'terror' Bust On Subway

[Malsua]

I wonder why the post felt it needed to put terror in quotes.


This guy is a dirtbag. Put him under the jail.

-Mal

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'TERROR' BUST ON SUBWAY


http://www.nypost.com/news/regionaln...rray_weiss.htm

uly 22, 2006 -- A man on the national terrorist watch list was smoked out by a sharp-eyed undercover cop yesterday, The Post has learned. Ashish Nayyar, an Indian national, was spotted puffing away on a cigarette by the plainclothes cop on the elevated No. 7 train platform at Queensboro Plaza around midnight Thursday, law-enforcement sources said.
The officer issued him a ticket for smoking. When he did a warrant check on the smoker's name, he discovered Nayyar was on the terror watch list.
Nayyar had a Patrolmen's Benevolent Association card on him from a relative who is on the force, police sources said.
He was brought first to a Transit Division holding area, where NYPD counterterrorism detectives and FBI agents interrogated him, the sources said. It was determined that the FBI in Texas had put Nayyar on the list.
Sources said Nayyar's relative on the NYPD came down to the interrogation and got "huffy," but left when he was told what the situation was.
Authorities had no photo or fingerprints on file to compare with Nayyar's but were able to conclude he was the man on the watch list because he gave police information - his mother's name and his hometown in India - that matched the data on the watch list.
After investigators confirmed his address and his employment, they decided that he was "not a player" in terrorism, a law-enforcement source said.
He was released into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for being in the United States illegally, sources said.
It was unclear how Nayyar got on the watch list, which reportedly has 300,000 names on it.
The national terror watch list is a compilation of databases submitted by law-enforcement agencies around the country and world.
Despite having hundreds of thousands of names, officials have said only a small percentage of them are U.S. citizens.
Notables on the list include Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams of Ireland, and someone who has the same name as Sen. Edward Kennedy.
dan.mangan@nypost.com

[Max]

And what is wrong with Ted Kennedy being on a watchlist? I'd have to say, it's about time.

Regards,

Max

[Brian Baldwin]

Nothing more terrifying in D.C. than walking the streets at night and hoping there isn't a Kennedy out driving. (Intoxification is a given).