday.
City officials posted thousands of additional uniformed and plainclothes officers throughout the subway system and warned New Yorkers to keep their eyes open for anything out of the ordinary.
The announcement sparked behind-the-scenes jostling with security officials in Washington, who downplayed the threat and suggested that Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have overreacted.
Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly vigorously defended their reaction Friday.
"We did exactly the right thing," Kelly said.
Those arrested had received explosives training in Afghanistan, a law enforcement official said Friday. They had planned to travel through Syria to New York, and then meet with an unspecified number of operatives to carry out the bombings. The official said that the threat was "specific to place," and that the window for the attack was anywhere from Friday through at least the weekend.
A federal official said one of the suspects arrested in Iraq apparently told interrogators that more than a dozen people were involved in the plot, and that they were of various nationalities, including Afghans, Syrians and Iraqis, the official said.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/07/D8D3COKO1.html
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Official: Threat cites this weekend
Jitters, false alarms follow New York threat announcement
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Two of the dates mentioned in intelligence about possible subway attacks in New York were Friday and Sunday, an official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
The official said the source of the threat information had trained at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan and has been an accurate purveyor of information to U.S. intelligence in the past.
The source passed a polygraph test having to do with knowledge of the possible attacks in New York, the official said.
The source had been questioned in Iraq and also provided information that led to the arrests of three al Qaeda suspects in Musayyib, about 45 miles south of Baghdad, the official told CNN.
Some of those detained were of Middle Eastern descent, the official said.
That highly classified military operation took place Wednesday, a well-placed U.S. military official has told CNN. (Full story)
Friday, October 7, is three months to the day that four bombers carried out attacks on three London subways and a double-decker bus, killing 52 people and wounding 700. The July 7 morning rush-hour attacks were the city's bloodiest since World War II.
New York has been on orange alert, or the second-highest level -- indicating a high risk of terror attack -- since the color-coded warning system was established after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The announcement of a possible attack on New York's subway system prompted San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit to raise its alert, from orange to "enhanced orange," Friday. The measure was not taken because of any specific terror threat to San Francisco, said BART spokesman Lynton Johnson.
About 300,000 people ride the BART system each weekday.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/07/newyork.subways/index.html
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