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People pass below a New York Police security camera, upper left, situated above a mosque on Fulton St., in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York on Aug. 18. After the attacks of Sept. 11, the New York Police Department has dispatched teams of undercover officers into minority neighborhoods and used informants to monitor sermons at mosques, even when there's no evidence of wrongdoing.

With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas

The AP reports from NEW YORK:

In New Brunswick, N.J., a building superintendent opened the door to apartment No. 1076 one balmy Tuesday and discovered an alarming scene: terrorist literature strewn about the table and computer and surveillance equipment set up in the next room.

The panicked superintendent dialed 911, sending police and the FBI rushing to the building near Rutgers University on the afternoon of June 2, 2009. What they found in that first-floor apartment, however, was not a terrorist hideout but a command center set up by a secret team of New York Police Department intelligence officers. Continue reading.

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CIA provided similar training/assistance to the Washington D.C. Police Department Intel Division back in the 70's and got into a whole lot of trouble; how time changes.

    Reply#1 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:37 AM EDT

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      Reply#2 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:40 AM EDT
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