Federal and local officials tightened security Friday in New York and Washington as investigators probed a possible al-Qaeda plot to detonate a vehicle-borne bomb around Sunday's 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
After U.S. officials received word of what they called a credible but unconfirmed threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York or Washington, police and other law enforcement agents in the two cities stepped up checks of such sites. In New York, police set up vehicle checkpoints, swept parking garages for bombs, towed illegally parked cars and posted officers with helmets, bulletproof vests and assault rifles at train and subway stations. In Washington, Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier put officers on 12-hour shifts indefinitely in accordance with a plan that Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) said she has been working on for eight months.
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Dan Zak 10 Sep, 2011
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