> Under the new police state, "antiterrorist" regime, NYU was completely
> cordoned off to protect Clinton, Blair, Prodi, & the Bulgarian whose name
> escapes me. Washington Square Park was surrounded by concrete blocks,
> fences, and cop cars. (City Hall has recently gotten similar treatment; I
> don't know if this is permanent, or just while the alleged embassy bombers
> are kept in a nearby jail, but about half of City Hall Park is now
> off-limits.)
The NY times today has a wonderful picture of a limousine drooped over an anti-terrorist barrier. The damned thing popped up on a hair trigger, and smashed into the limo from underneath.
The limo was carrying the Japanese Defense Minister Fukushiro Nukaga with our Secretary of Defense, William Cohen to a meeting at the Pentagon. Nukaga and two other Japanese officials in the limo were injured.
The article says nothing on their impressions of our defense systems.
It's a great picture.
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