Man Is Said to Be Arrested in Bid to Kill Government Workers With Bomb
NY Times ^ | 11/20/11 | JOE GOLDSTEIN
Posted on November 20, 2011 6:55:31 PM EST by Nachum
The authorities have arrested a man who law enforcement officials believe was planning to build and detonate a bomb in New York with government workers as the target, a person briefed on the case said on Sunday.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly of the New York Police Department, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. were expected to announce the charges against the man at 7:30 p.m. at a news conference at City Hall.
The man was arrested within the last 24 hours.
The defendant in the case – whose identity could not be learned – had bought bomb-making materials and “began to build them,” said the person briefed on the case, who added that the Police Department had had the man under surveillance for about a year.
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