Police Toning Down Subway Security Alert
After four days on high alert, New York City police announced that they were scaling back a subway security crackdown prompted by a report of a terrorist plot to blow up trains.
City officials said they were still investigating claims by a federal intelligence agency informant that operatives in Iraq had hatched a plot to attack the subways using baby strollers packed with remote-controlled explosives.
Officials continued to defend a decision to flood the subways Thursday with thousands of extra police officers even though no evidence of a plot had turned up.
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