CTU New York

CTU New York (also CTU NY) was originally a Domestic Unit of the Counter Terrorist Unit based in New York City. Following the temporary disbandment of all CTU units prior to Day 7, the New York office was reconstituted in a new subterranean location on Roosevelt Island and took the lead in investigating a potential assassination plot against President Omar Hassan of the Islamic Republic of Kamistan during Day 8.

CTU New York building

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History

Collateral Damage

Jack Bauer supervised the opening of CTU New York as a terrorist crisis dawned. Unlike CTU Los Angeles, this unit was based in an office building, neighboring many civilian businesses.

Day 3

During Day 3, CTU New York, along with the NYPD found a vial of the Cordilla Virus attached to a railing. They sucessfully defused it. Wilson, a CTU NY agent, was present at the defusion of the vial. It is possible he was head of Field Ops. ("Day 3: 11:00am-12:00pm")

Day 8

8x01 CTU NY Bullpen — The new bullpen at CTU NY

By the start of Day 8, CTU New York had been reopened in a new, highly advanced facility under Roosevelt Island, aided by unmanned drone surveillance of the entire New York metropolitan area. Acting on information from Victor Aruz, the unit took point investigating an assassination plot against President Omar Hassan at the United Nations, beginning with the interrogation of journalist Meredith Reed.

Following the failed assassination attempt, CTU NY initiated an undercover operation using former FBI agent Renee Walker to locate Uranium-235 rods that Red Square planned to sell to Farhad Hassan. Through Vladimir Laitanan they found Sergei Bazhaev, who was the head of Red Square and was planning to sell the rods to Farhad. CTU got to Sergei, but his son Josef had already taken the rods as an act of defiance against his father. He was killed by Farhad who took possession of the rods, but Farhad himself was betrayed by his own people.

Samir Mehran had Farhad executed, but Jack Bauer managed to lure one of Samir's operatives to a hospital where he admitted that President Hassan's former head of security, Tarin Faroush, was involved in the threat. Faroush had Hassan's daughter hostage and offered to exchange her for some documents that Hassan had possession of that showed the weak points in American security, which would therefore allow Samir to attack the U.S. CTU managed to acquire Kayla before the deadline for Hassan to hand over the documents took place, but it transpired that Kayla's rescue was all part of Samir's plan to detonate an electromagnetic pulse bomb at CTU to stop them from being able to track their next move. He was successful, but Chloe's computer skills enabled the search to commence before too much debilitation.

Attacks on CTU New York

8x12c — The EMP takes out CTU New York (Day 8: 3:00am-4:00am)

In an effort to stop CTU from being able to track their whereabouts during an attack on the U.S., Samir Mehran set up an elaborate plan to detonate an electromagnetic pulse bomb at the government facility. Tarin Faroush faked an escape for Kayla Hassan, who was being held hostage, and convinced her to call CTU after giving her his car. Samir pretended to shoot Tarin, and made sure that Kayla saw him, but it was all part of the plan and Tarin was unharmed.

CTU guided Kayla to their facility, at which point they realized there was an EMP in the vehicle. As they found it the countdown to its explosion was at 15 seconds before detonation. Brian Hastings tried to get all personnel out of the area, but a security guard tried to move the car away. He did not manage it in time and all CTU's electrical equipment was shut down. Samir's vehicle (which CTU had been tracking) was lost and Jack and Cole had to call the NSA to assist them with their operation as CTU was out of action.

Arlo reported that there had been three fatalities from the blast (one being Gerrard), as well as one agent who was hospitalized from severe burns.

Missions

Day	Mission
Operation Hell Gate	Find Frank Hensley and prevent the influenza from being released in New York
Operation Hell Gate

Day 8	Eliminiate the threat against Omar Hassan
Day 8	CTU NY contended with a threat against President Omar Hassan, as brought up by Jack Bauer. With the help of Jack and the efficient work of operatives from CTUNY, the threat against Hassan was neutralised. Hassan's brother, Farhad, had planned for him to be killed by Davros but Cole Ortiz intercepted the explosion before Hassan could be injured.

Day 8	Secure the nuclear rods in the hands of the Kamistan splinter cell.
Day 8	Following the attempt on the life of his brother, Farhad planned to take some nuclear rods, sold to him by Sergei Bazhaev, and use them against his country. However, his associates realized that this would not be possible as they could not get them out of the United States and so planned to use them against New York. When they turned against Farhad he offered himself to CTU to get them back, but he was shot before he could do so. Farhad's cohorts were unaware that he had been killed and, after CTU leaked a story of his recovery from the shooting, they sent Marcos Al-Zacar as a suicide bomber to finish him. Marcos was unsuccessful and died as a result of the bomb, but admitted that Tarin Faroush was part of the conspiracy. To stop CTU from being able to continue tracking them, Faroush's co-conspirator Samir Mehran sent Kayla Hassan unwittingly to CTU with an Electromagnetic pulse bomb that destroyed all their electrical systems. While it was successful, Chloe O'Brian managed to regain the servers without them having to be replaced and the efforts to trace the rods continued.