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Terror Threat At Indias 3Cs Mall Posted: 15 May 2009 10:37 PM PDT There is an unusual calm, amid hectic police activity, in the Lajpat Nagar market these days. The popular 3Cs Mall and the entire area around it has been turned into a fortress after the Delhi Police received specific security inputs that the building would be blown up in the next 15 days. According to sources in the Southeast district police, they got inputs from intelligence agencies about a possible threat to the mall a few days ago. After the message was forwarded to the local police, they cordoned off the entire market. Intelligence agencies reportedly told the police that the Army had recovered a sketch of the mall from a few terrorists arrested by it recently and that their interrogation revealed a threat to the mall. The police sources said the present security arrangements were under the direct supervision of an assistant commissioner of police. A senior officer is present at the site round the clock. via Terror threat: 3Cs Mall sealed. This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

Homeland Security Terror Drill Planned for NY’s Ground Zero Posted: 15 May 2009 08:51 AM PDT Hundreds of New York police and firefighters will conduct an emergency drill on Sunday at the World Trade Center rail station, according to city officials’ announcement. The “major, multi-agency emergency response drill” will require closing for five-and-a-half hours the PATH Station at the World Trade Center, which links southern Manhattan and the New Jersey town of Newark. Several streets in the neighborhood of lower Manhattan — the location of Ground Zero in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — will be closed to pedestrians and others will be barred to drivers. Emergency vehicles will arrive in the area “with lights and sirens as they would in an actual emergency,” the statement from the Port Authority and transport authorities said. “The drill will begin at 8 am (0400 GMT) and involve hundreds of emergency responders…. The drill will last for approximately two hours.” Source This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

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