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Well, turns out the Holland Tunnel wasn’t the target after all, according to the NYT. But what does that matter?

Representative Peter T. King, the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said today that even though the Holland Tunnel was not the target this time, the tunnel has been a target of terrorists before, including a plot against the Hudson River tunnels and other New York landmarks uncovered after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.

By that logic, we’d better keep a close eye on, say, Pearl Harbor.

Think it’s time to compare the number of announced terrorism cases in pre-election 2004, post-election 2005, and, now, pre-election 2006?

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