Not what anyone wants to hear with the 9/11 Anniversary coming up:
- A "specific, credible" threat has emerged surrounding the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, U.S. officials said Thursday.
But they emphasized that there was a great deal of uncertainty about the threat and said they were acknowledging it out of an abundance of caution. NBC News said police in New York City and Washington had been alerted.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said late Thursday 9/11 commemorations would go on as planned under heightened police presence already boosted for the weekend.
Recent intelligence, obtained within the past day, and originating from the tribal areas of Pakistan, advised the United States of a plan to set off car or truck bombs in Washington or New York around the time of the 9/11 anniversary, officials told NBC News.
We assume Washington DC is always on alert and Manhattan is going to locked down tighter than a drum. That leaves a lot of open space elsewhere, but a limited number of high-density, high-value-type targets around. And with a boatload of supervisors going to "radiation detection" classes this past week, one has to wonder what isn't being said out loud.