Timely Warnings: A new NYPD report reminds us that Gotham is still al-Qaida’s and other terrorists’ Number One target.

In remarks accompanying the July 1st publication of “Engineering Security,” a 100-page NYPD report on how better to protect the city’s highest-risk buildings and structures from terrorist strikes, David Cohen, the deputy police commissioner of intelligence for the NYPD, reminded us that the city remains terrorists’ most sought-after target. At least 10 “intensely lethal” plots against the city by Al Qaeda, its affiliates, or homegrown militants have been thwarted since 9/11, he said. And though 40 Predator drone attacks in the past year on Al Qaeda’s senior command in Afghanistan and Pakistan have killed many of its key operatives and thrown its command-and-control structure “off balance,” the threat posed by Osama bin Laden’s network remains “unrelenting,” Cohen maintained.