By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Wall Street banks are beefing up security in response to recent indications that they are being targeted by al Qaeda, NBC New York reported Tuesday.
Over the past few weeks the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and the NYPD have been briefing finance executives and security teams at Goldman Sachs, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, and others on the possibility of an attack, according to the news network.
The concern is based at least in part on writings that have appeared on the web and in the English-language al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, NBC said.
A recent posting by al Qaeda blogger Abu Suleiman Al-Nasser, for instance, included the line: "Rush my Muslim brothers to targeting financial sites and the program sites of financial institutions, stock markets and money markets," according to the news station.
And an item in the latest issue of Inspire discussed a possible anthrax attack, NBC said.
Security officials have called for extra vigilance in and around the bank's mailrooms, fearing that an attack might be carried out through biological or chemical weapons enclosed within packages, according to NBC.
