U.S. Studying Possible NYC Terror Threat

Oh dear:

U.S. authorities are studying a terror threat to New York
City and are "very concerned" by the volume of threats to U.S.
interests at home and overseas, a U.S. intelligence official said on
Friday.
But there was some confusion over the level of the threat, with New
York police officials saying they knew of no credible threat to the
city, site of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center by
hijacked airliners.
In Washington, the White House spokesman said the Homeland Security
Department had sent out a number of warnings to security personnel
around the country in the run-up to the holiday season.
"We have remained concerned about the volume of reporting of threats
and that is why the Department of Homeland Security has sent out
several bulletins over the past few weeks to homeland security
officials and law enforcement personnel, urging all to continue be on
heightened state of alert especially as we enter the busy holiday
season," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
The U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition he not be named,
said of the reported threat to New York: "We are in the process of
trying to determine its credibility and trying to corroborate it."
"There has been a threat to New York City that we're aware of," the
official added.

I read in another article (but I can't remember where) that the threat
specifically referred to a female suicide bomber. Imagine a suicide
bomber in Times Square on NYE. Yikes.

Posted by flow Frazao on December 19, 2003 at 02:53 PM | Permalink