Another Terrorist Attack In New York City Coming?

I was fortunate to have spent part of my US Navy career in military intelligence. The training and mental discipline prepared you for many things in life. One thing you learned to do was to look at some subtle event and movement as a predictor of something much bigger to come. Why did the US authorities spend all of that money to do the mission over New York City on a Sunday? Did they spend a lot of money for a routine photo mission when they could get all the same details from satellites of Google earth? I think not. I suspect they see another attack coming.

Military ‘Photo Mission’ Over Hudson Gives Wall Street Jitters
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By Peter S. Green and John Hughes

April 27 (Bloomberg) -- A jumbo airplane swooping over New York Harbor escorted by fighter jets for a Pentagon photo opportunity sent Wall Street workers running from windows.

Three military planes, two F-16s and a VC-25, the military version of theBoeing Co. 747, flew over the New York metropolitan area from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on a photo mission, Jim Peters, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman, said in an interview.

The planes flew along the Hudson River, near the site of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

The mission was coordinated in advance with the FAA and New York City Police Department, and other agencies were notified, Peters said in an interview.

New York City’s Office of Emergency Management said the planes were part of an “approved federal activity,” Chris Gilbride, a spokesman, said. He said he didn’t know which city agencies had been informed of the event beforehand.

A spokesman for the North American Air Defense Command and the U.S. military’s Northern Command said they couldn’t answer questions and referred calls to the FAA.

To contact the reporters on this story: Peter S. Green in New York atpsgreen@bloomberg.net; John Hughes in Washington atjhughes5@bloomberg.net