The al-Qaeda group once planned to demolish New York's Brooklyn Bridge, blow up grounded airliners with explosive-laden vans and derail passenger trains, Newsweek magazine reported. Quoting federal investigators who interrogated captured al-Qaeda operations chief Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the magazine said he told them he recruited a naturalized US citizen, a truck driver from Columbus, Ohio, named Lyman Farris, to assess several terrorist attacks in the US that never came off. One of them was to determine whether acetylene torches could be used to cut the cables supporting the Brooklyn Bridge, sending it crashing into the East River, the news weekly reported.
| Sounds like barracks-room BS'ing to me. They were also going to crash a plane into the Golden Gate bridge. They were also going to unbolt a bridge, presumably with a great, big pair of pliers. |
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