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NYPD probing if subway plotter in US
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said on Sunday authorities were investigating the possibility that a plotter in a planned attack on the city's subway was in the United States.Asked on Fox News Sunday whether a suspected plotter had made it into the United States, Kelly said: "That's certainly part of the investigation, yes." He said operations were continuing outside the United States to learn more about the suspected plot, and that people were being interrogated. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security sent a bulletin to New York City officials on Thursday that warned a team of "terrorist operatives" planned to set off remote-controlled bombs hidden in briefcases or baby strollers in the subway on Sunday. "A team of terrorist operatives, some of whom may travel to or who may be in the New York City area, may attempt to execute an attack on the New York City subway on or about October 9, 2005," the joint FBI/Homeland Security bulletin said. Federal authorities "have doubts about the credibility of the threat" and passed it along "to provide increased awareness out of an abundance of caution," the bulletin said. The threat alert was based on an uncorroborated claim to Iraqi authorities that prompted raids by U.S. and Iraqi forces and resulted in two suspects being taken into custody in Iraq, U.S. officials told Reuters. A third was being sought, and the New York Times reported that he had been detained, also in Iraq. Kelly said New York would remain in a heightened state of alert until U.S. intelligence authorities in Iraq can pin down the credibility of the threat. "Operations are going on overseas that we believe will give us a better sense of the credibility of this threat in the short term. We'll be governed to a large extent as to what comes to use from the intelligence community overseas." Kelly said. Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-10-09 |
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