Port Authority Police Office Donald McIntyre died in the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. The handcuffs he carried were recovered from the rubble. A fellow officer, Det. Thomas McHale, Jr., brought the handcuffs with him when he went to Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in 2002. And they were used there to handcuff numerous al-Qaeda and Taliban captures, including Abu Zubaydah. Story in today’s New York Post: Detective has the right ’cuff. McHale is being awarded the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Medal of Honor today for his achievements against terrorism during that sojourn in Central Asia — which included:

• He helped uncover and close down a biological weapons laboratory in Kandahar, Afghanistan, while serving alongside federal agents and military forces in the Operation Anaconda mission.
• He responded to a deadly bomb attack on a Protestant church near the American Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, and helped secure the area as a crime scene, even though live bombs were still present.
• He arrested a would-be terrorist from Pakistan who was found with $25,000 and a recipe for explosives similar to those used in the 1993 truck-bomb attack on the World Trade Center.

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