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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:04 PM
Original message
"FBI search for dirty bomb in Boston" (Drudge); Boston Globe has story
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 04:56 PM by gauguin57
I first heard this on ABC Radio ... that security teams of some sort are out in the streets of Boston with some sort of radiation detection equipment, apparently on tip someone may be trying to detonate a dirty bomb in the city. Then saw it on Drudge: talking about Massachusetts Emergency Mgt. Agency "in the bunker."

On edit: Boston Globe now has story.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/19/search_underway_for_six_who_may_pose_terrorist_threat_to_boston?mode=PF

Search underway for six who may pose terrorist threat to Boston

"The FBI has triggered a massive manhunt for six people -- four Chinese and two Iraqis -- who may pose a terrorist threat to the city of Boston, law enforcement officials briefed on the threat said today.

"The six are suspected of having come into the United States from Mexico, and may have headed to New York and then to Boston, the target of a planned attack that could involve a lethal substance, possibly chemical or biological or explosive, three law enforcement officials briefed on the threat said.

"The tip about the threat was given to the FBI by only one person, the officials said, and it had not been corroborated as of this afternoon.

"... The state Emergency Management Agency has partially activated its emergency response team, with representatives from the Department of Public Health, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the State Police now holed up in the emergency bunker in Framingham until the threat has passed."
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:08 PM
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1. joy, joy, joy, maybe the chimpster will be happy
as they need this to go after Iran
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:51 PM
Response to Reply #1
53. IMHO, if it happens, "They caused this
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 05:01 PM by MadAsHellNewYorker
to go after Iran"
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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:13 PM
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70. The Chimpster will be overjoyed that it's Boston!
His Saudi buddies - through their Sino-Iraqi surrogates - will irradiate those pointy-headed Northeastern libruls an' teach'em a good lesson!
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:47 PM
Response to Reply #70
97. And all those bleedin' heart libruls across the river in Cambridge!
Why the fuck aren't terra threats EVER in conservative areas? Hmmmm....:nuke:
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:58 PM
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:09 PM
Response to Reply #137
159. I don't get your point.
Please elaborate.
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 08:30 AM
Response to Reply #137
169. Houston? Dallas? Kansas City?
Need I continue?

Some cities are more liberal than others, and those seem to be the cities targeted in these bogus alerts.
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onecitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:16 PM
Response to Reply #70
131. It's 7PM here.......
and I'm picking this up on SW radio. The guy reporting it is freaking out on air. He first mentioned Boston, then Chicago, then DC. I'm not getting much info really. Just tuned in. The guy's name is Steve. I don't know who he is, what his show is or what channel it's on.....just that he's talking about a possible dirty bomb in Boston, or Chicago or DC.
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ExclamationPoint Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:47 PM
Response to Reply #1
98. He is the terrorist that infects us
He probably let the dirty bomber in, I wouldn't think it below him.
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Wisc Badger Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:08 PM
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2. God I pray this is not so
:scared:
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sea dee Donating Member (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:05 PM
Response to Reply #2
62. blame game + DU
I'm somone on DU isn't playing the blame game before anythng even happens.

I'll join you in that prayer.
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:49 PM
Response to Reply #2
154. I'm praying with you!
I hope it's not true. Boston... seems odd. D.C., well, I LIVE 50 MINUTES FROM THERE!

HOLY CRAP! Pray for me, too... please DU'ers! It's had my family quite frightened!
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 01:38 AM
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176. Well, I hope it isn't so too
If you look at it realistically though, it probably isn't. 9/11 happened and that was horrible. The anthrax thing happened next, but I still believe that one was home grown domestic hate groups. They have been using "terror threats" against us ever since to keep our knees knocking long enough to do some other idiotic thing in government. I would be willing to bet it's not going to turn out to be a credible threat. And we will find out something fishy is going on with Bush's next hideous plans. Who knows what they'll do next?
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:09 PM
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3. Bostonians... are you hearing anything about this?
At all?
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shawmut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:31 PM
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31. Yea, it's on the news here
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 04:31 PM by wxmike
I'm watching it now.



on edit - they don't seem to be making a big out of it from what I'm seeing so far.
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:11 PM
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4. EEK! I'm in Downtown Boston
I haven't heard anything yet, but I will see if I can find anything out.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:13 PM
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5. Aw crap.
Hope it's nothing.
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:13 PM
Response to Original message
6. Are we safer Dubyah?
This is really frightening.
BHN
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:13 PM
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7. Maybe
it's just that Mitch Romney farted...
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:26 AM
Response to Reply #7
162. Mitt's suckup opportunity was RUINED
...he had to leave DC and come back to the state that is not his home, but is ours...damn, no chance to lobby for a cabinet position or ambassadorial post.

More in the MA forum on this--they knew about it this morning, from what I could see...
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:15 PM
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8. Remember ABC is CIA TV... and drudge
but still we shuold be hearing more of this on other news places like the AP
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barackmyworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:15 PM
Response to Original message
9. uh oh, supposed to go to a concert tonight downtown!
maybe a bad idea?
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:15 PM
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10. No! Please let it be a false alarm!
Please let it not be true!

Don't wanna think about it being real. It would be so terrible.

:cry:
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:15 PM
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11. one link: "MEMA Placed on Standy Status"
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:16 PM
Response to Reply #11
12. Oh, lovely
I'm praying this is all just bullshit, Bay Staters!
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:18 PM
Response to Reply #11
15. hmm thanks
why do I think there will be no cuonter bush demo tomorrow? State of Emergency nationwide if they find it
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:26 PM
Response to Reply #11
25. MEMA Meeting in BUNKER?
This does not sound good at all.
BHN
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:17 PM
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13. Of course, cable networks are only obsessing about inaugural crap.
Yo! Wolf! INFO, Please!
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LifeDuringWartime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:18 PM
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14. i hope nothing happens!!
we cant afford another war, or the complete loss of civil liberties this might bring
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Big Kahuna Donating Member (903 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:19 PM
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16. Bullshit.
Just the predictable fear-mongering for the Inauguration.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:20 PM
Response to Reply #16
18. yep but try to imagine how this will be spun if they find it
it does not matter who placed it....

Can you say USPACT III nnd a nice vacation in Iran?

