govtech : New York City Repurposes Text Emergency Alert System to Warn About Chelsea Bomber

New York City Repurposes Text Emergency Alert System to Warn About Chelsea Bomber

(TNS) — New Yorkers throughout the city were alerted Monday morning to the name of the Chelsea bombing suspect when the city activated its emergency alert system, the first time it has done so for a wanted suspect.The system, which utilizes cellphone towers to disseminate the message, blasted out Ahmad Khan Rahami's name and age at 7:54 a.m., asking people to call 911 if they saw him.Rahami was captured less than three hours later in Linden, New Jersey.

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New York City bombing: FBI releases photo of men in probe of unexploded bomb

NEW YORK Investigators of last weekend's bombings have released an image of two men who took a suitcase they found on a city street, possibly without realizing a wired pressure cooker they removed from it and left behind could have blown them to bits.Police investigating the bombings in New York and New Jersey have been saying for several days they were looking for the men, who they stressed were being sought as potential witnesses in the case, not as suspects."They're not in any jeopardy of being arrested," Jim Watters, chief of the New York Police Department's counterterrorism unit, said on Wednesday.

New York City street picks up pieces after bomb blast

By Gina CherelusNEW YORK (Reuters) - Life crept back to a New York City street that was rattled by a bomb on Saturday, as business owners and their employees traded disbelief and fear for the task of getting back to normal on Manhattan's West 23rd Street.Shattered shop doors and windows, remnants of yellow police tape and nearly deserted sidewalks that normally bustle with activity were reminders on Tuesday morning of the blast that shook the Chelsea neighborhood and injured 29 people on a warm September evening.By New York City standards, the block between 6th and 7th Avenues is unremarkable, dotted with small shops and brick apartment towers and some distance from tourist magnets like the Empire State Building and Times Square.

How the New York City Bomber Was Caught

Stroke of luckIf the Chelsea bomber had packed his second pressure-cooker IED in a less eye-catching bag, two men might not have removed it—and it could have killed dozens.Had the bomber chosen a simple black or solid hued wheeled suitcase, the two men who happened by might not have even noticed it sitting on a dimly lit patch of pavement on the uptown side of West 27th Street."They might have just walked right on by," a high-ranking cop said on Monday.