Iran scouted NYC spots post-9/11, Congress told

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(AP) WASHINGTON — Authorities have interviewed at least 13 people since 2005 with ties to Iran's government who were seen taking pictures of New York City landmarks, a senior New York Police Department official said Wednesday.


Police consider these instances to be pre-operational surveillance, bolstering their concerns that Iran or its proxy terrorist group could be prepared to strike inside the United States, if provoked by escalating tensions between the two countries.


Mitchell Silber, the NYPD's director of intelligence analysis, told Congress that New York's international significance as a terror target and its large Jewish population make the city a likely place for Iran and Hezbollah to strike. Silber testified before the House Homeland Security about the potential threat. Much of what Silber said echoed his previous statements on the potential threat, but he offered new details Wednesday about past activities in New York.


In May 2005, Silber said, tips led the NYPD to six people on a sight-seeing cruise who were taking pictures and movies of city landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge and Grand Central Terminal. In September 2008, police interviewed three people taking pictures of railroad tracks. And in September 2010, federal air marshals saw four people taking pictures and videos at a New York heliport. Interviews with law enforcement revealed that all were associated with the Iranian government, but they were ultimately released and never charged, Silber said.


U.S. officials long have worried that Iran would use Hezbollah to carry out attacks inside the United States. And Iran was previously accused in a disrupted plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. here last year, a plan interpreted in the U.S. intelligence community as a clear message that Iran is not afraid to carry out an attack inside this country.

Iran scouted NYC spots post-9/11, Congress told - CBS News

 

[Jos]

Tourists tend to take pictures

Mitchell Silber, the NYPD's director of intelligence analysis, told Congress that New York's international significance as a terror target and its large Jewish population make the city a likely place for Iran and Hezbollah to strike

Iran also has a "large Jewish population", the 2nd largest in the middle east, if however Iran was attacked I'm sure there would be some kind of retaliation

 

[eots]

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[Jos]

Is Mitchell Silber, the NYPD's director of intelligence analysis jewish too?

 

[Sallow]

Gosh..the war mucking for Iran continues.

It wasn't Iran or Iraq involved in 9/11..it was the Saudis.

 

[eots]

Gosh..the war mucking for Iran continues.

It wasn't Iran or Iraq involved in 9/11..it was the Saudis.

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[Jos]

A former government space scientist has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after admitting he tried to sell space and defence secrets to Israel in what turned out to be an FBI sting operation.

Appearing in federal court in a prison jumpsuit yesterday, Stewart Nozette said he was 'paying for a fatal lack of judgment.'

'I accept full responsibility,' Nozette told U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman.

Prosecutors and Nozette's lawyers agreed to the 13-year sentence, with credit for the two years that Nozette has spent behind bars since his arrest.

Read more: NASA scientist jailed for 13 years for offering to sell state secrets to Israel | Mail Online

Nozette told his espionage contact that his parents were Jewish, and therefore claimed a right to return under Israel's Law of Return. He also asked allegedly for two million dollars and a passport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Nozette

 

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[freedombecki]

Tourists tend to take pictures
Iran also has a "large Jewish population", the 2nd largest in the middle east, if however Iran was attacked I'm sure there would be some kind of retaliation

Yes, but they don't take aeronautics classes learning to fly but not how to land.

 

[Jos]