of the u.s. for a future terrorist attack planned for 25 december in new york. the two-page report was vague and said a test run was planned for late they re evening. the extremists allegedly planned to smuggle unknown components of unspecified explosion i device on cargo flight from nairobi airport to england where they d be bound for new york city. the report stated the the final target of the attack was not known, but extremist members discussed restaurant and nightclubs this new york city. as for connections to the failed bombing in christmas day when umar farouk abdulmutallab carried a bomb packed in his underwear, federal and u.s. intelligence officials did not draw conclusions. but the documents raise the question. were other plots out there? intelligent official told fox to his knowledge chatter
america, let them worry about security. you go on and live your lives. but as you do, if you see something that bothers you, that raises the hair on the back of your neck, we want to know. now, there is a consequence to this. one is that the police hear about things that are genuinely worrisome. the other is that they are very busy now chasing a lot of things that turn out to be not hazardous at all. we went through this again last night, brian, with a potential hazardous material on a cargo flight from egypt to the u.s. the security scanners there picked up something, they thought it was bad, they pulled it off, it turned out to be completely harmless. i talked to the police chief just across the river here in virginia in arlington who said he gets a lot of calls from people saying someone is taking pictures of the bridges. yes, the police have to run that down a lot more, but they would rather hear that than not hear about the thing that truly is troubling and that could lead to an a