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Wide of Muslim men kneeling in prayer2. Close-up of men prayingNew York City - 24 February 20123. Wide of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's radio show4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Bloomberg,...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFILE: New York City - 2 February 2012\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Muslim men kneeling in prayer\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close-up of men praying\u003cbr/\u003eNew York City - 24 February 2012\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's radio show\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everything the New York Police Department has done is legal, it is appropriate, it is constitutional. They are permitted to travel beyond the borders of New York City to investigate cases. They can look at websites, they can watch television to detect unlawful activities or where there might be unlawful activities to get leads. We don't target individuals based on race or religion.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNew York City - 24 February 2012\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of New York Police Commissioner, Ray Kelly, at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ray Kelly, New York City Police Commissioner:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We follow leads. We've had 14 plots against this city that have been thwarted because of luck, good work by the federal authorities, good work partnership with the NYPD (New York Police Department). All 14 of those plots were developed by Muslim extremists.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ray Kelly, New York City Police Commissioner:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have to do what we need to do to protect New York City and I think that if you poll these issues they don't seem to be unpopular position on the part of most of the public. You can't rely on polls though. The mayor said today, and obviously we support what the mayor says, that we're going to continue to do what we have to do to keep New York safe.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNewark, New Jersey - 24 February 2012\u003cbr/\u003e9. Pan of news conference with Muslim groups in New Jersey\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed El Filali, Islamic Centre of Passaic County:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's unconstitutional, un-American. If there is a lead, by all means, I totally agree that there should be an investigation. The safety of our country comes first, but not at the jeopardy of our civil liberties.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePaterson, New Jersey - 24 February 2012\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Omar Mosque\u003cbr/\u003e12. Pan of people praying at mosque\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmood Attallah, Spokesperson for Omar Mosque:\u003cbr/\u003e\"How could some come and accuse us of something that we didn't do. If the NYPD did that, I would like them to come out with the results. Did they find anybody that's a terrorist in this mosque? But to implicate the mosque in a way that is a peaceful place, that's protected under the constitution, to come and pray and cause all this mess, I don't think that is fair for us.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of people coming out of mosque\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Aref Assaf, Attends Omar Mosque:\u003cbr/\u003e\"How do I feel? I feel violated, of course. No one has the right to invade my privacy and they have done that. And to the extent possible I want to stop it and I want to find those who were engaged in such activities and hold them accountable for that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of people coming out of mosque\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of mosque\u003cbr/\u003eNew York's mayor served notice on Friday that his police department will do everything within its power to root out militants in the United States - even if it means sending officers outside the city limits or placing law-abiding Muslims under scrutiny.\u003cbr/\u003eIn perhaps his most vigorous defence yet of some of the New York Police Department's anti-terrorism efforts, Bloomberg said it is \"legal\", \"appropriate\" and \"constitutional\" for police to keep a close eye on Muslim communities that extremists might use as a base to strike the city.\u003cbr/\u003eThe mayor laid out his doctrine for keeping the city safe during his weekly radio show following a week of criticism of a secret police department effort to monitor mosques in several cities and keep files on Muslim student groups at colleges in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and upstate New York.\u003cbr/\u003eSeveral college administrators and politicians have complained that the intelligence-gathering - exposed in a series of stories by The Associated Press - pried too deeply into the lives of innocent people.\u003cbr/\u003eWith about 1,000 officers dedicated to intelligence and counter-terrorism, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has one of the most aggressive domestic intelligence operations in the US.\u003cbr/\u003eIts methods have stirred debate in legal circles over whether it has crossed the line and violated the civil liberties of Muslims.\u003cbr/\u003eRay Kelly, New York's Police Commissioner, also defended the programme on Friday.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have to do what we need to do to protect New York City,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the past few days, the department has come under fire from university officials and others, including the president of Yale University, after the AP revealed that police agents had monitored Muslim student groups around the Northeast and had sent an undercover agent on a white-water rafting trip with some college students.\u003cbr/\u003eMore criticism came from public officials in New Jersey after another AP report detailed a secret effort by the NYPD to photograph every mosque in Newark and catalogue Muslim businesses.\u003cbr/\u003eThat operation was an extension of a similar tracking effort within New York's city limits. \u003cbr/\u003eMuslim groups gathered in Newark, New Jersey on Friday to express their outrage over the NYPD programme.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's unconstitutional, un-American,\" said Mohamed El Filali of the Islamic Centre of Passaic County.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If there is a lead, by all means, I totally agree that there should be an investigation, the safety of our country comes first, but not at the jeopardy of our civil liberties,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Paterson, New Jersey - about 15 miles (24 kilometres) from Manhattan - the Omar Mosque was identified as a target for surveillance by the NYPD.\u003cbr/\u003eMahmood Attallah, a spokesperson for Omar Mosque, said on Friday that if the NYPD secretly watched the mosque, he wants to see the results. \u003cbr/\u003e\"If the NYPD did that, I would like them to come out with the results. 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