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1/26 Boston Terrorists a Hoax:
http://csua.org/u/au9 (Reuters)
In other news, you can win an iPod if you send email to
president@whitehouse.gov with the subject "I Will Kill You."
\_ they did say (at the same time the photos were being splashed
and freepers forums were in pandemonium) that the tip was
completely uncorroborated
\_ That was just an escape clause to disavow any responsibility.
How about shouting fire in a crowded theatre and add that it is
uncorroborated? Even after 9/11, the fed is not supposed to
announce false rumor or slander using government priviledge and
prestige, and it hasn't until now. It was always the press who
went to the fed to ask for details of some actions taken, but
this time the fed went to the press time and again to promote
a tall tale. One has to be very naive not to conclude this is
deliberate at some level of the government. How many "anonymous
tips" as far fetched as this got daily joint press announcement
by the US attorney office and fbi? They are more vigilant at
checking out all the rumors, they are raising alert level without
specifying terror threats, but it is extraordinary to turn a 6th
grade joke into a worldwide man hunt. A lot people (including
those outside US as this was a BIG news everywhere) now mentally
associate China/Chinese with terrorism on account of that news
alone. The revelation that this was a hoax was published much
less extensively, with no fanfare. Many of those who did notice
it, from Safire to washtime to freeper to libertypost would just
complain that Chinese have an easy way around the justcie system,
and they have Wen Hoo Lee, the army chaplain, the LA businesswoma
and now the "nuclear oxide" as "proof." Intended or not, this
is the consequence, and somewhere some people are celebrating.
\_ Who? You're saying this is a government conspiracy to make
Chinese people look bad?
\_ Isn't the motd full of idiots that hates Chinese?
\_ You make it sound as though motd needs an excuse to
hate you.
\_ Be grateful for Bin Ladin, if it weren't for him,
Bush might be invading China right now. Without a public
enemy, how can he fuck with all those budget surpluses?
\_ Awwwwwwwwww. |
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| csua.org/u/au9 -> www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7428367 MORE BOSTON (Reuters) - The FBI said on Tuesday there was "no credibility" to a reported threat against Boston last week that spurred a manhunt for 14 people and had police using radiation sensors in the city's subway syst em. Nearly a week after the unconfirmed threat was first reported, the Federa l Bureau of Investigation said it was withdrawing its request for inform ation on the whereabouts of the individuals, most of them Chinese. "It has been determined that the threat had no credibility," the FBI said in a statement on its Web site. "While the threat information proceeded from criminal activity (an alien smuggling organization) there were in fact no terrorist plans or activit y under way," it said. The announcement came just days after the FBI conceded that one of the pe ople it was seeking for questioning had already been in US custody for more than two months. It said Mei Xia Dong, identified last week as a male, was a woman who was arrested for an immigration violation on Nov. She has been in custody ever since in the San Diego, California, area. Media reports last Wednesday referred to a plot to explode a "dirty bomb, " which disperses low-level radioactive material, in Boston. The FBI never gave details of the plot, calling it an unconfirmed, potent ial threat against Boston. Officials said an anonymous tip to California law enforcement was at the root of the threat. The tip prompted police in Boston to boost security and had officials pos ting leaflets in the city's subway system with photographs of four of th e "persons of interest" identified by the FBI. Mitt Romney said he was gr owing less concerned about the situation, and officials speculated that the tip was a hoax. |