Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says a veritable fortress will be created to protect the World Trade Center site for the ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.

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A shot of the World Trade Center site under construction, taken Aug. 30, 2011.

In advance of Sunday’s 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the New York Police Department will turn the blocks around Ground Zero into a veritable fortress, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday, during a broad assessment of the NYPD’s counter-terrorism measures.
“While no one has uncovered a specific plot, documents found in Osama bin Laden’s compound after his death speak to al Qaeda’s aspirations to carry out an attack on this date,” he said Wednesday in a speech at a conference by the Manhattan Institute. “For that reason, we need to take precautions as if an actual plot is underway.”
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