New York subway threat was a hoax, security sources admit

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1590005,00.html

The alleged terror threat that sparked a big security alert on New York's trains and subway last week turned out to be a hoax concocted by an unreliable US informant in Iraq, it emerged yesterday.

Uniformed and undercover police descended on the city's subway system on Friday after what was described as a "specific threat" that a terror cell was planning to explode bombs concealed in pushchairs, suitcases and rucksacks. At one point a section of Penn Station was sealed off as security staff wearing chemical hazard suits investigated a "soupy green substance" found in a Pepsi bottle. It turned out be a cleaning substance.

But security sources yesterday told CNN that an informant in Iraq had admitted giving false information. Law enforcement officials said last week that the person who passed along the New York tip also gave information which led to the arrests of three al-Qaida suspects in Musayyib, south of Baghdad, said to have links to the alleged plot.

But yesterday government sources said the three men had been interviewed and two underwent lie detector tests showing they knew nothing about such a plan.

Musta been one of them foreign fighters. You know, the ones who wear them cami uniforms and live in that thar Green Zone.

The informant was a person that had provided info before regarding Insurgent activities and had been correct on many occassions but incorrect on others. He was a paid informant. They gave him a lie detector test on this story and found that he was lying about this report. They did pay him and let him go but now they cannot locate him.