NY Subway Plots Revealed
This from the AP, by Delvin Barrett and Tom Hays, in "NY subway terror threat emerges on busy travel day"
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TERROR_WARNING?SITE=AP
The main article was simply about a current reported threat, but midway down it dropped the following bomb:
A Pakistani immigrant was arrested and convicted for a scheme to blow up the subway station at Herald Square in 2004. There was also a planned cyanide attack on the subways by al-Qaida operatives that authorities say was called off in 2002; another aborted al-Qaida plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge in 2003; and a plot to bomb underwater train tunnels to flood lower Manhattan, which was broken up in 2006 by several arrests overseas.
Ok. Now, why haven't we been hearing about any of this before -- particularly during the 2008 election? Could it be that, in light of this many planned attacks, at least two of which reached the point where they were stopped only by interception, Bush's monitoring of phone conversations, etc. starts to look fairly reasonable?
Suppose that we hadn't been keeping Al Qaeda on the ropes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and suppose that we hadn't been monitoring both our own Muslim citizens and Islamists in other countries. How many of these attacks would have actually gone to completion? How many New Yorkers would have died? Would it have been worth it, just to avoid being nagged at by the Europeans and our own paranoid Left?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TERROR_WARNING?SITE=AP
The main article was simply about a current reported threat, but midway down it dropped the following bomb:
A Pakistani immigrant was arrested and convicted for a scheme to blow up the subway station at Herald Square in 2004. There was also a planned cyanide attack on the subways by al-Qaida operatives that authorities say was called off in 2002; another aborted al-Qaida plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge in 2003; and a plot to bomb underwater train tunnels to flood lower Manhattan, which was broken up in 2006 by several arrests overseas.
Ok. Now, why haven't we been hearing about any of this before -- particularly during the 2008 election? Could it be that, in light of this many planned attacks, at least two of which reached the point where they were stopped only by interception, Bush's monitoring of phone conversations, etc. starts to look fairly reasonable?
Suppose that we hadn't been keeping Al Qaeda on the ropes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and suppose that we hadn't been monitoring both our own Muslim citizens and Islamists in other countries. How many of these attacks would have actually gone to completion? How many New Yorkers would have died? Would it have been worth it, just to avoid being nagged at by the Europeans and our own paranoid Left?