Bhutto death sparks LI terror fears

Fear of a terror attack based out of Long Island has been strengthened by Thursday?s assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. Experts say militants bred in the United States and Canada

News 12 Staff

Dec 28, 2007, 5:13 PM

Updated 6,142 days ago

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Fear of a terror attack based out of Long Island has been strengthened by Thursday?s assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
Experts say militants bred in the United States and Canada are training in Pakistani terror camps. According to Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford), the next strike on New York City may be launched from the suburbs of Nassau or Suffolk County.
?Until the Pakistani government gets better control and cracks down on those training camps, that is a real threat to the United States and certainly on Long Island,? says King. King recently met with President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan.
Bhutto, the 54-year-old former prime minister of Pakistan, was assassinated after a campaign rally for the Jan. 8 parliamentary elections. The attacker then committed suicide by igniting a bomb. At least 20 others also lost their lives in the incident.
AP wire reports contributed to this article.