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mahina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 01:05 AM
Response to Reply #16
175. Thank you. My thought exactly.
I know it's not just becuase I am so far away. I love Boston, lived in Cambridge, friends in Southie, I just feel strongly that this is pure bullshit designed to cause fear.
F-ing terrorist bush!!
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:20 PM
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17. I have my doubts, this is likely distraction
It will help take the interest off of the exit poll story, which may be spun in Bush's favor but is hardly convincing. I think the next "new Pearl Harbor" is some time off still. They don't want to launch the product before they are ready to move (on Iran).
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:21 PM
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19. PNAC/ * Co is threatening Kerry. n/t
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:00 PM
Response to Reply #19
156. And fucking with a CARPETBAGGER GOP GOVERNOR
...who, IMHO, stole the damn election!
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seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:21 PM
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20. Why are people worrying? I thought Drudge is unreliable.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:22 PM
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21. hmmm. inaugeration of hated * tomorrow=terror alert today?
If this is a real alert, so sorry to you all. To me this seems their standard "see why we re-elected him" (HA!) b.s (meaning he'll keep us safe though 9/11, etc etc etc).
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:25 PM
Response to Reply #21
23. Ok..so what is shrub trying to bump out of the headlines now??
This shit only happens when bad news about shrub is about to break and he needs a media distraction.
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:28 PM
Response to Reply #23
29. EEEEEEEXACTLY!
eom
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:38 PM
Response to Reply #23
43. Condi may niot get confirmed
Occured to me as I sent this to friends...

1.- Mesasge was intended for Boxer, but now Kerry is playing too

Hence why Boston.

2.- Condi may not get confirmed and a philibuster was in the wings, the discusion waas tabled for next week.

3.- We are not in Iran, but even if we were we could not tell you...

Now, now don't call me a cynic and stop sayinig that

Still if they find anything... they will use it as the excuse they need for US Patriot III and finishing to shred the Constitution
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OldVlad Donating Member (151 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:55 PM
Response to Reply #43
55. Cynic, stop saying that ;-)
Condi got confirmed today, its not that. I hope it is something conspiritorial and not a real threat. After watching 24 as much as I do it really wouldn't be hard for some guys to do something like this...
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LifeDuringWartime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:31 PM
Response to Reply #55
87. she was only confirmed by the senate committee
not the full senate.
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:38 PM
Response to Reply #23
140. Because he and his buck toothed hench women LIED about WMD's
Creating a panic will make the collective public think "We can't take any chances and it was better to be safe than sorry in Iraq"
(Never mind that they all lied because you can't be too careful)

The cable news stations are having a field day with revisting terra and 911 events tonight...they have received their talking points.

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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:28 PM
Response to Reply #21
30. Yes, he'll keep us safe the way he did on 9/11.
I wish everyone would pay attention to that.

Meanwhile, re Boston, we have had many alerts since 9/11. Not one of them has been real. And they usually have interesting timing.
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:25 PM
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22. More Rovian mind-control tactics...
I wonder which story they are allowing this story to preempt...
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dqueue Donating Member (226 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:32 PM
Response to Reply #22
34. agreed...
The biggest threat we American citizens face occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW. The media link provided is so completely vague; seems drudge is the only one talking dirty bomb.

Scare the people into staying home tomorrow. Watch the inauguration on TV. But, the revolution will not be televised.
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:52 PM
Response to Reply #22
54. Condi got grilled on FAUX and CNN this am, and she admitted that
they might have made some mistakes, a no no in this administration. She got asked about aluminum tubes, Rummy meeting Saddam, why we took out Milosovich, who killed 1,000's more than Saddam with no loss of US live, If we really have 120,000 trained Iraqi forces why are US troops still there - if we only have 4,000, who's fault is that.

Boxer's, Kerry's and Biden's comments have been carried here and there throughout the day. Mustn't have the sheeple hearing anything to reflect poorly on their messiah President, especially the day before his crowning.

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zann725 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:22 PM
Response to Reply #22
77. That Condi didn't get 100% approval. And Kerry voted 'nay'...
Double-punch retribution?
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phusion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:26 PM
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24. More INFO
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=64303

Federal and state authorities are investigating a nuclear terrorist threat against Boston after a man calling from Mexico told California police that he smuggled two Iraqis and four Chinese over the border, the Boston Herald has learned.
``They got a call from across the border in Mexico to the California Highway Patrol and he said he brought two Iraqis and four Chineses (individuals)across the border and according to him, they stated soon to follow behind them would be some sort of material,'' said a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:08 PM
Response to Reply #24
64. What did Tom Ridge say yesterday?
Homeland Security doesn't seem to think the pourous Borders are a problem.

The Villians were smuggled across the border yesterday?
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:26 PM
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26. "Boston terror threat probed" -- link
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:26 PM
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27. We're gonna get nuked before the Pats-Steelers game?
What savages...how can some people be so ignorant?

GO PATS!!!
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:24 PM
Response to Reply #27
81. you should be happy steelers have home field advantage...
GO STEELERS
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candy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:38 PM
Response to Reply #27
92. Typical Pats fan,as I am !
Passed the Stadium today and said a little prayer for the Pats.

I am just hearing about this terror thing now and I have local news on----- they are doing more talking about the 1 inch of snow we may get than anything else.

Now Tom Menino is coming on---hope I can understand him.
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naturalselection Donating Member (236 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:27 PM
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28. Check out The Boston Herald
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 04:27 PM by naturalselection
as this seems to be where this is coming from.

www.bostonherald.com


edited for dupe, sorry.
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SOS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:40 PM
Response to Reply #28
94. Boston Herald = Fox News
The Boston Herald is a Murdoch operation. If they're pushing this story, it's probably not true.
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:31 PM
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32. I'm not buying this shit anymore.
Sorry.
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:35 PM
Response to Reply #32
40. Ditto. n/t
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 01:47 AM
Response to Reply #40
177. Quick.
Get your duck tape and plastic sheeting ready. We'll build a tent around the White House and duck tape all air passages, then find it and throw it where it belongs...where the monster lives. Two birds with one stone.

In reality, it's probably just another smoke screen and more psychological warfare on America by our so-called government to keep everyone preoccupied while the dipshit in the White House and his fellow turds do something else incredibly stupid.
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newscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:31 PM
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33. Practicing my duck and cover right now.
Say, isn't Condi the National Security Advisor? What are her thoughts on this?

I know we'll nuke Boston before the enemy can!!!

