Steal an armored van for bomb delivery?
More likely they were going to repossess a vehicle - or were 'shopping' for one ...
"You don't understand, officer, I'm not a terrorist, I can explain. You see, ever since I was little, my hobby has been collecting false identification papers. When I was just a little boy in Cairo, I used to make my own passports out of construction paper, my mother thought they were so cute, she hung them on the refrigerator. When I was in high school, I learned how to slip my picture into real drivers' licenses that had been stolen--it's very difficult, you know. It's a demanding hobby, but very rewarding, uh... hey! look behind you, it's Osama bin Laden!!" (runs away as fast as he can)
tip of the iceberg. Here in Sacramento, a gang was running a "license factory" in plain view in the parking lot of a strip mall. They even had regular business hours and used minors to hold the parking spots for their custormers only which was ruining the businesses in the mall. The police allowed them to operate for over a year while they "investigated". Thousands of fake licenses (driver's and SS) were generated during this "investigation".
We see profiling in nature all the time. Does a lion charge after a gazelle? No, he leaves that prey for the cheetahs. Why? Because it's a waste of energy trying to catch one; the lion profiles. Example after example tells us that to profile is to survive.
Profile muslims. Law abiding muslims will simply have to understand that a sizeable percentage of their ilk are western civilization-hating mongrels, and that they will be "sized up" during their everyday routine.
The 9-11 attack (NOT a tragedy) and the subsequent "round-up" of muslims will hopefully teach some lessons that the PC crowd is ill advised to ignore about life, human nature and sociology.
Meanwhile, I hope the muslims with the tow truck and the fake ID's go free. Yes, let them... and have the NSA/CIA/FBI tail their every move to find the bigger fish so that they can all be shot in a raid at the "safe-house".
Why were they driving a tow truck?? Very handy for carting off ATM machines, breaking into gun stores, pulling open burglar bars, store doors, heisting vehicles, etc. Think the cops made the right call in raising the flag on this one.
He searched the truck and found numerous false identification cards, Caldwell said, including a half dozen drivers’ licenses from several states “with different identities on them.”
Lock them up until they turn states evidence on their "buddies". Send them to Guantanamo.
It seems they get a fixation on a target (the World Trade Center, now the Pentagon) and just keep on hammering until they get it.
They don't seem very imaginative - once they have an idea, they obsess over it. Fortunately, this really helps law enforcement go after them.
Thoughts?
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If you are going to be a terrorist and want to have a powerful vehicle to go into key areas and be transparent, get yourself a tow truck!
Hell you would even become more transparent if you turned on the flashing lights. Then you could tow away any vehicle you needed for your next terrorisms assignment. No one would bother you.
About a decade ago, some bright thugs stole a tow truck in the Visalia area. They used it to rip the atm machines out of the various branches of banks and savings and loan. They would back right up to the atm attach chains and rip it out and drive off to any alley, lower it and take it apart and steal the money.
They got caught when a guy who retired from the company I worked for, got a part time job of restocking the money for ATMs. He would do this early in the morning before the regular morning rush on ATM's by the customers.
He had filled up an ATM and drove about a block away to do his paper work. He heard a noise and looked in his rear view mirror and saw a tow truck back up to the ATM and somehow rig chains to the machine. They pulled it out of the wall and then drove by him with the ATM dangling from the tow hook.
It was about 4:30 am, and he used the cell phone that was provided by the ATM company for security. He called the police as he followed the truck. About 6 blocks away the truck turned down an alley and the robbers got out to shred the machine for the cash.
He was on the phone with the dispatch gal and she sent two squad cars up the alley from opposite directions. They pulled up and ordered the bad guys to hit the pavement. Then they arrested them.
I am on watch at the grocery store, the mall, driving down the highway, sitting at red lights. I think what terrorists we do have here in country, that have a clue about how America operates, have gone so far underground out of fear of being discovered. We know their faces, security is beefed up all over the place at power plants, chemical plants, oil refineries, etc.
We have almost instant communication at our disposal with cell phones, it will not be so easy for them to pull something off anymore.