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New York subway threat a hoax stemming from false intelligence provided by Pakistani informant trying to misguide – was that Al-Queda’s plot?
Terror hoaxes are very common these days. It does not help fight against terror. It just makes people wonder if any of these terror warnings is not a hoax! It might be a master plan of Al-Queda terrorists! Their plans may be to fool authorities though implanting dual agents and making people feel that these terror warnings are useless in the first place!
The subway terrorist threat that gripped New York last weekend was a hoax stemming from false intelligence provided by a normally reliable informant, US law enforcement officials were quoted as saying.
According to newspaper and television reports, the unidentified officials said the informant -- believed to be from Pakistan -- had admitted leading investigators astray about a plot to bomb the New York subway system.
The threat, which was unusually specific as to time and place, was taken very seriously by city officials who issued a high alert and flooded the subway network with extra police and National Guard troops.
The informant had fingered three men in Iraq as being behind the plot, but their subsequent capture and interrogation revealed no links to any plan or any known terrorist group, CNN quoted law enforcement sources as saying.
He also admitted to fabricating a story about another individual who had made his way into the United States to help lay the ground for the alleged bomb plot.
"The threat has washed out," the New York Post quoted a senior law enforcement source as saying. "If there was something going on, it was disrupted."
The informant had fingered three men in Iraq as being behind the plot, but their subsequent capture and interrogation revealed no links to any plan or any known terrorist group, CNN quoted law enforcement sources as saying.
He also admitted to fabricating a story about another individual who had made his way into the United States to help lay the ground for the alleged bomb plot.
"The threat has washed out," the New York Post quoted a senior law enforcement source as saying. "If there was something going on, it was disrupted."
News that the threat was based on bogus information will increase the pressure on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his police commissioner, Ray Kelly, who have already been criticized for overreacting.
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