Andrew Burton via Getty Images NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 18: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announces a new initiative for public housing for homeless people on November 18, 2015 in New York City.
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The video was released a week before the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and other holiday traditions in NY which attract around 60 million visitors, including the Christmas tree lighting at the Rockefeller Center.
ISIL has claimed credit for Friday’s attacks in Paris that killed 129 people in shootings and suicide bombings at a concert hall, restaurants and a soccer stadium in Paris. “We will not submit”.
The video, which runs for almost six minutes, includes a scene that appears to show a suicide bomber making preparations and zipping up a leather jacket. According to the NY Times, at least three dozen people in the US suspected of such ties have been under electronic surveillance for months.
This past April another similar video had been released.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and police Commissioner Bill Bratton told reporters the city of NY will not be intimidated, with de Blasio adding in a statement. New York’s Mayor and Police Commissioner know all that, and they held a press conference right in Times Square Wednesday night, and said nothing is going to change. “Offense, we want to be offense all the time, with our counterterrorism intelligence capabilities, defense, protecting facilities”, said Bratton. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that from the ISIS video, they surmised that the terrorists intend to strike at St. Peter’s Basilica and other historical monuments in Rome and Milan.
“But the world that we live in is unfortunately a world that generates fear but we can’t let it overwhelm us”.
Even though ISIS just threatened an attack on NY.
“When we see the video, we make note of it, but it’s like a lot of videos we’ve seen”, Miller said.
Talks began in February to create the fourth installment of the so-called New York/New York program, which would have split the responsibility between city and state for funding 12,000 units of housing.
Meantime, it’s still not clear what happened to the suspected mastermind of last week’s terror attacks in Paris following a police raid north of the city on Wednesday.
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“Maybe I’m more jittery”, said Jordan Veneman, sitting at La Colombe cafe in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood earlier in the week.
