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The largest U.S.
city has prepared for such attacks in the past and will be
prepared again, John Miller, deputy police commissioner for
counter-terrorism, said at a news conference.
"Come to the Thanksgiving Day parade. Have a good time. Bring
your family. I always go. I always bring mine," he said.
The holiday celebration, featuring enormous balloons shaped like
cartoon characters high above Manhattan, is scheduled to be
broadcast nationwide the morning of Nov. 24.
Islamic State, in the latest edition of its online magazine
Rumiyah, suggested that readers use motor vehicles to kill and
injure people.
The article was accompanied by photos of rented moving trucks
and of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which the magazine
called "an excellent target."
"What you see is the psychological warfare of printing materials
that indicate, 'Be afraid, be very afraid.' We never accede to
that," Miller said.
New York police speak regularly with companies that rent trucks,
and they use vehicles to block certain roads at large gatherings
such as the Thanksgiving Day parade, Miller said.
Security authorities have been on alert for truck attacks since
Bastille Day this year, when a delivery man plowed a
refrigerator truck into a crowd of revelers in Nice, France,
killing 84 people and injuring hundreds more.
Islamic State, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria and
seeks to inspire attacks by others abroad, claimed
responsibility for the July 14 attack.
(Reporting by David Ingram; Editing by Richard Chang)
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