A preemptive strike!!!
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:43 PM
Response to Reply #33
47. don't ask her, she was holed up all week reading
Foreign Policy for Dummies, in preparation for her confirmation hearing.
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newscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:59 PM
Response to Reply #47
106. Dummy is the operative word. n/t
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:32 PM
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35. Didn't they announce that they were doing a 'staged'
terrorist attack at Logan Airport soon.

I'm am sure I saw a post about it yesterday (?), I'll go search and see if I can find it.

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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:33 PM
Response to Reply #35
36. Chimps whole regime is a staged terrorist attack....
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:34 PM
Response to Reply #35
39. Here it is, "Boston airport to be mock terrorist-attack site"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1153861

United Airlines, along with local, state and federal law-enforcement officials, will hold six mock terrorist attacks on commercial airliners at Boston's Logan International Airport in the next six months, culminating in the practice interception of an airliner in flight.

Neither Boston Homeland Security Director Carlo A. Boccia nor Hank Krakowski, a vice president of UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, would say exactly how the airliner interception would be conducted.

United has lent planes to terrorism drills before, including in December, when a Boeing 777 was used in a mock terrorist hostage-taking and rescue in Chicago, Krakowski said.

"We will be using an aircraft," Boccia said, "but I am not going to tell you how."<snip>


http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/10650297.htm?1c
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dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:33 PM
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37. Am I the only paranoid one thinking "distraction"?
I hope the FBI isn't just looking in Boston.
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:36 PM
Response to Reply #37
41. Probably chimps way of shutting down the country...
to keep protests from going on tomorrow. Doesn't matter what happens, nothing will keep him from his inaugural balls..I can hear it now.."he is being kept informed of what is happening while he is partying"....
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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:33 PM
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38. from the boston herald story -- it's all BS
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=64303

... The Massachusetts investigator said much of the man's information sounds far-fetched and investigators have some doubts about the caller's validity because he has not identified himself.

     ``A lot of it doesn't make sense and some of it does,'' said the source. ``It's totally uncorroborated. This all began several days ago as a series of phone calls and they don't know who the caller is. There are some parts of it that just don't make sense and other little pieces of it that fall into place. The information is these people that came into the country are going to New eYork into Boston and the (nuclear) material will follow them.''

     The source said there is speculation the caller may have been ripped off by illegal immigrants he helped over the border and is now trying to exact revenge.
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:43 PM
Response to Reply #38
46. fingers crossed
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 05:00 PM by NorthernSpy
Ever since the OKC bombing, it's seemed as though nothing is too bad to be true.

I'm hoping this is all a hoax and Boston is safe.



(edit: fixed mistake)
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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:37 PM
Response to Reply #38
125. Several days ago?!?!! So why sit on it until the day before the big
"pah-tay"?
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Laurab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:07 PM
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149. Does Rove usually identify himself? NT
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gorbal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:43 PM
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152. This sets a frightening precident
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 10:43 PM by gorbal
You mean all you have to do is call the police incognito with any old tale and it gets on the front page of Drudge and you can make Romney change his dinner plans? All a terrorist really needs is a phone card, and he can get almost as much press as a real bomb.
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:38 PM
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42. TOTAL BULL**IT. Day before inauguration we get "be very afraid"
this administration is corrupt. wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!
:boring: :boring: :boring: :scared: :scared:
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ExclamationPoint Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:50 PM
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100. I'm still not gonna spend a damn dime!
EOM
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musette_sf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:38 PM
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44. Yep, Grudge has his Blue Light Special going on
Wouldn't one think, that since Al Qaida and OBL are supposed to hate Bu$hie so much and vice versa, maybe Houston or Dallas might be a more believable target?

I can only imagine what the phony OBL (or other shadowy figure) tape will say....
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:40 PM
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45. Yeah ... if it's really a big deal, why is NO ONE ELSE reporting it?
I first heard it on ABC Radio -- it was their mention of radiation-detection teams actually in the streets that caught my attention.

But I'm hearing this NOWHERE else. Probably emergency management making a mountain out of a molehill of a report from some unknown dude.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:12 PM
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68. They're sure making a big deal here in BOSTON!
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 05:12 PM by Bluebear
Trying not to panic people but pretty specific to looking for six specific individuals evidently.
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:45 PM
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48. Kennedy and Kerry better STAY AWAY!
This is serious!

Boston???

:wtf: and right before the coronation too!
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anarchy1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:46 PM
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49. Hang on everyone, you "ain't" seen nothing yet.
n/t

It's a fixin to be a wild ride. Hang on or flee?
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kcass1954 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:02 PM
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60. You know, right after the election I was wishing that I could flee...
But hell no - I'm ready for a wild ride! I'm so hoppin' mad about everything that I'm gonna stay and fight. I'm prepared for non-violent civil disobedience. I'm going to keep my 18-yr-old son from going to war.

After I finish up a personal commitment in June, I'm going to find out how to get a petition drive going here. I want to work on getting a state constitutional change to mandate paper ballots only in all Florida elections. I'm not sure that I can lead the charge, but I'm prepared to work on this issue. Wexler (not my rep) says we need paper trails, but he's a reasonable person, and I'm thinking he could be convinced that paper ballots are the only way to go. Anyone in Broward County interested?

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anarchy1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:13 PM
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69. Could be a freeper idgit, I don't know. A rather sxary post, though,
wouldn't you say? I'm done.
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theorist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:49 PM
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50. Remember the last UBL tape?
He said that he wouldn't be targetting blue states. Doesn't get much more blue than Mass.
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phusion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:51 PM
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52. Where?
I didn't hear that...do you have a transcript or something?

Thx.
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theorist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:02 PM
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58. There was some confusion over the translation.
Most US news organizations put out transcripts that didn't reflect the following. They translated the word to mean "country" instead of "state" (as in Indiana is a state). Here's the passage I'm referring to:

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or Al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands, and any (US) state that does not belittle our security automatically guarantees its own security.

http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=312

I take this to mean that red states (particularly Texas and Florida) are going to be the chief targets. Massachusettes, California, and New York should be okay. I could be completely wrong, though. Read the whole thing, UBL says that be * admin is really no different from the dictatorships in the middle east.
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:11 PM
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67. But, is Osama in charge of the Chinese and Iraqis
who are supposedly in Boston with a bomb?

