The Case of the Rocky Mountain Jihadi - Heads are rolling...dogs are sniffing.

And police dogs got a hit on a storage unit in the Bronx last night.

A Bronx block was abruptly shut down last night after bomb-sniffing dogs set off a terror search at a warehouse.

A tip led investigators looking into a possible terror cell in the city to American Self Storage on River Avenue in High Bridge. Police dogs indicated they'd found something suspicious.

FBI evidence teams hauled out three boxes at around 10:15 p.m. The contents were not immediately known.

It's been rumored that the NYPD muffed this investigation since the story broke.  Unfortunately, it appears to have been true.

New York Police Official in Terror Unit removed from post.

The New York Police Department has removed a senior official from one of its two sometimes competing antiterrorism units, after it played a role in disrupting a sensitive federal terrorism investigation, current and former police officials said on Wednesday. He was replaced by a top official from the other unit.
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The official transferred out of the Intelligence Division, Deputy Inspector Paul Ciorra, was the intelligence collection coordinator. He has been moved to the Trial Division, which oversees administrative hearings for police officers accused of misconduct. His union leader, Roy T. Richter, noted that the shift would not have been made if he had been transferred for disciplinary reasons.

One former government official with knowledge of the matter said there was no indication that the deputy inspector had done anything wrong and that the decision to approach the imam had been made at the highest levels of the Intelligence Division. The unit is led by David Cohen, a former top C.I.A. official. The former official said the deputy inspector was moved to absorb the blame.

There might be another reason for the transfer - will the officer in question be called to testify in Ahmad Afzali's trial today?

Meanwhile, a member of the NYPD's intelligence division could be called to testify on why he trusted a Queens imam with the details of the probe into a suspected al Qaeda cell.

Ahmad Afzali, an imam and police snitch, is due in Brooklyn federal court today on charges he told alleged bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi the feds were watching him -- then lied about it to the FBI. Afzali's lawyer says his NYPD handler can prove he's no double agent.