The FBI and NYPD are hailing the arrests of four men in an alleged plot to bomb two synagogues in New York City. Officials say the men were also plotting to shoot down military planes at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, NY, with stinger missiles. Officials say the plan did not pose any real threat: the group had been infiltrated by government agents early on. For an update, we have WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly and M. J. Gohel, the executive director of the
Asia Pacific Foundation, an independent security and global terrorism think tank in London.
"It takes very little for a plot to go from aspirational to operational. Sometimes all they're waiting for are the weapons of the explosives."
—M.J. Gohel, of the Asia Pacific Foundation, on the recent alleged terrorist actions in New York
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