The US has pissed off a lot more than just al Qaeda.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:31 PM
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88. Doesn't make sense...
Why would terrorists come up through Mexico into the US with a dirty bomb and travel all the way to Massachusetts, when all they would need to do is to stop off somewhere in Texas (right next door to Mexico) to do their dirty deed?

Doesn't make any sense at all...
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tlcandie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:50 PM
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101. My question too... I don't get why.. Boston?
They came through the Mexico border went to New York and bypassed it for Boston? It's all starting in Boston...911 and supposedly this.

If I was going to make a BIG show somewhere in another country it would be like China's Bejing, Japan's Tokyo...ya know? Not in some place like Boston. A hit on Boston, IMO, is a US job not a foreign job.

But, hey, what the hell do I know?!?! :shrug:
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:20 PM
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117. Hey, I'm with you on this one...!
:shrug::shrug:

A hit on Boston, IMO, is a US job not a foreign job.

I see your point. No sense taking out a lot of "red staters" if you want a second Pearl Harbor...
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sherilocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 08:24 AM
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168. I used to live in Phoenix and had a second home near the
AZ/Mexico border. I would commute by Greyhound and I sometimes observed strange travel itineraries by mid-easterners, who at first glance could pass as Mexicans. Their clothing, while western style, was neither Mexican or American, and they used 24 hour watches. They spoke neither English or Spanish, which gave them away as non-Mexicans. After the first World Trade Center bombing, there were a few of them, each traveling alone, very nervous, and carrying paper bags for luggage. They traveled into Phoenix, changed buses and then traveled south to Tucson, and then changed to another bus to Mexico. Their language seemed Arabic, but I wasn't sure enough to report them. I suspect that there is a kind of pipeline there where they come in and out of the country.
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:59 PM
Response to Reply #50
56. I don't remember that...
When did you hear that reported?

Do you think the OBL tapes are authentic? Me, I'm not sure.
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ebayfool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:42 AM
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164. Authentic? Don't know, but they are food for thought.
Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech
Monday 01 November 2004, 16:01 Makka Time, 13:01 GMT
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.htm
In conclusion, I tell you in truth, that your security is not in the hands of Kerry, nor Bush, nor al-Qaida. No.

Your security is in your own hands. And every state that doesn't play with our security has automatically guaranteed its own security.



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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:35 PM
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124. Yeah but **shrub** would want blue targeted.....
cuz isn't that where tomorrow's protests would be held?? I read in another post that officials have added NYC into the possible equation. What better way to have an excuse to shut down the cities and say no large groups allowed to gather, etc... he wouldn't add DC to the list <another blue, right??> since that is where he and his fellow repukes will be gathering...
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AngryWhiteLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:51 PM
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51. Just in time for Shrub to champion his "war on terror" tomorrow...ROVE!!!!
Rove's TO DO LIST:

1.) Spread some low level shit amongst the local police agencies about terror possibilities.
2.) Raise the terror color code to scare the shit out of everyone. 3.) Have pictures of police in biohazard suits on the 5pm news
4.) get a good 24 hrs. of pundit chatter going on the cable channels...

...then cutaway to Shrub talking tough on terror during his Inauguration speech.

WELCOME TO THE MANUFACTURING OF AN AMERICAN DICTATOR.

JB
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alexisfree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:01 PM
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57. all of you in boston...
just take care of your selfs...ok?...any news alert tomorrow get that hell out there!!!!!! you hear me!??.. sorry,just worry.. :scared:
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:02 PM
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59. Duck
I guess people aren't scared enough for the inauguration.

:nuke:
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:04 PM
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61. Don't panic.
Given their record for accuracy, I have to think that if the Shrubettes think that there's a bomb in Boston, Boston is probably the safest place on Earth right now. As long as you don't have dark skin, anyway.
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sea dee Donating Member (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:09 PM
Original message
prayers
"Given their record for accuracy, I have to think that if the Shrubettes think that there's a bomb in Boston, Boston is probably the safest place on Earth right now. As long as you don't have dark skin, anyway."

Let us pray you are right :(
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:46 PM
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141. The whole thing is based on: anonymous cell call from mexico so relax-
It's hype.
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sea dee Donating Member (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:09 PM
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65. prayers
"Given their record for accuracy, I have to think that if the Shrubettes think that there's a bomb in Boston, Boston is probably the safest place on Earth right now. As long as you don't have dark skin, anyway."

Let us pray you are right :(
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:29 PM
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86. But they said "radiation"! I have to panic!
Those are scary words: radiation, radioactive, radiological...
:think:

I think a person who believed that he was in imminent danger of being irradiated would agree to anything to make the Bad Thing go away. We all know that some neocons have used the threat of this very scenario to get Americans to approve of torture.

Even if this is a hoax, I worry about what some will try to make of it.

:(
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:08 PM
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63. Gov. Romney to hold press conference approx. 5:30 p.m. EST.
WINS radio said either Mexicans or people who came through Mexico will pass through NYC on the way to Boston with the dirty bomb.
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:09 PM
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66. And we won't see said press conference, because of the CHEESEFEST
going on in D.C. right now. Also known as the pre-inaugural "Celebration of Freedom."

They wouldn't break in for anything important.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:18 PM
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75. So they already know the route in advance?
Why doesn't somebody stop them??

Besides, everyone knows to take the Tappan Zee if you're going up to New England :-)
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:23 PM
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78. Don't be a fool.
They don't know the seat numbers. How could they possibly stop them?
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:26 PM
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82. hmm I wonder what
Mexico did to piss us off?

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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:31 PM
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89. When Canada pissed us off,
they were entering through Canada. Actually, Schumer was mad at the Mohawks. Every word of that terra lert turned out to be false.
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Betty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:14 PM
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71. Chimpy probably sent them
to punish us for not voting for him and for being kind to gay people
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:14 PM
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72. CNN now reporting the story.
Boston officials issued "be on the lookout" for four Chinese chemists and two Iraqis supposedly smuggled into country.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:17 PM
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74. Which sounds like the beginning of a bad joke
4 Chinese chemists and 2 Iraqis walked into a bar...
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:23 PM
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79. LOL! (nt)
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:23 PM
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80. LOL! (nt)
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:16 PM
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73. I hope y'all remembered to stock up on iodine tablets
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 05:16 PM by slackmaster
And plastic sheeting, and duct tape.

