Terror expert warns NYC still a target
Five years after the attack on the World Trade Center, Islamic extremists — including members of Hezbollah — still view the city as a prime target for another terrorist strike, police say. The threat “is a permanent condition, and in all likelihood will worsen,” the New York Police Department’s top counterterrorism official, Richard Falkenrath, told an audience of private security executives Thursday. “It’s a very sobering conclusion and I don’t reach it at all happily, but I do think it is true,” he said. Full Story