{"id":1330,"date":"2006-07-24T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/moral_of_the_story_refrain_from_lighting_up_no_matter_how_long_you_have_to_wait_for_the_7.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:56:07","slug":"moral_of_the_st_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/moral_of_the_st_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Moral Of The Story: Refrain From Lighting Up, No Matter How Long You Have To Wait For The 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smoking on the subway platform is dumb* but doing it when your name is on the terrorist watch list is just dumb luck<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A man on the national terrorist watch list was smoked out by a sharp-eyed undercover cop yesterday, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Nayyar had a Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association card on him from a relative who is on the force, police sources said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

After investigators confirmed his address and his employment, they decided that he was “not a player” in terrorism, a law-enforcement source said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it didn’t end there:<\/p>\n

He was released into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for being in the United States illegally, sources said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*You’d be surprised how many undercover cops seem to be looking out for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smoking on the subway platform is dumb* but doing it when your name is on the terrorist watch list is just dumb luck: 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}