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Posted on 05/25/2004 5:46:09 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Police have uncovered a network that smuggled Palestinian Authority officers, including members of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's elite Force 17 personal protection unit, into Israel in fake ambulances.
Police said it is possible the ring has also smuggled terrorists into Israel using the same method.
One individual has thus far been arrested in connection to the case and police said additional arrests are expected.
Ma'aleh Adumim police recently arrested a resident of Azzariyeh, who holds a blue Israeli identity card, suspected of posing as an ambulance driver and infiltrating into Israel dozens of Palestinians disguised as sick patients.
The "patients" were hooked up to medical devices inside the ambulances and presented soldiers or police officers with forged documents at Israeli checkpoints.
Police believe that in one case, the Force 17 commander was smuggled from Azzariyeh into Israeli territory for a work meeting in East Jerusalem. The arrested man was employed by an ambulance company controlled by Force 17 that operates three ambulances.
A police probe revealed the detainee does not hold an ambulance driver's license and that the license plates of his vehicle were forged. The vehicle itself was likely stolen.
Police recently raided an Azzariyeh warehouse in which commercial vehicles were transformed into ambulances.
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Surprisingly, this story is a little exculpatory. It indicates that the ambulance companies themselves, as well as the Red Crescent, may not have been co-conspirators, at least in this particular smuggling ring.
I am wondering if this tactic is used to smuggle illegals into the U.S. along the border states (Texas, Arizona & New Mexico).
It should not be as exculpatory as it was. Assuming that the Red Crescent ambulance companies themselves were not complicit...when and where were the ambulances reported stolen? That is critical information. Asssuming the ambulances were actually stolen, the Israelis should have been notified of their possible use by terrorists to infiltrate.
I would suggest that the Israelis install tamperproof GPS locators in ambulances. Then they can track them, and any that is stolen acan be promptly recovered, and any that comes through a checkpoint without a GPS will be stopped. Even just knowing where they go would be valuable if the terrorists are using them as taxis.
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LOL! :)
MAN what a tunnel
NOw I wonder how long that they doing this
Keep doing this get away from IDF gunfight
Bastards
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