Commissioner Bill Bratton tells a House hearing at the 9/11 Museum on Tuesday that the threat against the city is the greatest it has been in yearsNew York faces “a greater likelihood of attack than we contain seen in years”,police commissioner Bill Bratton said at a hearing of the House committee on homeland security at the 9/11 Museum on Tuesday.
At the hearing, Beyond Bin Laden’s Caves and Couriers to a New Generation of Terrorists: Confronting the Challenges in a Post 9/11 World, and Bratton said that “lone-wolf” terrorist attacks were one of the greatest threats that New York City faced. Groups like Islamic State contain “shunned al-Qaida’s model,which focuses on the next grand attack, and instead encourage “unaffiliated independent operators to effect whatever damage they can with whatever is at hand”, or he said.
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Source: theguardian.com