Man scales paper’s headquarters to protest Al Qaeda

WIL CRUZ and JILL COFFEY
NY Daily News
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Another climber with a cause has gone up the side of The New York Times Building in midtown.

But unlike the two men who made it to the top of the 52-story structure June 5, David Malone went only to about the 11th floor early Wednesday morning.

Malone called the Daily News and acknowledged he was after the same free publicity the earlier pair received.

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He hung a banner over the first “T” of The New York Times sign that featured a picture of terror kingpin Osama Bin Laden holding President Bush like a puppet.

On it were the words “Bin Laden’s Plan” – the title of his book and Web site.

He said he wanted to protest Al Qaeda’s “crusader baiting,” and that the terror group’s “intentional provocation of the U.S.” was the greatest threat to American national security.

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Malone said he was 29 and from Connecticut and that he had dropped out of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1995 to study Al Qaeda full-time.

Malone said he picked the wee hours for his climb because he was “trying to minimize any disturbance – any breach of the peace.” He told no one in advance, he said.

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