The terror plot that has New York and Washington on heightened alert today was reportedly personally orchestrated by Osama bin Laden’s successor as part of an effort to avenge the terror lord’s death.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s longtime deputy, personally recruited three terrorists to travel to the US to detonate car-bomb attacks to coincide with the tenth anniversary of 9/11, according to The Daily.
The attacks are al-Zawahiri’s pledged to avenge bin Laden’s death, ABC News reported.
Once here, the men “may have met up with a small cell or other suspects,” sources told The Daily.
All three operatives speak fluent English and two of them believed to be American citizens, the sources said.
The details of the plot come amid heightened security following the “credible” threat as police officers swarmed subway stations, bridges and tunnels in a show of force.
Bloomberg, who took the subway to City Hall this morning from his Upper East Side home, said, “We don’t want al Qaeda or any other organization … to take away the freedoms.”
The mayor, who took a downtown No. 5 train to work, added, “I’m going to do what I do every day.”
The Port Authority said it has increased police presence and bag checks at Kennedy, Newark and LaGuardia airports. The agency has also increased vehicle checks at all its bridges and tunnels.
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“I’m going to do what I do every day.”
Yes, have an escort of NYPD all around him.
That thing on his forehead looks like a target. If the target is missed but the bullet does its job, WHO CARES.
I would just aim anywhere between those ears….