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JPost.com » News » Security-Diplomacy » Police find two more fake ambulances in Azariyeh May. 28, 2004 12:30 | Updated May. 28, 2004 12:33 Police find two more fake ambulances in Azariyeh By YAAKOV KATZ Police uncovered overnight Thursday two more fake ambulances, which they suspect were part of a network of fake ambulances used to smuggle Palestinian Authority officers disguised as patients into Israel. The ambulances were uncovered in the village of Azariyeh, east of Jerusalem, which police said was the center of the network. A second man suspected of involvement with the network - a Palestinian from east...

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz announced today (Sunday) that UNWRA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) ambulances were used to steal and transport body parts of Israeli soldiers killed in last Wednesday’s bomb attack on the Philadelphi route in southern Gaza. The senior minister called upon UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan to address the disturbing phenomenon. At today’s cabinet meeting, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said that the UN ambulance, which had also been used to transport terrorists, had been captured by security forces near the Philadelphi area. He said that only after intense diplomatic pressure did UNRWA announce that...

Marines inside Fallujah today observed terrorist forces using ambulances to transport weapons. Marines in the city witnessed an ambulance back up to a mosque inside Fallujah. Occupants from the vehicle subsequently carried weapons into the mosque.

Fallujah, Iraq-AP -- Hundreds of residents of Fallujah, Iraq, are again streaming from the city, as a tenuous cease-fire between coalition forces and insurgents remains in place. An Associated Press reporter notes the streets are largely deserted, except for those who are fleeing for the perceived safety of the outskirts of the city. Meanwhile, skirmishing goes on. In one incident today, U-S Marines shot and killed two insurgents who were trying to set up a machine gun on a street. Then, an ambulance pulled up and a man jumped out, trying to collect the weapons of the deceased rather than...

How should democracies like the U.S. and Israel respond to terrorist attacks that use ambulances loaded with explosives? Terrorists deliberately employ these protected vehicles for two reasons: to fool those whose job it is to prevent acts of terrorism and - the more long-range reason - to provoke the democracies into violating human rights laws by stopping real ambulances and people in medical need. This pattern appears to be spreading. In October, an ambulance was used to blow up a Red Cross headquarters in Iraq. In January, an ambulance blew up a Baghdad hotel. Also in January, a woman feigning...

Al-Qaida has prepared 15 cars filled with explosives for suicide attacks in Iraq, reports intelligence newsletter Geostrategy-Direct.. Iraqi security sources said the vehicles include ambulances designed to penetrate protected facilities, such as police stations and Coalition Provisional Authority offices. Some of the vehicles, outfitted with TNT and shrapnel, had been stolen or obtained along the Iraqi-Turkish border, the sources said. Other ambulances have been stolen in Baghdad and have been prepared for suicide attacks in northern and central Iraq. "The idea is for them to be disguised as service vehicles that would not normally be seen as suspicious," an...

Posted: December 11, 2003 3:06 p.m. Eastern Editor's note: WorldNetDaily brings readers exclusive, up-to-the-minute global intelligence news and analysis from Geostrategy-Direct, a new online newsletter edited by veteran journalist Robert Morton and featuring the "Backgrounder" column compiled by Bill Gertz. Geostrategy-Direct is a subscription-based service produced by the publishers of WorldTribune.com, a free news service frequently linked by the editors of WorldNetDaily. © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Al-Qaida has prepared 15 cars filled with explosives for suicide attacks in Iraq, reports intelligence newsletter Geostrategy-Direct.. Iraqi security sources said the vehicles include ambulances designed to penetrate protected facilities, such as police stations and...

Rashed Tarek al-Nimr, a cousin of PLO executive head Farouk Kadoumi, who worked as a chemist in hospitals in Nablus and Bethlehem, supplied chemicals he took from the hospitals to Hamas for use in making bombs. He told the Shin Bet he used ambulances to transport the chemicals. Details of his arrest on November 24 were released by the Shin Bet on Wednesday. Nimr met a number of Hamas members, including senior commanders from the Nablus area, who hid inside the hospitals to evade arrest. Several months prior to his arrest, he met Khaled Abu Hamed, a senior Hamas commander,...

As he lay dying, ambulances went elsewhere By John Semien semien@gomemphis.com July 17, 2003 As ambulance drivers bounced from one wrong destination to another, James Hill Wagner lay on a pool hall floor, friends pleading with him to stay alive. The 68-year-old was competing in a pool tournament when he collapsed over a pool table shortly after 9 p.m. July 9. It took 30 minutes from the first 911 call for an ambulance to reach Wagner at The Billiard Club, 2686 Kirby-Whitten - after units were mistakenly sent to at least three other locations. Friends and club employees spent those...

Basra, March 29: Shock Trauma Platoons (STP) attached to the US Marine Corps have covered their trade mark red cross on ambulances after being targeted by Iraqi forces, a military spokesman said today. A senior commander was quoted in an agency report as saying that the decision was made at a meeting of STPs, the first line of medical help for injured troops on the front, after fierce battles with Iraqi forces in Nasiriyah last week. STP ambulances that were displaying the red cross were clearly and significantly targeted by Iraqis armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, he reportedly said. Under...

Ambulance-Use For Terrorists A hearing held in the Beit El Military Court this week has shed some light on how Palestinian terrorists use ambulances to further their murderous cause. The hearing concerned Aslam Jabril, a 'Red Crescent' ambulance driver who is charged with using ambulances to transport weapons to terrorists of the Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades in Shechem and Ramallah. The accused pleaded guilty to having transported, in his ambulance, guns and explosive belts for use in planned terror attacks. On at least one occasion, Jabril transported a doctor and his brother's wife and children in order hide the...

Friday, December 13, 2002 Immigrants Swamp Border Hospitals By Lynn Brezosky The Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Ambulances regularly race across the bridges of the Rio Grande, bringing some of Mexico's most ill to the nearest U.S. emergency room. Obligated by federal law, the hospitals provide the care and worry later about whether the billing addresses patients give them are accurate. Often the addresses are false — and the hospitals get stuck with the bill. Immigrant patients have inflated medical expenses for insurance companies, Medicaid and paying customers, officials say, and are overwhelming already busy hospitals in one of the...

NEWARK, N.J. -- An attempt by two Middle Eastern men to buy a fake ambulance spurred authorities to issue warnings that terrorists may seek to use bogus emergency vehicles as weapons, authorities said. About two weeks ago, two men walked into Movie Time Cars Inc., a Lyndhurst company that rents replicas of ambulances and police cars to TV and film producers. The men offered to pay cash to buy a replica ambulance, said Joe Sargo, the company's owner. Sargo, suspicious, told the men he does not sell vehicles to anyone. The men quickly left, but an employee jotted down...

<p>June 21, 2002 -- An anonymous Pakistani e-mailer asked a New Jersey ambulance corps how to buy an ambulance and run a rescue squad just a month before two Middle Eastern-looking men tried to buy a replica ambulance from a movie-prop shop, The Post has learned.</p>