BE PREPARED – AT 11:08 A.M.  ET:  I don't know if it's based on specific intelligence, but the New York Police Department is preparing for a possible ISIS attack.  From the New York Post: 

The NYPD has quietly spent the last six months making preparations for a potential ISIS assault in Manhattan, which police fear could be similar to the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, sources told The Post.

Cops have been trained to deal with coordinated bombings and shootings, as in the four-day terror assault that killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, the sources said.

Police trainers have even placed a map of Manhattan over a map of Mumbai to show the geographical similarities, one source said.

Several hundred cops have been reassigned to counterterrorism duties, and some have been trained to use high-powered rifles to take out potential terrorist snipers.

Concerns about an ISIS attack against New York have escalated ever since the US military recently announced plans to help drive the terrorist group out of its stronghold in Mosul, Iraq, a source said.

COMMENT:  It's encouraging that this kind of training is going ahead, and isn't being stopped by New York's left-wing mayor's office.  Sooner or later, we'll be hit again.  Remember that the purpose of terror is to terrorize a population and force it to live in fear.  A series of small attacks against America on the same day may do just that.  New York is still one of the major and logical targets.

March 4, 2015