:nuke:
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:18 PM
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76. Since when were the Iraqis and Chinese paired up
I guess we need to be on the look out for the Muslim terrorists AND the communists. :shrug:

I call bullshit. They don't release stuff like this if it's real. Why would you tip the people into going into even deeper hiding?
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makhno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:26 PM
Response to Reply #76
83. Common sense prevails
This story is sheer idiocy:

- Iraqis!
- Red Chinamen!
- Porous Mexican border!

And Boston, too. If they said DC or NY, it'd be a bit more believable.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:27 PM
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84. And tomorrow the monkey will talk "tough on terror"
to wrap it all up into a bow.
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maxrandb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:27 PM
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85. Wanna Bet
they will say they got this tip from someone they tortured in GITMO? Then low and behold, torture will once again be the "in" thing. I mean, how have we survived for over 200 years without torturing the shit out of people?

And how convenient that the "terrist" might be from China. Folks, I've been trying to tell everyone that would listen, that this whole "terrist war" thing is all about getting a whack at China.

Chimpy knows that he and the "corporatist" can't stay in power once China's emerging economic power begins to bury us. It's almost ironic that the people who claim to hate communism so much, are the ones that have set this country's economy up to be smashed by China. They are giving away this country, and they're doing it without a single shot being fired.
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:32 PM
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90. So, where's the Mitt Romney press conference? CNN/MSNBC have
Kenny Chesney singing at the alleged "Celebration of Freedom." Puke.

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Damien Donating Member (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:36 PM
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91. On Air America
This just got mentioned on Air America...

Tune in, they should cover it soon. And it's always good to listen to...

www.airamericaradio.com
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:39 PM
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93. Video from 5:16PM
http://www.boston.com/news/necn/

News Alert: FBI Alerts Boston Law Enforcement About Terror Suspects
(1/19/05 5:16 p.m.) Authorities believe that at least one person with terrorist ties has entered the Bay State. There are reports that the individual is on the nation's terror watch list and may have intentions to set off a "dirty bomb." This information has not been confirmed. NECN's Scot Yount has the very latest details available.
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caligirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:45 PM
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96. Is this big bird yellow or is it Bert or Ernie? Sounds like more of the
Bush fear tactics. Any protestors coming to DC from Boston's Logan Airport? How about trains?
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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:50 PM
Response to Reply #93
128. Cat Stevens doesn't have a gig going in Boston, does he? Sorry
to all you New Englanders to make light of this - but you've got to admit it's sounding pretty far stretched.

The calls have been going on for days, it's the "smuggler" that brought them across the border, 4 Chinese Chemists and 2 Iraqis (must have been the lab coats that gave the Chinese chemists away), and on, and on, and on. I can't help but feel that this is somehow for BeezleBush's benefit. Sort of like Ed McMahon setting up the punchline for Johnnie.
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:27 PM
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144.  Photos of Suspected Terror Suspects Released - Video
http://www.boston.com/news/necn/ - hot link at end of the text, near the middle of the page.

Photos of Suspected Terror Suspects Released
(1/19/05 7:15 p.m.) The U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston has released photos of four Chinese Nationals and is asking anyone who sees the men in these photos to call the police or the FBI.
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:58 AM
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165. Last post, I'm going to bed
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/19/fbi_investigating_dirty_bomb_threat_in_boston/

FBI Launches Manhunt Amid Boston Threat Report
By Daisuke Wakabayashi | January 19, 2005

BOSTON (Reuters) - The FBI is seeking to question four Chinese nationals amid unconfirmed reports that they are headed to Boston as part of a possible "dirty bomb" plot, authorities said on Wednesday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. prosecutors in Boston released photographs of four Chinese nationals identified as Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen and Guozhi Lin, and said the four individuals were being sought in connection with an unspecified, uncorroborated threat. "Information was received by federal law enforcement in Boston today originating from an unknown and uncorroborated source regarding an unspecified potential threat," federal prosecutors and the FBI said in a joint statement.
"There is no further specific information regarding the City of Boston nor is there any degree of specificity on the type of potential threat," the statement said. "As is done whenever we receive this type of information, all appropriate investigative steps are taken."

None of the individuals' names had previously appeared on any kind of "watch list," the statement said. Authorities first learned of the potential threat from an anonymous tip, Boston Mayor Tom Menino told reporters. Although not confirmed, the information in the tip was serious enough to prompt Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to cut short his visit to Washington, where he had been due to attend President Bush's inauguration on Thursday. Romney told reporters in Washington he had decided to return to reassure Massachusetts residents that it was safe to be at home. He said the four individuals being sought were not thought to be in Massachusetts but may be headed there.

"It (the threat) is specific in that it mentions a location where the individuals were dropped off. That location is New York. It identifies also a location where a threat might be directed and that location is Boston," Romney said. The release of the photographs came after ABC News reported on Wednesday that teams equipped with radiological sensors were patrolling Boston amid a possible "dirty bomb" threat.

Boston FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said she was not aware of such patrols, and that the information used in the report was not corroborated. She added that the FBI routinely receives such reports and investigates them. Menino reiterated that there was no evidence of a "dirty bomb" plot in Boston. Witnesses in downtown Boston reported few if any signs of heightened police presence on city streets, although one witness said a train conductor on the city's subway system urged commuters to be vigilant and report any suspicious packages.
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:32 PM
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172. Boston Herald (neocon rag): "Find them! Feds hunt ‘terror team’ ..."
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=64402

Find them! Feds hunt ‘terror team’ as pols appeal for calm
By Tom Farmer and Michele McPhee
Thursday, January 20, 2005

Authorities are scouring Boston for four Chinese nationals and two Iraqi men who may pose a nuclear threat to the city based on a report from an unidentified man calling from Mexico who claims to have smuggled them over the U.S. border. ``They got a call from across the border in Mexico to the California Highway Patrol several days ago, and he said he brought two Iraqis and four Chinese (individuals) across the border and according to him, they stated soon to follow behind them would be some sort of (nuclear) material,'' said a law enforcement source. ``He refers to some sort of nuclear material that will follow them through New York up into Boston.''

The threat was serious enough that Mayor Thomas M. Menino ordered Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole and Fire Commissioner Paul Christian and the city's Homeland Security chief into his office at City Hall, where they conducted a conference call with officials from the CIA, FBI, and Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency also activated its bunker in Framingham with a downscaled staff. According to the source, the caller has not identified himself and did not show up for a meeting with federal investigators in California, but he did leave pictures and the names of two Chinese men and two Chinese women - reportedly chemists - at a ``drop'' site at the Mexico-California border. The information also makes reference to something happening ``within four days,'' said another law enforcement source.

