AP source: Queens workers take suspicious trash to police

NEWSDAY ^ | March 17, 2004, 5:39 PM EST | By DONNA DE LA CRUZ

[RaceBannon]

AP source: Queens workers take suspicious trash to police

By DONNA DE LA CRUZ Associated Press Writer

March 17, 2004, 5:39 PM EST

NEW YORK -- A box containing material that warned about terrorist activities and books on electronic circuitry and aircraft was found by sanitation workers collecting garbage on a Queens street on Wednesday and was taken to a police precinct, a high-level police source told The Associated Press.

As a precaution, police scanned the workers' garbage truck for radioactivity and got a reading high enough to prompt them to evacuate the 114th Precinct, but the box and the truck's contents were later deemed not hazardous, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

[Enduring Freedom]

It boggles the mind that anyone living in the vicinity of a massive and unprovoked terrorist attack by killers who vow the destruction of NYC would prefer Qaery.

It is a malaise of psychological self-flagration perhaps.

Or cowardice.

[F14 Pilot]

Roger, I got it.

[piasa]

A RELATED LINK, i THINK...raid of his place was the same day as your article:

MARCH 17, 2004 : (CT : NUCLEAR ENGINEER SYED R MASWOOD’S HOME IS RAIDED-— See BIF, BABAR AHMAD {Cousin of MOHAMMED NAEEM NOOR KHAN, FINSBURYPARKCELL}) Federal agents raided Maswood’s home March 17, seizing computer equipment and financial records, he said. Investigators discovered his e-mail address among files used to maintain a Web site that funneled money and equipment to terrorists, according to the affidavit, which was unsealed Friday in New Haven as part of an international terrorism probe. From his home, Maswood runs North American Technical Services, which exports nuclear detection instruments, water treatment devices and environmental equipment to Middle East and Asian governments. -— “Feds Investigating Conn. Nuclear Engineer In Terror Case,” AP via WNBC.com, POSTED: 1:13 pm EDT August 11, 2004 UPDATED: 1:17 pm EDT August 11, 2004 , http://www.wnbc.com/news/3643309/detail.html