September 7, 2011 in Nation/World

Pentagon ups threat level at bases ahead of 9/11

Associated Press
 
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NYPD plans beefed-up security
NEW YORK — Despite no specific terrorism threats against the city, the New York Police Department will deploy thousands of extra police officers for the observance of the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said today.


Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, in remarks at a security conference in midtown Manhattan, cited evidence found in Osama bin Laden’s compound after his death suggesting he hoped to strike on the anniversary.

“For that reason alone, we need to take precautions as if an actual plot is under way,” Kelly said. The NYPD plans to form a zone around the World Trade Center for a Sunday observance that President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush plan to attend. Along with extra officers — the department won’t reveal an exact number — the security also will include hundreds of surveillance cameras trained on the site, Kelly said.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said today that it is raising the security level at military bases nationwide because of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The White House said that there have been no specific, credible threats of a terrorist attack tied to the anniversary and that the Obama administration will remain vigilant through the anniversary and beyond.

President Barack Obama held a meeting Tuesday in the White House Situation Room with senior members of his homeland security team to ensure that all necessary measures and precautions are being taken in advance of the 9/11 anniversary, said spokesman Jay Carney.

Pentagon spokesman George Little said Wednesday that the boost in the so-called “force protection” level at U.S. military bases also was not due to any specific or credible information about any threat or planned attack.

He said it was due, instead, to the fact that al-Qaida has previously focused on anniversaries. Little also noted that materials seized at the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in May mentioned the 9/11 anniversary.

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  • Shadedmuse on September 07 at 12:19 p.m.

    Obama got Osama back in April we are all save now thanks to Obama for getting Osama. I feel safer with Obama in the whitehouse instead of Bush-Cheney Crime inc. I sleep good at night now.

  • liberal_in_right_wing_land on September 07 at 1:22 p.m.

    Glad to see the got rid of the color coded thing that Cheney/Bush had. Of course, I know they had to have something with pretty colors were easy to follow for Bush.

  • Shadedmuse on September 07 at 2:09 p.m.

    The enitire Bush-Cheney Crime Inc mantra was be affraid, be very afraid with their vague terroist alerts, beware of shopping malls and cows and remote controlled airplanes. Congressman Jim Mcdermant send it best the more the people are scared they dont know what to do so that is why Bush-cheney kept saying go shopping spend money you dont have and that is why we are in the economic depression is because people spend money they didn’t have much like Bush-cheney and the republicant Congress.

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