NY Mayor Says City won’t be Intimidated By ISIS

“We understand that we are a terrorist target”, Bratton said.

“The people of NY City will not be intimidated”. These and other events attract tens of millions of visitors each year.

The video mentions Times Square and purports to show an explosive device being put together and a bomber zipping his jacket over a suicide belt.

Bratton said the video was “nothing new”.

“While there is no current or specific threat to the city at this time, we will remain at a heightened state of vigilance and will continue to work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the entire intelligence community”, said Stephen Davis, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for public information. “And that’s why we have a critical response command that’s ready to immediately respond to any and all incidents”.

NY City Mayor Bill de Blasio stood in the middle of Times Square, Wednesday evening, to urge New Yorkers to go about their daily lives despite the threat of ISIS against the Big Apple.

The mayor’s statements escalate a feud between de Blasio and those Republicans who’ve called for blocking refugees from Syria following last week’s terror attacks in Paris. “It is the goal of terrorists to disrupt and intimidate our democratic society”.

A video released by ISIS on Thursday threatens new attacks in France, Italy, the United States and beyond. It warns that St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, as well as Milan’s Duomo and La Scala, could be terrorist targets.

Authorities called the latest video a rehash of the older one and nothing more than propaganda that the terrorist groups carry out.

Less than a week after attacks claimed by the group killed 129 people in Paris, an IS video showed a man preparing a suicide vest and fingering its trigger, interlaced with footage of New York’s Times and Herald Squares. You’re going to see – there are cameras in lots of different places.

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