Federal authorities in Boston identified the Chinese nationals being sought for questioning as Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen and Guozhi Lin.Sources said investigators have no information on the two Iraqis - including their gender. n Somerville, an MBTA bus driver dropped off two passengers she thought looked like two of the suspects on flyers handed out by transit police. But after police converged on a Dunkin' Donuts near the Assembly Square Mall, the suspects were nowhere to be found. Somerville police said no arrests were made. Menino downplayed the threat, urging residents to partake in their normal activities. ``Public safety is our first priority,'' Menino said, while stressing the report fielded by the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force came from a ``single anonymous source'' and has not been confirmed. Gov. Mitt Romney , in Washington, D.C., for President Bush's inauguration, flew back to Massachusetts last night. ``We have had threats in the past. We take them seriously, even when they're not corroborated,'' he said.

White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told the Herald last night that President Bush was informed of the uncorroborated Boston threat at his daily intelligence briefing yesterday morning. ``I'm shocked it made it into the newspaper because I don't think it is something that has been fully vetted,'' Card said. ``It was during the intelligence briefing . . . the president was given this sketchy intelligence. It was truly sketchy intelligence, but . . . anytime you hear the words that surround this kind of intelligence, it invites greater scrutiny.''

more................
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 08:19 PM
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178. FBI Says Reported Boston Terror Threat Was a False Alarm
FBI says reported Boston terror threat was a false alarm
- BRIAN CAROVILLANO, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

(01-25) 14:43 PST BOSTON (AP) --

The FBI said Tuesday that the possible terrorist plot reported against Boston by a tipster last week was a false alarm. A law enforcement official in Mexico said that a suspected smuggler made the story up to get back at people who failed to pay him. "There were in fact no terrorist plans or activity under way," an FBI statement said. "Because the criminal investigation is ongoing, no further details can be provided at this time."

Jose Ernesto Beltran Quinones was detained over the weekend in Mexicali, a Mexican border town near San Diego. His son, also named Jose, was detained Monday. According to a law enforcement official there, the two men were involved in smuggling Chinese immigrants across the border and told investigators that smugglers had squabbled over a deal, and that one had anonymously called in the false tip to U.S. authorities as revenge. The source, who asked not to be named, did not say which smuggler had made the call.

The official from the Baja California Attorney General's Office said the men told investigators the claim was nothing more than a tall tale. The two were later released; relatives at their houses told reporters Tuesday that they were not at home. The FBI statement did not say whether Quinones and his son had provided the information that allowed the threat to be ruled out, but the bureau did thank Mexican law enforcement agencies for their help. Quinones himself was one of the people wanted for questioning in the alleged plot. The group also included 13 Chinese immigrants and two Iraqis; authorities later determined that one of the Chinese had been in federal custody for more than two months and had no terrorist connections.

Almost immediately, officials stressed that they doubted the credibility of the terror tip.

more at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/01/25/national1604EST0684.DTL
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:44 PM
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95. Screw the Manchurian Candidate, this is the Manchurian Suicide Bomber
What a load of crap.
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:49 PM
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99. Statement from Mayor Menenio 5:47PM
I'm watching NECN Boston.....

"I know nothing about dirty bombs or LNG tankers"

"The info I have call to FBI about 4 chinese nationals, who may be coming to Boston or NY, fbi is tracking down".

very low key

no panic

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newscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:00 PM
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108. Thanks for the translation!!!! n/t
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:02 PM
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110. That's funny I heard him say...
thisllcamefromenormousthreatgoaboutyourbusinessmonitoring.

A good public speaker he is not :)
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newscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:43 PM
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126. He can still give * lessons in eloquence. n/t
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SnowGoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:50 PM
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102. Why would you even set off a dirty bomb,
when you could just put the crap in road salt and spread it everywhere (or starbuck's cups, or drip it from the bottom of your car, or on and on) without anyone even noticing?

Wouldn't you want maximum distribution before it was discovered? A bomb shouts "something important just happened". A quieter way would spread more fear, as people would be asking "how long have we been contaminated? What is the extent of contamination? What have we done to anger god? Should we go kill more gays or dark-skinned people?"

And before you go saying some shite like "don't give them ideas" let me assure you that the ideas are 40 years old, and were invented by our own government - it's nothing 'they' don't already know.
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Rockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:53 PM
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103. Not Scared. I have no worries.
I am NOT taking the Expressway tonight, just in case. The gas tank looms large in my commute!
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:56 PM
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104. and our fearless leader is where?
:eyes:

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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:58 PM
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105. Listening to Kenny Chesney, the Gatlin Brothers and Andrea Bocelli.
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 05:59 PM by gauguin57
(I'm assuming you're referring to Dubya as fearless leader?)

He's giving a folksy speech at the "Celebration of Freedom" (pre-inaugural puke-fest).
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:02 PM
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111. Yes, him...the gutless wonder
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troubleinwinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 05:59 PM
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107. Boston Terrier
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:20 PM
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132. Nice Boston Terrier, but where are the 4 Chinese pugs?
And 2 Mexican Chihuahuas?
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Downtown Hound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:01 PM
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109. George Bush tomorrow-
"Yesterday our nation saw that we are still at war when I heroically thwarted a terrorist plot in our fine city of Boston. Aren't you glad you voted for me?"

Anyone else think it's not a coincidence that this is happening in Boston, John Kerry's home town?
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Quakerfriend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:16 PM
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114. Yes, I had to exact same thought
Just like the US grade Anthrax went to Senators Leahy and Daschle.

What I'm always thinking is, Why on earth don't they ever put out pictures of these boogymen? Most likely, because they don't usually exist.
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:07 PM
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112. 6PM Mayor Menenio
Mayor Menenio has returned from DC.
Mayor knew at 10:30AM.
Emergency bunker opened at 1PM, 1/2 staffed
No info confirmed by relaible sources.
"Go about your business as usual".
"We should go with the facts, we have no info about dirty bombs or LNG tankers."
"Anon tip is 4 Chinese heading to Boston or NYC."

:puke: Gov. Romney returning from DC.
Romney says individuals dropped off in New York, target is Boston.
Have names and id's, law enforcement searching.

