[Cindy]

ttp://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/14692.htm

"PILOT EXPOSES N.Y. ERR PATROL"
By BRIAN BLOMQUIST, LARRY CELONA & WILLIAM NEUMAN

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "December 29, 2003 -- Despite the city's high terror alert, a pleasure-tripping pilot who got lost on his way home was able to fly his small plane through restricted airspace around La Guardia Airport, down the East River and around the Statue of Liberty, authorities said yesterday.

The incident sparked investigations by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Homeland Security and had NYPD brass fuming over a dangerous gap in the city's terror-fighting capability.

But red-faced pilot Richard Langone, 47, insisted he was no terror threat in his single-engine Mooney plane."

[mhking]

Next weekend's NFL playoff locations have been set; all are nationally televised:

Wild Card Weekend
Saturday, January 3
4:30 p.m. ET on ABC -- Tennessee Titans (12-4) at Baltimore Ravens (10-6)
8:00 p.m. ET on ABC -- Dallas Cowboys (10-6) at Carolina Panthers (11-5)

Sunday, January 4
1:00 p.m. ET on FOX -- Seattle Seahawks (10-6) at Green Bay Packers (10-6)
4:30 p.m. ET on CBS -- Denver Broncos (10-6) at Indianapolis Colts (12-4)

[freeperfromnj]

Another strange incident occuring in Paterson, NJ (home to a very large arab/muslim population)

Stolen Ambulance Recovered At Movie Theater

POSTED: 7:34 AM EST December 29, 2003

WAYNE, N.J. -- A private ambulance stolen in Paterson on Christmas night has been found abandoned in a township movie theater lot, but authorities say they remain baffled as to why the theft occurred.

The ambulance, owned by Paterson-based Alpha Care, was found Sunday by a Passaic County Sheriff's Department officer who had been patrolling at the nearby Willowbrook Mall. Authorities had been searching for the vehicle since it was taken from the home of an unidentified Alpha staffer.

The county bomb squad was called in as a precaution to ensure that the abandoned vehicle had not been tampered with, but no damage or devices were found.