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[Stephanie]

Thanks George.








Terror scare rattles city
Police raid tour bus & shut Penn Station

BY TAMER EL-GHOBASHY, TONY SCLAFANI, WARREN WOODBERRY JR.
and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

New York was fear city yesterday as heavily armed police swarmed a double-decker bus packed with tourists in Times Square and later shut down Penn Station after an irate passenger said he had a bomb.

In a dramatic sign of the city's edginess since the London transit bombings, cops evacuated buildings, shut midtown streets and forced about 60 terrified tourists to march off the double-decker bus, with their hands up, in the heart of Broadway.

Cops in riot gear handcuffed a group of apparently harmless South Asian-looking men with British accents after a jittery tour bus worker reported they seemed suspicious.

The men were forced to kneel on the sidewalk, with their hands bound behind their backs, between 50th and 51st Sts. in front of the Winter Garden theater on a sunny summer Sunday with the city packed with tourists. <more>



Five tourists kneel in handcuffs on
Broadway between 50th and 51st Sts. after
being ordered off Gray Line tour bus in
Times Square yesterday. They were later
released and resumed their trips aboard
another Gray Line bus.

[Eric J in MN]

1. But they had backpacks.

We're not allowed to carry backpacks or wear coats in July anymore.

From the Daily News article:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/331264p-283131c.html

A Gray Line dispatcher called 911 and told cops the men had backpacks and their pockets "stuffed" - a possible warning sign of suicide bombers, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.

[Eric J in MN]

2. On the bright side, the NY police didn't kill anyone during

these incidents today, which is more than can be said for the London police a few days ago.


From the UK's TImes Online:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1707480,00.html


By far the most controversial claim comes from a number of witnesses who have cast doubt on police statements that they shouted a warning or identified themselves to the suspect before opening fire.

Lee Ruston, 32, who was on the platform, said that he did not hear any of the three shout “police” or anything like it. Mr Ruston, a construction company director, said that he saw two of the officers put on their blue baseball caps marked “police” but that the frightened electrician could not have seen that happen because he had his back to the officers and was running with his head down.

Mr Ruston remembers one of the Scotland Yard team screaming into a radio as they were running. Mr Ruston thought the man that they were chasing “looked Asian” as he tumbled on to a waiting Northern Line train.

Less than a minute later Mr Menezes was pinned to the floor of the carriage by two men while a third officer fired five shots into the base of his skull.

Again, Mr Ruston says that no verbal warning was given.

[AlamoDemoc]

3. I couldn't help notice the picture in the background

the two woman making faces. odd!

[Stephanie]

5. That's what Bushbots look like when they see this story on tv.

It's all a funny joke to them. Terror, torture, treason. Get over it! Move on.

[AlamoDemoc]

11. Yeah, I also noticed this from the article;

"Cops in riot gear handcuffed a group of apparently harmless South Asian-looking men with British accents.."


On edit: Speachless!

[Stephanie]

12. Something is definitely up. They have the town locked down.

I went by the pier the other night where people are out jogging and walking dogs and the party boats leave from there - the ones where you cruise around the harbor for a while. And usually they bouncers there checking IDs as the kids get on, but this week they had bouncers, two cops and one national guard. For a party boat of teenagers all dressed up for dancing.

[AlamoDemoc]

13. I guess we're not in Kansas anymore

[Pallas180]

4. Jesus Christ. This is madness. Why handcuff them before

patting them down to see if they had weapons or whatever?

[Bluebear]

6. FoxNews: Happy tourists spontaneously do "YMCA" dance on bus

[hippiegranny]

8. you beat me to it by a minute or so!

onion minds.

[Bluebear]

9. Let's write for them!

:toast:

[hippiegranny]

7. the YMCA song?

On top of the bus? It IS bad when it has come to this.

[LuCifer]

10. BUT THE TERRORIST HATE US FOR OUR FREEDUMBS!!!!!!

And now that we are all but in a goddamn police state, THAT SHOULD NO LONGER BE A PROBLEM! Thank you "President" Butthole!

Lu Cifer, WHERE'S OSAMA!??!?!

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. But don't forget, the world is safer without Saddam in power!

[yurbud]

15. kick & rec: won't be too many brown tourist in NYC now

Hillbilly Hitler art:



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