New York City
Al Qaida agents hoped to kill thousands of Americans by releasing cyanide gas in New York City subway cars, according to a new book by journalist Ron Suskind. For reasons unknown, the 2003 plot was aborted by al Qaida’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, Suskind reports in The One Percent Doctrine. Officials reportedly learned of the plot, after it was called off, from a high level al Qaida informant. New York politicians seized on the revelation to renew their protests over the Department of Homeland Security’s recent move to cut New York’s anti-terrorism funding. “This is just more evidence that what Homeland Security did to us was terribly misguided,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, “and just wrong.”
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