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Big Apple braces for subway attack
Thursday, October 6, 2005 Posted at 7:18 PM EDT
Associated Press
New York - New York City officials stepped up mass transit security
Thursday, saying they had received a credible threat the subway system
could be the target of a terrorist attack in coming days.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the threat originated overseas and was the
most specific terrorist threat city officials had received to date. No
one in New York has been arrested or detained, he said.
A law-enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said
the threat is "specific to place, time and method" and involved a
bombing.
Some officials in Washington appeared to be taking the threat less
seriously.
"I've spoken with top-level authorities in Washington and the threat,
while specific in terms of location, does not have the highest level of
credibility or corroboration," U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, a New
York Democrat, said in a statement.
"Nonetheless, in a post 9/11 world you cannot be too careful."
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly urged the public to report
suspicious people or activities. Police planned to look through bags,
briefcases, baby strollers and luggage in a large-scale search of the
mass transit system.
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