Bloomberg's blowoff

I don’t know about you, but I was a little nervous over the report last week that domestic terrorists were planning to blow up JFK airport in New York and anyone in or around it.

Hey, this came less than a month after a similar plot to attack soldiers in Fort Dix, N.J., was uncovered.

The scary part about both plots is that the jihadis were home-grown. We’re talking immigrants who have lived and worked among us for years. Instead of seeing us as jes’ plain folks, they saw us as Great Satans who needed to be sent to the next world, ready or not.

Thank God they were caught in time. And thank God both groups of plotters were a little stupid.

The Fort Dix Six were uncovered when they brought a VHS tape of their threats to a Circuit City store and wanted it converted to a DVD.

One of the JFK plotters thought that their newest member “had been sent by Allah to be the one” to pull off the attack. Actually, doofuss, the chosen one was an informant.

Anyhow, you might think that the mayor of New York would be a little concerned about the plot too. After all, the first World Trade Center bombings and 9-11 horrors occurred in the Big Apple. To New Yorkers, there is nothing abstract about terrorism.

To my surprise, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the latest plot … was no big deal.

"There are lots of threats to you in the world,” he told WCBSTV. “ …You can’t sit there and worry about everything. Get a life. … You have a much greater danger of being hit by lightning than being struck by a terrorist."

Gee whiz, Mr. Mayor! I suppose the lightning/terrorist things is mathematically valid, but these guys weren’t planning a college prank.

Authorities say they were scheming to bomb a fuel pipeline feeding the airport and set off an inferno. One of the plotters worked at JFK in the cargo section and knew the layout. The group also made several surveillance trips around the airport — each recorded on audio and video.

You don’t have to watch too many episodes of “24” to be worried about something like that. Yet the very mayor of New York reacts like a bored cabbie hearing that the Yankees lost and shrugs, “Fugedaboudit.” Wow!

I hope our luck holds. I also hope the mayor of the next city that is targeted isn’t so naïve.