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based in frankfurt and that was the final destination for this package. but clearly there is great concern there could be more of the bombs out there and so the nypd is saying that all new york banks should look if their mailrooms and check every package and they are stepping up security on top of that here in new york city. and now the pulitzer prize winning journalist and fox news contributor judith miller. judith, in recent history all we had to go by is the cartridge bomb, and we traced that. my question here is, if frankfurt was the final destination for this, is this an isolated package in your estimation? or are we looking for more than one package? as jonathan said i do thin you just have to assume there
contained and i quote, explosives and shrapnel, addressed to the c.e.o., the outgoing c.e.o. of deutch bank. it was intercepted in germany but there is word the package may have been headed to new york city so now as a precaution authorities, new york city police have put security in place at all the deutch bank buildings in new york city including the primary office which is down on wall street. and now back to the fox report chief correspondent with new information on this. jonathan: we get word that new york police department has issued a warning to all new york banks not just deutch bank. all new york banks. to concentrate security efforts right now in their mailrooms after this package was found in the mailroom. it was not, in fact, on the way to new york but addressed to the outgoing c.e.o. of deutch bank
what are you learning about this threat? for the last several weeks fbi and nypd officials have been briefing bank executives and security officials, concerned based on pieces of evidence that package bombs or the like could be sent directly to bank executives at major financial institutions. they stress there s no specific threat information or any specific assassination plot under way, but they remain concerned that based on inspire magazine, an english langua language al qaeda publication, some web postings that are out there and other intelligence information they have, that they may single out some specific individuals and we spoke with peter king yesterday who also voiced concern that names of banking executives may be among the information being discussed. how tight is security among these wall street firms anyway? it s extremely tight in and around the facilities and part of these meetings, they want these banks to step up their security for the mailrooms and
packages. white. cardboard box. 7.5 by 4.5 by 1.5 deep. i don t know if that is the description of the box today that ignited but they may reconsider in maryland whether they should keep the mailrooms open based upon what happened here a short while ago. neil: it would not be safe? or they will find another alternative? guest: well, in washington, dc during the anthrax care of 2001 mail service was disrupted for a long, long time. i know in washington, dc, i didn t get regular mail service for probably a couple of weeks and some of the mail we got at my home came back dried up looking as if it had been cooked, and people were not able to pay their bills because of that and a lot of bill collectors gave reprieves to citizens in the district and surrounding environment because of the mail service being