'Mideast' Snoops Spurring Ambulance-Bomb Alert (TROP™ contemplating public service, no doubt)

The New York Post ^ | August 29, 2004 | Al Guart

[quidnunc]

Suspicious incidents involving Middle Eastern-looking men trying to infiltrate New Jersey ambulance corps have put New York authorities on alert.

Counterterrorism officials in New York and New Jersey are circulating a two-page memo detailing the efforts of five men who appeared to be on missions to gather information on emergency-response operations.

Authorities fear the men could be part of a plot to load ambulances or firetrucks with explosives or chemicals and breach security barriers at hard targets — or to set up a "secondary incident" after an initial terror strike.

The Aug. 12 memo detailed three incidents. In the most recent one, a man claiming to be a Pakistani doctor attended a Middlesex County, N.J., ambulance squad's open house.

The man asked questions "related exclusively to the operation of the emergency vehicles, including the speed at which the vehicles responded to calls and the use of lights and sirens," the memo stated.

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[kcar]

They are going to pray to be sent to detention centers if such an event occurs.

[canalabamian]

Suspicious incidents involving Middle Eastern-looking men

Don't profile! /sarcasm

[lightman]

Fairly old news. There has been concern about infiltration a/o commandeering of emergency response vehicles for at least a year. What is new is the specific region info.

[Diogenesis]

One wonders IF anyone will be EVER be executed (spies, traitors)
or arrested (Berger the MASTER-THIEF of AMERICA's SECURITY).

Doubt General Washington would have waited this long.

[tioga]

-even our upstate FD got that memo circulated again.......must be something more up then they are letting on, or they just want everyone to be careful during the convention.

[marmar]

Ahhh common guys, there is not terrorist threat...according the the lefty liberals....(sarcasm) Another good reason for racial profiling. I wonder if this will wake some of those folks who have forgotten about 9/11, especially in the Big Apple......

[JoanneSD]

Vehicles identified as ambulances have used the ploy to transport illegal aliens from Mexico, so as not to be detected so easily..

[spokeshave]

So why didn't they keep the guy talking...better yet a tour of the hospital while someone called the FBI....?

I guess if NYers were dumb enough to vote schrillary to the Senate they can miss a suspect terrorist.

[gcruse]

I dub this The Slow-Motion War.

[lightman]

Also a frequent tactic by Palestinians.

[John Jorsett]

"Hello. How much C-4 do you think an ambulance would hold? Just curious."

[kcar]

Fox News just reported this story.

[sgtbono2002]

Ambulances are much bigger today than they used to be, many have stopped using vans and gone to small trucks. Todays ambulances will haul a pretty good load if you were to strip them of medical supplies and load them with explosives. Most ambulances only have two guys in them , one drives the other works on the patient. Pretty easy to overpower two people. Just call 911 the Ambulance is delivered to your door overpower the attendents and you are in business.