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NYPD Yanks Top Cop From Terror Unit

Official replaced after unit's imam informant tipped off suspect

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 24, 2009 6:29 AM CDT

(Newser) – A top official from one of the NYPD's two counterterror units has been replaced after his unit disrupted a federal terror probe by inadvertently alerting the prime suspect to the investigation. Paul Ciorra of the Intelligence Division—which sometimes competes with the city's Counterterrorism Bureau... Read full story »

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