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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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Eleanor L. Potter Lurcock, 87, a life resident of Cicero, died Saturday, June 15, 2013, at her home. Born in Syracuse, she was a life resident of Cicero. She worked for New York Telephone Co., North Syracuse High School, Potter Insurance Agency and served as Cicero Town Clerk from 1972 to 1977, retiring from the Town of Cicero in ...
Missing Salina teen found Onondaga County sheriffs deputies say

Salina, NY -- A teenager who went missing for days was relocated and is unharmed, Onondaga County sheriff's deputies said. Nahkeem Davis, 15, from the town of Salina, was last seen Saturday June 1 at the corner of Geddes and Fayette streets, deputies said. On June 12, deputies asked the public for their help in finding the teen. Davis was found Saturday sleeping on the property of 800 ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Efforts to legalize professional mixed martial arts in New York have foundered again with the state Assembly's Democratic leaders refusing to allow a vote on the measure. The bill, passed by the Senate earlier this year, had 63 sponsors in the 150-member Assembly. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he's not opposed. Michael Whyland, spokesman for the Assembly Democratic ...
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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. ...