FWIW, the Brooklyn Bridge was closed for over an hour this morning due to a suspicious package at 5:00am this morning!

In the end, no bomb!

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Brooklyn Bridge Is Briefly Closed as New York Tightens Security

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/ny...2CND-SECU.html

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Qaeda Tip Spurred Alert in New York

he source of a tip this week that terrorists might strike at the Brooklyn Bridge or the Statue of Liberty was Abu Zubaydah, the highest-ranking Qaeda operative captured since Sept. 11, a senior law enforcement official said yesterday. That is one reason New York officials put the city on high alert and publicized details of the threat, something the Federal Bureau of Investigation never intended to do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/nyregion/23ALER.html

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