And in other news, the New York Post has a cold splash of reality in this morning’s paper. The NYPD is worried about the JV team striking in Manhattan:
The NYPD is quietly prepping for a potential ISIS assault in Manhattan http://t.co/tbhTKBHyml pic.twitter.com/O5sS8lbySH
— New York Post (@nypost) March 4, 2015
Oh. Boy.
An excerpt from the Post:
The NYPD has quietly spent the last six months making preparations for a potential ISIS assault in Manhattan, which police fear could be similar to the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, sources told The Post.
Cops have been trained to deal with coordinated bombings and shootings, as in the four-day terror assault that killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, the sources said.
And now it’s not so quiet:
@nypost ….how about not talking about it
— TJ Adelman Pituch (@tjp7118) March 4, 2015
https://twitter.com/Ska2Dancehall/status/573113728255844352
https://twitter.com/Madberry77/status/573113683519279104
Oh great “@nypost: The NYPD is quietly prepping for a potential ISIS assault in Manhattan http://t.co/2iqTVgcpll pic.twitter.com/LWIGILd5ww”
— Shirl (@Sbeebxo) March 4, 2015
And this is wishful thinking:
@nypost Isis doesn't do terrorism. Thy r in a Ground war fighting for Syria and Iraq
— Vic Damone (@vicdamone1979) March 4, 2015
How quickly are the events of Mumbai, Sydney, Belgium and Paris forgotten?
Here’s a reminder of the aftermath of Mumbai, for example:
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Flashback: Just last week, there was a disagreement between DNI James Clapper and SoS John Kerry as to the threat posed by ISIS, with Kerry claiming, “despite ISIL,” “we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans,”
Sounds like the NYPD is going with Clapper’s view that “2014 Most Lethal Year for Global Terrorism on Record.”
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