Teams with rad sensors are combing the streets of Boston.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:11 PM
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113. Hmmm I think I will ahve to take this time line
for a novel I am writing... yuo think I can use this for some fiction?

NAHHH
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:20 PM
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116. Royalties
I want a cut.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:28 PM
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122. I posted this o to my cellphone text group and some freeper idiot got mad
Some dorkwad from Texas kept sending me obscene text messages.

Does anyone else ever get freeped on their cellphones?

Anyone here interested in burning-up some of this guy's message units for me?
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:21 PM
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118. The streets of Boston
Isn't there a song about that?

<running, ducking for cover>
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:17 PM
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115. Zengron Lin and company
They just showed four Chinese passport photos on the news very briefly and said if you see any of them, contact law enforcement. :shrug:
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UncleSepp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:33 PM
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134. Link to press release with the names of the four
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-19-2005/0002863618&EDATE=

Chinese terrorists,eh? What, are we going to skip Iran and North Korea and just go for broke?
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:25 PM
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119. Proof we are safe
Britt Hume is interviewing Dick Cheney live on Faux. Doesn't look like they are in a bunker.
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:26 PM
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120. It's not live.
Cheney and fam. have just left the "Celebration of Freedom" on the Ellipse near White House, I believe.

But I'm sure he's not in the bunker, anyway.
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:29 PM
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123. Typical, misleading faux
There was nothing on the screen to indicate it was taped.
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pdxmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:27 PM
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121. More crying wolf
This could be a reaction to all the press Condi is getting. Another "Look at me! Look at me!" moment.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:47 PM
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127. it's turning into a non-story
at this point randi played the audio of basically blabla--go about your lives or go shopping or whatever was said (and keep on the look-out for four chineese and two iraqis...yea, sure)

here's where the news will get muddy:

as soon as we hear there is the same "be on the look-out" in california. then we'll know it's the administrations way of saying
f-you to kerry and boxer.
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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:02 PM
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130. Terrorism Investigation May Be Tied To San Diego
Pretty much a non-story. Just thought it would tie in nicely with your "as soon as we hear there is the same "be on the look-out" in california" B-)

http://www.10news.com/news/4109609/detail.html

snip>

An anonymous caller contacted the FBI office in San Diego and reportedly talked about smuggling nuclear material and terrorists across the Mexican border, through New York and specifically to Boston. The reported plan was to detonate a "dirty bomb."

A federal law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity said the tip came from an unidentified individual and is similar to dozens received by law enforcement agencies each week.

The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency was placed on standby, and public safety officials are meeting at the bunker, officials said Wednesday.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 04:01 AM
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167. pretty weird stuff
thanks for sharing it. i didn't actually think there would be a california part to that story! that link you posted was a page no longer available. so i found this:

http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.3866.html

Local FBI Officials Investigating Possible ‘Dirty Bomb’ Threat

Last Updated:
01-19-05 at 6:27PM

Federal investigators Wednesday looked into a report received in San Diego about a supposed plan by a group of illegal immigrants to carry out a "dirty bomb" attack in Boston.

The anonymous tip reportedly was received in recent days by the California Highway Patrol, which then alerted federal authorities.

"We're sharing it with our law enforcement partners (around the country)," San Diego-area FBI Special Agent Jan Caldwell said this afternoon. "We're investigating it aggressively, and that's really all I can say."

The information, which apparently came via a call from an unidentified man in Mexico, remains uncorroborated, according to government officials.

"We get threats of these kinds thousands of times each day to agencies around the country," Caldwell said.

Still, the information was serious enough to put local and federal agencies in Boston on full alert.

The anonymous caller reportedly claimed to have helped smuggle nuclear material and terrorists -- two Iraqis and four Chinese -- across the Mexican border.

The illegal immigrants supposedly planned to travel through New York and specifically to Boston, where they would detonate a dirty bomb.

The caller reportedly threw photos of the four Chinese men and some names over a border fence, but failed to show for a planned meeting with federal investigators.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, whose city succeeded in keeping things safe during the Democratic National Convention last summer, confirmed that the threat is being taken seriously.

"The information I have is that there was an anonymous call made to the FBI about four Chinese nationalists who had some information and they might becoming to Boston or New York," he said. "And ... the FBI is trying to track down the four individuals to question those individuals."

While the FBI in San Diego is leading the investigation, Massachusetts law enforcement officials were reportedly meeting with the CIA, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to determine the severity of the threat.
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hangloose Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 06:58 PM
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129. WHY IS THIS STUFF HAPPENING IN BLUE STATES?
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:50 PM
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135. Would you rather it happen in "red states?"
How about "not at all."
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ChildEyedOneMan Donating Member (27 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:02 PM
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138. It's the city, not the state
How many Red cities can you count on one hand?
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:04 PM
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157. Are you saying Boston is red?
:shrug:
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:29 PM
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133. Oh, please....
A DRUDGE report about a complaint from ONE PERSON. Hmmmm, sounds reliable to me....
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Corgigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:51 PM
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136. Richard Clarke's article in the atlantic
was pretty close, I guess that maybe why the FBI is taking it seriously. It's this month's The Atlantic, cover and article inside. I posted some of it below.

FICTIONAL:


These attacks were every bit as well planned as those of 9/11 and, in typical al-Qaeda fashion, used low-technology means to achieve maximum public impact. What we know about the attacks' planning and execution comes in large part from tourists who provided photos and video from their travels. Without these images we might never have known that the Rataczaks' killers were non-Arab. It would also have been harder to discover that they seem to have entered the United States by driving across the border from Canada.3

In order to save money for the poker tables that night, Peter chose to stay at an RV campground, parking his Winnebago at around 4:00 p.m. Shortly thereafter a casually dressed Asian couple approached the Rataczaks' secluded campsite with a map unfolded in front of them. Only the birds heard the silenced shots. The first murders by the group calling itself al-Qaeda of North America had been carried out.

