ISIS Video Threatens New York Landmarks
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said on Thursday that it was aware of an ISIS propaganda video that features images of Times Square and threats to launch suicide attacks on America's largest city.
"While some of the video footage is not new, the video reaffirms the message that New York City remains a top terrorist target," the NYPD told CNN in a statement. "While there is no current or specific threat to the city at this time, we will remain at a heightened state of vigilance and will continue to work with the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the entire intelligence community to keep the city of New York safe."
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, meanwhile, urged his city's residents to go about their lives and not allow such threats to affect their normal ways of life, the news channel noted.
"The people of New York City will not be intimidated," de Blasio said on Wednesday. "We understand it is the goal of terrorists to intimidate and disrupt our democratic society. We will not submit to their wishes."
John Miller, the NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, said a similar tape had already been released in April.
"This is an old video that was kind of rehashed," Miller said. "This is ISIS doing what ISIS and al Qaeda and terrorist groups do, which is propaganda."
The New York-focused video, meanwhile, featured several men, some speaking in Arabic and French, congratulating the group over the murders in France and promising that the terror group will prevail, Fox News noted.
ISIS, which controls large swatch of land across Syria and Iraq, launched a deadly terror attack that killed at least 129 and wounded dozens more in Paris on Nov. 13. Following the Paris incidents, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had already directed state agencies to "enhance their preparedness," he said in a statement.
"Remember that the terrorists' goal is to let fear win -- New Yorkers never have, and we never will," Cuomo insisted.
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