New Haven synagogues on alert

New Haven (WTNH) - Following the news that four men were planning to blow up a synagogue in New York City, police in New Haven are stepping up patrols around synagogues in the Elm City.

Police say they have no information on any plots in New Haven, but will be providing 'extra visible patrol' to area synagogues.

"There is a baseless hatred out there in the world," said Eli Greer, Yeshiva of New Haven . "There is no comfort zone, there is no time-out. They think it's an on-going war, on-going battle, on-going fight, that's the way the extremist elements look at it whether here in this country on this soil, we have to look at it in that same light. We can never take a day off from being vigilant."

The four homegrown terror suspects have all been arrested thanks to an year long undercover operation that involved the NYPD and the FBI. They did not know the bombs and surface-to-air missiles were fakes, supplied by a federal informant, that were picked up in a warehouse in Stamford. The arrests came when the suspects were actually putting the bombs in cars outside a Jewish center in the Bronx.

"If this had gone forward and these explosives had been real - the missile had been operational. There would have been massive loss of life," said Rep. Peter King, House Homeland Security Committee.

Back in New Haven, Greer knows what happened in New York could happen anywhere - and that is a reason why constant vigilance is needed.

"The ultimate success to foil a plot, the ultimate success for all of us, to remain safe, does fall in the hands of God," he said.