'Soldier' busted during loopy armed escapade

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Tuesday, July 17th 2007, 4:00 AM


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A deranged man who called himself a "soldier of Islam" was arrested in
lower Manhattan yesterday after investigators found a machete and hunting
knife in his car - and a receipt for a 9-mm. handgun in his wallet,
sources said.

Mbye Gaye was spotted by a traffic agent after he drove his car the wrong
way on Worth St. in lower Manhattan.

The 27-year-old Gambian national parked near Federal Plaza, unrolled a
yoga mat on the sidewalk and started praying toward Mecca shortly before 5
p.m., sources said. When a traffic enforcement agent asked him what he was
doing, Gaye mumbled that he was a "soldier of Islam," and that "people
were after him," sources said.

Investigators found the machete and hunting knife lying on the front seat
of his car. Inside Gaye's wallet was a receipt for a 9-mm. Jimenez Arms
pistol.

He was arrested by the NYPD for possession of a weapon and his vehicle was
seized.

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