NYC Tunnel Bomb Plot Foiled

From the NY Daily News:

The FBI has uncovered what officials consider a serious plot by jihadists to bomb the Holland Tunnel in hopes of causing a torrent of water to deluge lower Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.

The terrorists sought to drown the Financial District as New Orleans was by Hurricane Katrina, sources said. They also wanted to attack subways and other tunnels.
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The News has learned that at the request of U.S. officials, authorities in Beirut arrested one of the alleged conspirators, identified as Amir Andalousli, in recent months. Agents were scrambling yesterday to try to nab other suspects, sources said.
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Sources said that New York City officials believed the plan could conceivably work with enough explosives placed in the middle of the tunnel, which runs underneath the river bed, a source said.
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The FBI discovered the plot by monitoring Internet chat rooms, where the aspiring terrorists discussed striking the U.S. economy, rather than causing mass casualties, a source said.

"They're hell-bent on destroying the economy in the U.S.," a counterterrorism source said.

Don't these terrorists know that neither Wall Street, nor the Holland Tunnel, nor Ground Zero, nor any assets in Lower Manhattan are American icons?  What a waste of time!

U.S. agents were allowed to take part in the interrogation of Andalousli, a source said.

Well, I'm confused.  Why would U.S. agents be interested in interrogating the conspirators?  That would suggest that an attack on New York's financial system has some kind of dire national implications.  If that were the case, surely adequate federal dollars would be allocated to ensure correspondingly robust security of such areas.  You know... high tech security cameras, supplemental police forces, etc.

Federal agents must be having a slow business day to turn their attention to such a local issue.

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