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NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot

The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A car rocketing down an avenue in Manhattan's dense East Village swerved out of control, plowed down a sidewalk and smashed through a storefront flower stand Wednesday morning, injuring eight people, witnesses and officials ...

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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, left, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, and Senate Co-Leader Dean Skelos, R-Rockville Centre, along with Senate Co-Leader Jeff Klein (not pictured) have agreed to a deal to expand casino gambling in Upstate New York. They are shown in a file photo from earlier this ...
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NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaeda's NY stock exchange bombing plot

The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008.

FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE which is just half a mile away from the 9/11 terror strike site World Trade Centre, ABC News reports.

According to the report, the surveillance agencies including the NSA have been defending the alleged 'snooping' programme carried out on the US citizens' tracking their web activities and phone records.

The US officials have claimed that the surveillance programme has helped the security officials to stop more than 50 terrorist plots over 20 countries.

The NYSE plot disclosure centers around an auto parts dealer in Kansas city named Khalid Ouazzani who pleaded guilty in 2010 for his role in a conspiracy to provide funding to al-Qaeda.

Ouzzani had helped uncover the abandoned plan by becoming a cooperating witness about talks with extremists regarding bombing the symbolic heart of America's capitalist system. ...