A spokesman for the New York Police Department said in a statement Wednesday that there is not a “current or specific threat” against New York City, after Times Square appeared in an Islamic State video, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Stephen Davis said in the statement the footage that appeared in the video, some of which is dated, “reaffirms the message that New York City remains a top terrorist target,” according to the Journal.
The video shows a suicide bomber preparing for an attack, sliced between images of Times Square. The video ends with the bomber pulling the bomb’s trigger as the camera fades to black, according to The New York Post.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris, France over the weekend that left at least 129 people dead.
Ugh Chris Matthews is already hyperventilating about this. I wish these fucking chicken hawks would stop soiling themselves so easily. We seemed to get over the horrendous attacks of 9/11 here in NY better than the he-man tough guys of the right-wing did in East Bumfuck, Alabammy.
I remember going out to bars and restaurants here in Manhattan a week or so after 9/11 while on TV we were watching yokels in Mississippi wrapping their houses in saran wrap because they were afraid of anthrax attacks.
In France, they are going out to cafes and nightlife as a show of defiance against the terrorists, while our right-wing is pissing their pants in fear. “They are coming for us,” Chris Christie was quoted as saying today.
Fucking pathetic.
You said it. The only thing to fear is fear itself, said FDR. The GOP would not exist without fear mongering and crisis creation. They are our own home grown terrorists, seeking to create terror to empower themselves artificially. The nation should pay no attention to those (GOP) men behind the curtain!
While this is a serious issue, I couldn’t help imagining the NYPD coming across a bomber unconscious in an alley after being mugged and having his wallet stolen. Anti-terrorism indeed.
I’m glad New Yorkers have more intestinal fortitude than the asshats who seek to be Commander in Chief.
That started at the top. From day one, Oedipus Tex and President Cheney went in hiding at a “secret location,” every time there was the slightest danger. Contrast that with the French President and British PM.
I guess ISIS figured that no “specific threat” is even necessary. After all, they don’t want to give Christie and his fellow GOP pantswetters full-on heart attacks… the Kowardly Klown Kar Klan is just far too useful to ISIS.