With the bodies in the back of the darkened camper, the Asian couple drove back toward a safe house they had quietly rented in the hills. (The landlord had no reason to suspect they were fundamentalist Muslims; their religion was of no concern to him. Nor, certainly, would his standard background credit check have turned up their association with an Indonesian al-Qaeda affiliate.) The man quickly backed into the garage and loaded an ammonium nitrate device into the van. His leader had said the device would force the unbelievers in "Sin City" to realize that even in their ignorance they were guilty of conspiring with the Zionists to destroy Islam. After a good night's sleep and his morning prayers, the man carefully helped the woman into her vest and belt before leaving her to finish dressing and praying
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Brian_Expat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:18 PM
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139. Please always remember: DIRTY BOMBS ARE A FRAUD
Dirty bombs are fiction. The radiation they "cause" is so dispersed by the explosion that someone half a mile away would receive a dose roughly as bad as that caused by sunbathing in Southern California for a week or two. Not life threatening or even health threatening.
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will work 4 food Donating Member (184 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:20 PM
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143. Ironically
Friday's "Third Watch" TV show is about a dirty bomb in NYC. Wonder if this is more wag the dog crap?
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:20 PM
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142. I felt something was up yesterday. ( They need an excuse to invade Iran)
If I happen to perish in this attack, MARK MY WORD, I wish NOT for this country to bomb any other country in revenge of my death.


I predicted this may happen yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1499909&mesg_id=1502517

Just a gut feeling. It's weird to now see this action.
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:53 PM
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145. Latest NECN video


Newspeople say the security people say this happens all the time, only difference is the info got to the public.

Also says the tipster may have been a human smuggler whose "cargo" went bad.

=================================

FBI Warns Boston of Possible Attack
(1/19/05 9:24 p.m.) The FBI has notified law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for four people described as possible terror suspects who may be headed to the Boston area. Mayor Tom Menino says the FBI’s information comes from one source, and it has not been corroborated. The state’s emergency bunker in Framingham, Massachusetts has been activated. NECN’s Scot Yount has the very latest. Watch Video
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no_to_war_economy Donating Member (962 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:55 PM
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146. * is down in the polls so
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 09:56 PM by no_to_war_economy
we need a terror alert to boost them back up

utter bullsheet
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:57 PM
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147. but, but, the election is over, these news items shouldn't be still
coming out.
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Last Lemming Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:05 PM
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148. So the Chinese
They are terrorist too! Oh my God. Is that where terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi is hiding. . .in a strip mall chinese joint somewhere near Lowell?

You know, are they running out of ideas?
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Last Lemming Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:07 PM
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150. But
something's going to have to happen--to justify the draft
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dqueue Donating Member (226 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:46 PM
Response to Reply #148
161. Why, yes they are...
Somewhat tinfoily, but your post jarred my memory of this tidbit from mid-October, 2004:


Bin Laden is in China

This confirms Gordon Thomas, a journalist with contacts in the most important intelligence services. The terrorist had reached an agreement with China, which now negotiates its surrender with Bush. It is his greatest electoral trick.

Translated from El Mundo
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:24 PM
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151. Dirty Bomb equals the draft. This the fear they want to create.
A tip given to the FBI, maybe it was G Gordon Liddy who gave him the tip. Create fear that will scare the sheep to death. Then say we have to invade Iran or more of this will happen. We can only invade Iran if we have a draft, sign up sheep, drink more Kool Aid.
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buddysmellgood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:19 AM
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166. Yep and it's no mistake that Bush ordered the attack in Mass. He will have
Iranian finger prints all over this.
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:46 PM
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153. I hate to say this but...
does anyone find this rather strange? I mean, Boston? Not, the Hill or closer... Boston??? I hope the story is wrong, and I hope I am, but I don't get it!

Heard it minutes ago on MSNBC as I go against my oath not to watch them.
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chookie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:55 PM
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155. Gee, isn't there a group that's always badmouthing Massachusetts?
Gee, I KNOW I've heard a lot "chatter" about Massachusetts in recent months, like its some kind of evil place full of bad, bad people.

No, not from Al Qaeda.

From Republicans. Freepers. And even George W.

My guess about this threat: it's a hoax by a freeper who is dumb enough to think he can get away with it (like bin Laden and the Anthrax Asassasin got away with their crimes.) I concur with the FBI that this is suspicious, and appears to be bogus.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:07 PM
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158. Here's the New England Cable VIDEO report on the subject
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blackcat77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:35 AM
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163. Thanks for posting this
It reveals just how sketchy this "threat" is. Nuclear oxide indeed...
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:14 PM
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160. Debunk Protestors, maybe?
I hope it's not true from my heart of hearts. But, I dun-no... Wouldn't it be in the best interest of those out to do us harm to enjoy newsfeeds of disruption between us... maybe it's me. I hope it's not true.

I'm watching the news and don't see anything else about it.
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Stockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 08:33 AM
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170. Just before the coronation? chinese? n/t
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 08:59 AM
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171. In another DU thread it said that the guy who supposedly smuggled
them across the border gave the pictures to the authorities. Now do you really think that you let somebody take pictures that just smuggled yoou across a border?

IF this is no total crap then it's certainly homemade.


----------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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spacedog Donating Member (27 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 02:06 PM
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173. I am in Boston
and i can't really say there's anything like "combing" of the streets. There are a few extra security guards out and about and they searched my car before I came into the parking garage this morning (which they do off and on anyhow). I am on a high floor of a tall-ish building and can see over much of the city and Logan in the distance. All looks normal... no cops, no sirens or flashing lights. Planes are taking off and landing on a normal pace. Sounds like pretty hokey intelligence if you ask me. Perhaps it's the same guy who "knew" about the WMDs in Iraq.
That said... all the chatter here is freaking me out! I am considering being more scared.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 12:36 AM
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174. I was at Logan tonight
It was knee deep in irritated state cops--three cars at Terminal C alone. Cold as a welldigger's ass, people trying to pick people up, and being waved away from the curb as their parties were trying to get the trunks of the cars open to put their suitcases in. Way over the top. At least the HOV was open tonight (the other day they closed it, hours before the announcement of any drama with this dirty bomb thing, and had cop cars every hundred yards, pulling over WHITE TRUCKS--10 footers, 16 footers, and 18 wheelers--ALL WHITE, no colors) but tonight the Callahan was taken down to one lane. That could be cracks, but it could be some odd "let's see who's going through the tunnel" game, too. Who knows what the hell the real story is? Whatever it is, it's either total bullshit, or they aren't telling us what the real threat is.

If there's any truth to the dirty bomb thing, the way they 'comb the streets' is to put guys, usually in civvies, walking around with these handheld detectors that can fit in a pocket. You wouldn't see them, notice them, be aware of them. They'd look like any old cold asshole going out for a drink at the bah, or going to get a cuppa coffee and a pay-pah.
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