Just weeks after New York was targeted for a reduction in funds to fight terror, a new book contains what officials say is the credible story of an aborted attempt by al Qaeda to launch a deadly cyanide gas attack on the New York subway system.
According to an except of the book "The One Percent Doctrine" by reporter Ron Suskind featured in Time magazine, a close al Qaeda informant told U.S. officials that Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, canceled the planned attack 45 days before its launch in January 2003. Al Zawahiri reportedly believed the plot wouldn't be deadly enough, despite evidence that it could have killed as many people as the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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This is the kind of thing the government should be worrying about instead of trying to listen in on 'terrorist' phone calls. Something needs to be done to control the terrorist concerns of this country but it seems no one in the White House knows what to do.
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