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 NEW YORK (AP) - A team of New York detectives have stepped up their partnership with thousands of businesses asked to monitor their sales of chemicals in an effort to turn the private sector into an early warning system for terror plots.
Those participating "are manufacturers or service providers whose products have been used, or the use had been contemplated, in actual or planned terrorist attacks," police spokesman Paul Browne said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly — responding to reports that terrorists sought to down jetliners using explosives made from the solvent acetone and highly concentrated peroxide — directed intelligence officers to remind manufacturers and vendors "to report any anomalies or suspicious orders involving their products," Browne said.
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