Riiiiight?
"High Security Planned for the Pope’s Visit"
"Portions of the sky above, the water around, and streets all over New York will be sealed off next week when Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the city.
As a religious leader and a head of state, recently accused by Osama bin Laden of leading a crusade against Muslims, the pope presents city and federal law enforcement authorities with a security challenge of considerable complexity.
Yeah, and CUI BONO from a war between Christians and Muslims?!
I see another CIA/Mossad false-flag if anything happens!
Planning began in October for a three-day trip that will involve visits to some of the city’s biggest and most high-profile locations: ground zero, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Yankee Stadium, the United Nations and the Park East Synagogue — which will constitute “the first-ever visit by a pope to a synagogue in the United States,” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said on Thursday.
All the locations will be swept for bombs. Some other measures will be visible: scuba divers in the East River, counter-snipers patrolling rooftops, helicopters, and armored limousines.
Other measures will not be visible, like undercover detectives mingling in crowds or officers carrying pager-sized radiation detectors on their belts....
Uh-oh! I'm SMELLING AGENT PROVOCATEURS, readers!
Any pope, past or present, can be seen as a lightning rod for religious and political debate, with supporters of various causes seeking to bend his stance toward a particular view on, for example, matters like the war in Iraq.
“Any time a major world figure visits a city of 8 million people, there are enormous complexities, but New York is used to this,” said Michael A. L. Balboni, New York State’s deputy secretary for public safety, who has offered the city help from the state, including communications vans, specialized National Guard units and state troopers.
“What has us focused with this trip, is the post-9/11 paradigm of threat information along with the iconic structures and high visibility targets,” Mr. Balboni said.
Yup, the justifications all track back... nearly everything does... to that frikkin' abominable lie of 9/11!
Mr. Kelly said law enforcement officials were aware of an audiotape of Osama bin Laden that surfaced last month charging the pope with leading a “new crusade” against Muslims....
Officials at several levels of government said they had not identified any specific, credible threats to the city or the pope...."
