Al-Qaeda targets Brooklyn Bridge and trains
Terrorist Plotting| Event Details | |||
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 | Primary Organization | Al-Qaeda | |
| Center of Gravity | United States | |
| Second Location | Pakistan | |
| Plot Started | Early 20021 | |
| Plot Ended | March 20031 | |
| Connected | Iyman Faris1, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed | |
 | Connected | Majid Khan | |
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| Narrative and Notes | |||
| Reliable | Khalid Shaikh Mohammed tasked Iyman Faris, a naturalized American citizen working for al-Qaeda, to study the feasibility of using gas cutters to cut through the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge. He was also tasked to buy equipment to derail a train in the Washington, D.C., area. Faris scouted the Brooklyn Bridge and determined it was unlikely such an attack would work. The plot fell apart when Mohammed was detained in March 2003; Faris surrendered to authorities shortly thereafter.1,2 | |
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| 1United States vs. Iyman Faris, indictment. | |||
| 2"Detainee Biographies," press release, Director of National Intelligence, Sept. 6, 2006. | |||
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