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Ray Kelly praises the NYPD and says ‘terror threat will be with us for a long time’ – VIDEO

Fed bomb plot is 15th serious threat in NYC since 9/11

DARA KELLY,

IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Friday, October 19, 2012, 7:50 AM

Updated Friday, October 19, 2012, 1:03 PM

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New York Police Department Commissions, Irish American, Ray Kelly

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NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has said that New York City continues to be a target for terrorists in the wake of the attempted attack of the Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan.

Kelly gave credit to FBI and other law enforcement agencies for thwarting the bomb threat, but reminded people the threat of terrorism isn’t going away anytime soon.

“I think this means that New York continues to be very much in the mind frame… of terrorists,” Kelly said. “This individual came here with the express purpose of committing a terrorist act. He was motivated by al-Qaida. So we see this threat as being with us for a long time.”

On Wednesday morning, 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was arrested by federal authorities following a sting operation.

The Bangladesh native was in the process of trying to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb in front of the Federal Reserve Bank on Liberty Street.

"Unbeknownst to Nafis, one of the individuals he attempted to recruit was actually a source for the FBI," court documents stated.

“Clearly, if you read the complaint, what this shows is this individual came here for the purpose of doing a terrorist act,” Kelly said. “He came here in January of this year. He gets a student visa under the pretext of being a student in a college in Missouri, and he comes here again with the avowed purpose of committing some sort of jihad here in the United States. He goes to the New York Stock Exchange, he sees the significant security there, and he shifts his target to the Federal Reserve Bank.”

In the wake of the attack, Kelly said the Federal Reserve will be watched more closely as a target.

“It makes the Federal Reserve Bank – it gives it a position, I should say – on our list of iconic targets here in New York City,” Kelly said.

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Seanmor | Oct 29, 2012, 07:00 AM EDT

The federal authorities could reduce the threat of terrorism in this country by being more careful about granting visas to certain applicants.

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thetint | Oct 20, 2012, 06:11 AM EDT

This story being put out by Kelly is completely unbelievable. Who arrives in a country in January looking for a course which won’t start until September?

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jetsnoone | Oct 20, 2012, 12:55 AM EDT

We are at war with a slick enemy whose foot soldiers don't wear uniforms... they immigrate, and infiltrate. In our stupidity, or naivete, we allow them to enter the country on a daily basis....oh, most don't have murderous intentions and most just want to earn a living. But a small few do intnd murder on a massive scale....The answer is to ban them all, but that would injure the feelings of America's liberals. Their feelins are, unbeknownst to them, as suicidal for all of us. Absolutely no Moslem immigrants is the winning card, but America does not have the guts to use it. Eventually, some nut will get his evil done, many innocent Americans will die, and the liberals will say it had to be done that way.... oh, by the way, Americans could be banned from their countries in a heart beat if that was what their security leaders desired... not ours, so sad.

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