NYC Police Operations Back to Normal [View All]

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Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Police Department was reducing its extra security procedures Saturday, a day after an unsubstantiated radiological threat against the nation's largest city.

The NYPD had increased radiological monitoring and established checkpoints to examine vehicles in lower Manhattan and at other locations around the city Friday night. By noon Saturday, the department was scaling back its efforts on a relatively quiet August weekend, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne said. ~snip~

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6843881,00.html

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New York City maintains "radiological threat" alert
Sat 11 Aug 2007, 19:23 GMT

~snip~ The checkpoints went up Friday night and continued on Saturday at transit points into and out of Manhattan including the Holland tunnel, which connects lower Manhattan with New Jersey.

Police had initially said the increased security was in response to threats of a dirty bomb attack on Friday evening near 34th street, where the Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden, Penn Station and Macy's draw tourists and commuters.

But Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne clarified on Saturday the information the department received was not specific to that neighbourhood.

Uniformed police officers lined the streets by the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, scanning passing vehicles and questioning some drivers, most of whom seemed to find their presence reassuring. ~snip~

http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnN11310484.html


Israeli website sends US media into frenzy

High alert declared by New York Police following DEBKAfile report that al-Qaeda might be plotting to detonate a dirty bomb in city makes headlines in US media. 'Dirty bomb scare rocks city,' Daily News' main headline reads

Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 08.11.07, 18:41 / Israel News

WASHINGTON – The high alert declared by the New York Police on Friday night following a report on the Israeli website DEBKAfile that al-Qaeda might be plotting to detonate a dirty bomb in the city, made headline in the US media Saturday morning.

"Vague threat prompts steps by NY Police," the New York Times headline read. ~snip~

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3436274,00.html