Massive B]o]m]b]]in]g Attack Stopped in NYC!
The plot’s scope and level of cruelty were astounding. Later, investigators discovered that Gann had actually started the tactical deployment of his armaments, not just planned an attack. IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, had been carefully dispersed around the city’s most susceptible thoroughfares. These placements were not made at random; rather, they were the product of a guy who had researched the pulse of the city. Devices were found around crucial subway track sections where the subsurface topography would have increased the explosion’s concussive effect. They were located on rooftops and in high places, where they could maximize an unavoidable sense of terror and shower debris down on busy streets. Gann had a very clear goal in mind: to use New York City’s infrastructure against its citizens.
Gann’s digital traces from the latter hours of the plot were both menacing and conceited. His last encrypted letter to the world seemed more like a provocation—a challenge to the very authorities he thought he had outwitted—than a manifesto. But Gann had largely misjudged the pace and stance of the contemporary security forces. The “dare” had already been fulfilled under the direction of Kash Patel’s counterterrorism squads, working closely with the NYPD’s highly specialized units.
