Sources: Subway threat made

[cal04]

A "credible threat" to the subway system has prompted a vast mobilization of police officers, law enforcement sources said today.

Hundreds of officers were expected to be dispatched as early as this afternoon to every station in Manhattan -- and possibly system wide -- to thwart the attack, which was said to timed to the Jewish High Holidays and the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Scores of officers from various narcotics units are being called in to assist in patrolling the subways, beginning as early as this afternoon. Many were expected to convene first at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Police sources also said that cops were expected to be kept on 12-hour tours over the weekend. Police could not yet identify the source of the threat, other than to call it "credible." It comes as the city emerges from two days of hightened alert during the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana. Police officers patrolled outside of synagogues as thousands of congregants attended services.

MTA officials said they were unaware of the threat until alerted by a reporter. They were expected to return calls later this afternoon.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-subthreat,0,3649633.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. Please define "credible."

As in, Rove's facing deep shit?

[malaise]

2. Bingo!! n/t

[WritingIsMyReligion]

13. :D :D nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. That's what I think too

[BeHereNow]

8. IF there is an attack- it will be manufactured

To distract etc...
The REAL perps in terrorist attacks are not about to give
Bush a reason to defend his reason for staying in the ME.
They know the longer we are there with no attacks,
the less support the public will give the "war" and his
banal banter about winning the war on terra.

BHN

[LoKnLoD]

4. so who is the brown skinned person they will

"catch" to show that * is protecting us against terra?

[Jack from Charlotte]

15. Call in The Brits. They'll find him.*

[KamaAina]

5. "Unaware of the threat until alerted by a reporter"?!

A reporter?!

Wow, I'm feeling safer already! How about you? :sarcasm:

[LiberalEsto]

6. The phone call has been traced to a cell phone

owned by someone named K. Rove.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. Yup. nt

[jedicord]

7. But... but... didn't * say this morning that they were averting attacks?

I'm confused! :smoke:

[cal04]

9. isn't this interesting.

this guy is such a jerk

New York officials are increasing security on city subways after word of a “credible security threat” to the city's transit system, Rep. Peter King said Thursday.

King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said, "Obviously, this is a significant threat."

He said he got his information from New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/353145p-301090c.html

[choie]

10. they are such bastards

It is obvious to me, a New Yorker, that this is absolute bullshit. The shit is going to hit the fan, Bush makes one of his harem-scarem speeches warning us about the "islamo-fascists", and there it is - a "credible" threat has turned up from a "believable" source. The Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah was Tuesday and Wednesday - why is this coming out now? Anything to avert attention from the Rove/Bush scandal. And the media falls for it - as do the american people. These people make me fucking sick!

[npincus]

14. BINGO

[LoKnLoD]

11. Tinfoil time

I read somewhere on the net they were going to MIHOP a terror incident on Oct 4, guess they had to delay it to coincide with *'s bullshit speech.

:tinfoilhat: