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New York nuclear bomb threat – a cruel hoax

Heartless prank caller threatens 1 World Trade Center with nuclear bomb http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/prank-caller-threatens-freedom-tower-nuclear-bomb-article-1.1930215 The caller phoned in the threat to the city’s 911 system around 7 p.m. Friday, claiming a device was placed next to the building near Vesey St. in lower Manhattan. BY THOMAS TRACY   NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, September 6, 2014, 

A callous prank caller threatened to destroy 1 World Trade Center with a nuclear bomb Friday night — six days before the 13th anniversary of 9/11.

The caller phoned in the threat to the city’s 911 system at about 7 p.m., claiming the device was placed next to the building near Vesey St. in lower Manhattan.

Port Authority police and members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force raced over, but found nothing, law enforcement sources said.

The call was traced to Brooklyn, but no arrests had been made Friday evening, sources said.

Thousands will be flocking to 1 World Trade Center, as well as the 9/11 Museum and Memorial, on Thursday as the city marks the 13th anniversary of the terror attack on the World Trade Center and remembers the nearly 3,000 people who died there.

September 8, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general