Sunday, August 12, 2007


Aug. 12, 2007 (Xinhua News Agency delivered by Newstex) -- New York police scales down security precautions

NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- New York police scaled down security precautions Saturday after beefing up counterterrorism patrol in response to an unsubstantiated terror threat involving a 'dirty bomb.'

The police had increased radiological monitoring and established checkpoints to examine vehicles in lower Manhattan and at other locations around the city on Friday night.

By noon Saturday, the department was scaling back its efforts on a relatively quiet August weekend, said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne.

The city did not increase its terror alert status at Level Orange in response to online chatter about a truck packed with radioactive material.

The New York Times reported Saturday that the heightened security was prompted by a report on an Israeli website regarding electronic chatter betweeen al-Qaida operatives.

The site, debka.com, alleged that monitors had intercepted Internet chatter suggesting that al-Qaida was planning a radioactive truck attack on American targets that included New York, Los Angeles and Miami.

Homeland Security Department officials said Friday that they had no reason to believe the comments presented a credible threat.

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