"We know what the London [train bombers] looked like. We know what the embassy bombers looked like in Africa. We know what the Cole bombers looked like."

The comments by Safir, who presided over much of New York City's decline in crime under former mayor Rudy Giuliani, were sharply at odds with the anti-terror policies of Giuliani's successor, Michael Bloomberg, who said just two weeks ago:

"I think if we've learned anything, it is, you can't predict what a terrorist looks like."

Bloomberg has strictly forbidden any kind of police profiling whatsoever, requiring the NYPD to keep records of subway searches to ensure that all racial groups are being targeted equally.

But ex-Commissioner Safir said that kind of approach is a waste of time, contending that "using information on the profile of what a terrorist looks like is smart and intelligent anti-terrorism work."

"Let's face it," he added. "We have not had 75-year-old grandmothers with shopping bags blowing up subway trains or embassies."

"Use common sense," Safir urged. "The reality is, we are at war. We know what the enemy looks like. And to ignore that is ignoring good policy on dealing with terrorists."

The NYPD's former top cop said he favors proposed legislation by New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind that would overturn the state ban on racial profiling.

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