NYPD: Limo Bomb Favored by al-Qaida Op (AP)

[Eugene]

NYPD: Limo Bomb Favored by al-Qaida Op


Friday November 17, 2006 5:16 PM

By TOM HAYS

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - An al-Qaida operative conducting surveillance on U.S. soil
in 2000 favored using a limousine packed with explosives or a hijacked oil
tanker truck to attack financial institutions in Manhattan and New Jersey,
police officials said.

"The most obvious technique to utilize, that comes to mind ... would be a
limousine in the VIP underground car park,'' the operative, Dhiren Barot,
wrote in a memo about the Prudential Building in Newark, N.J.

Police say Barot was fixated on the black sedans regularly used by corporate
executives in New York because they were given easy access to parking
around corporate areas.

The memo was quoted during a New York Police Department briefing Thursday
on terror threats for private security officials from Wall Street firms and
other businesses. The memo and briefing shed more light on the designs of
Barot, a 34-year-old British convert to Islam who was sentenced to life in
prison in Britain last week after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit
mass murder.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6221916,00.html

[NOLADEM]

1. Cool. BAN THEM.

HAHA

[soleft]

2. This is why I had to have my freaking bag scanned this am

I've been using a rolling back back for a few weeks to haul my gym stuff because have shoulder problems.

Normally in the building where I work they scan visitors bags. Today they made me have my bag scanned and when I asked why they said there was a meeting yesterday.

Meanwhile, the front of the building is under construction while they install steel pipes as barrier along the sidewalks - we used to have potted plants, now we have still tubes protruding form the ground.