I Told You So!
City officials say, “I told you so”:
Posted: July 10th, 2006 | Filed under: Makes Jack Bauer Scream, "Dammit!"New York tunnels, not Midwest corn fields, once again top the terror hit list, proving federal dollars should be dolled out according to need, officials said yesterday.
“We said continuously that when you catch a terrorist and look at the map in his or her pocket it is always a map of New York. Not a map of some other place,” Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.
“New York City, Washington, D.C., a handful of other large cities in the country remain the targets for terrorists because they symbolize America,” the mayor said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the threat showed “New York still remains in the cross hairs of the terrorists.”
The commissioner bristled when a reporter asked whether the city leaked word of the threat to gain additional security funds.
“Totally untrue,” Kelly said.