Terrorist Plot Against NYC Uncovered, Washington to Fine City $50 Million for Success
Yesterday, a news conference was held by the leading law enforcement officials for New York City, including Police Commissioner Ray Kelly as well as representatives from the Port Authority and the FBI, to officially announce a success in thwarting a possible attack on the PATH train tunnels between Manhattan and New Jersey, although the Holland Tunnel was also an option for a band of wannabe terrorists.
The plan was to flood the tunnel and Lower Manhattan by exploding holes into the tunnels, according to the officials.
The New York Daily News reported that experts have noted that the flooding of Lower Manhattan would be impossible in the case of a successful attack on the tunnels because the island is above the river level.
Why it took multiple experts to figure that out has not been disclosed.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly noted that this is further proof that federal funds should be given based on need, according to the Daily News:
"We said continuously that when you catch a terrorist and look at the map in his or her pocket it is always a map of New York. Not a map of some other place," Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.
"New York City, Washington, D.C., a handful of other large cities in the country remain the targets for terrorists because they symbolize America," the mayor said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the threat showed "New York still remains in the cross hairs of the terrorists."
In response to this success and the uppity comments of Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff is at an undisclosed location deciding an appropriate punishment for New York City. Last month, New York City received a 40% cut in funding from the Department of Homeland Security, perhaps because the city had the audacity to conduct its own operations to make sure there is not another attack on the city.
However, sources close to Homeland Security said that New York City should be fined at least $50 million, to be taken from the DHS grants, for its behavior.
Mark Mershon of the FBI, Mayor Bloomberg, Samuel Plumeri, Jr. of the Port Authority, and Commissioner Kelly. The sad faces are due to the imminent punishment from the DHS.
(Picture by Marilynn K. Yee of the New York Times.)
The move to fine New York City may be the initial move taken by a possible new federal agency stranegly called the Urban Defense Credit Program, in which fines (taken from homeland security dollars) are levied on urban areas that have stopped possible terrorist activity without ensuring that the federal government is seen as having done 100% of the work and receiving 100% of the credit for the successes.
No press conferences by New York City officials to blast the federal government have been planned yet.
The plan was to flood the tunnel and Lower Manhattan by exploding holes into the tunnels, according to the officials.
The New York Daily News reported that experts have noted that the flooding of Lower Manhattan would be impossible in the case of a successful attack on the tunnels because the island is above the river level.
Why it took multiple experts to figure that out has not been disclosed.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly noted that this is further proof that federal funds should be given based on need, according to the Daily News:
"We said continuously that when you catch a terrorist and look at the map in his or her pocket it is always a map of New York. Not a map of some other place," Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.
"New York City, Washington, D.C., a handful of other large cities in the country remain the targets for terrorists because they symbolize America," the mayor said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the threat showed "New York still remains in the cross hairs of the terrorists."
In response to this success and the uppity comments of Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff is at an undisclosed location deciding an appropriate punishment for New York City. Last month, New York City received a 40% cut in funding from the Department of Homeland Security, perhaps because the city had the audacity to conduct its own operations to make sure there is not another attack on the city.
However, sources close to Homeland Security said that New York City should be fined at least $50 million, to be taken from the DHS grants, for its behavior.
Mark Mershon of the FBI, Mayor Bloomberg, Samuel Plumeri, Jr. of the Port Authority, and Commissioner Kelly. The sad faces are due to the imminent punishment from the DHS.
(Picture by Marilynn K. Yee of the New York Times.)
The move to fine New York City may be the initial move taken by a possible new federal agency stranegly called the Urban Defense Credit Program, in which fines (taken from homeland security dollars) are levied on urban areas that have stopped possible terrorist activity without ensuring that the federal government is seen as having done 100% of the work and receiving 100% of the credit for the successes.
No press conferences by New York City officials to blast the federal government have been planned yet.
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