Posted on 09/12/2001 8:53:28 PM PDT by t-shirt
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:36:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BOSTON (AP) -- Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has strong family ties and a group of supporters in Boston, where the two hijacked airliners that demolished the World Trade Center took off.
One of bin Laden's brothers set up scholarship funds at Harvard, while another relative owns six condominiums in an expensive complex in the Charlestown section of Boston. Two bin Laden associates once worked as Boston cab drivers, including one who was jailed in Jordan on charges of plotting to blow up a hotel full of Americans and Israelis.
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I bet the FBI is pressuring AP and various papers that had it posted on their sites and ready to print tonight/morning to pull it..???
The FBI has known all this before so why didn't they look into this and act more before?
Especially since bin Laden was threatening something really big just a couple weeks ago!
Please
FBI turns to Internet for clues in Tuesday's attacks
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is serving search warrants to major Internet service providers in order to get information about an e-mail address believed to be connected to Tuesday's terrorist attacks.
Investigators visited the nation's top Internet access companies Wednesday morning, company officials said.
"They wanted to know what we have on our network, and our logs about this (e-mail) address, if that address has flowed through our network at any time," according to an executive at Atlanta-based Earthlink, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The executive said the e-mail address did not belong to Earthlink, and that the company was told to expect more warrants as the investigation continues.
"They said they're going to all the ISPs," the executive said.
America Online spokesman Andrew Weinstein said the company is "cooperating fully and immediately with law enforcement agencies in their investigations."
Shannon Stubo of Yahoo!, which runs a Web-based e-mail service, also said the company was cooperating fully.
A spokesman for Microsoft's Internet divisions would only say that the company regularly works with law enforcement.
The FBI would only say that it is investigating the attacks vigorously throughout the United States.
Agents did not install the Carnivore e-mail surveillance device on Earthlink's computers, but relied instead on Earthlink's own reports. In the past, the company has gone to court to resist installing Carnivore.
Alison Bowman, a spokeswoman at cable Internet company ExciteatHome, said she was not aware of any warrants issued there but that the company would cooperate with authorities.
"We've always cooperated with the authorities when they've asked us for information," Bowman said.
Ya'think old fatfart Kennedy would allow Bahston to be besmirched in any way?
Now that we have a REAL President instead of a fake blow-up sex toy with hair you can color to preference, that may well change.
Until 9-11, if the FBI so much as looked at these Boston Bin Laden guys twice in one month, the everloving ACLU and the Arab American Anti Defamation crowd would be scream "race profiling" and "religious bigotry", and Katie Couric and Dan Rather and Peter Jennings would crucify them for their police state tactics.
Now they turn around after 9-11 and say "what lazy incompetent boobs at the FBI!"
Same deal with the CIA and the lack of informants and spies in the terrorist camps. Before 9-11, if the CIA dealt with some bloody handed terrorist informant, Rather and Jennings would crucify them, "60-Minutes" would faint dead away at the eeee-villl CIA for dealing with terrorists. Now the same guys turn around and say "where was the CIA!!!"
I spit in all their lamestream media faces.
You're absolutely right. The fruits of Political Correctness are springing forth.
Judge Mark Wolf says "White Bulger, Steven "the rifleman" Flemmi" and I forget the third guy, BUT YOU know what I am talking about.
The FBI has had it's share of problems.
And if it is 14 hours old even why is it marked 9:13 PM tonight?
And even if it were 14 hours old how does that change the importance of it?
Another perspective. First, how many Arab-non citizens are there in the US, at least a few thousand on any given day, right?
A serial killer is on the loose and we know it's a white guy with brown hair, but with nothing else - do they wait for a sketch, or arrest every white guy with brown hair in the UNITED STATES?
Do you think there was a class on how to run the Jihad?
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