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Boston Officials Alerted About Possible Terror Suspects
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/4108755/detail.html | POSTED: 3:35 pm EST January 19, 2005 | http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/4108755/detail.html

Posted on 01/19/2005 3:32:12 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK

BOSTON -- The FBI notified law enforcement agencies in Boston to be on the lookout for several people described as possible terror suspects who may be headed to the city Wednesday.

An uncorroborated report said that four illegal immigrants from the California/Mexico border were on their way to Boston via New York carrying some sort of explosive material. So far, no threat has been corroborated. The immigrants have been identified as Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen and Guozhi Lin.

"We have no information at this time that is confirmed by reliable sources. We have information from one single source," Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said, stressing there was a lot of uncorroborated information being reported.

Nowhere in the phone call that was routed to California law enforcement officials and the FBI, Boeri said, were the words nuclear material or dirty bomb used. According to the report, four illegal Chinese immigrants were headed to Boston with some sort of material. It was not clear to those trying to sort out the call what type of material they were talking about.

"Public safety is our first priority. When it comes to public safety


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
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To: Happy2BMe

I can understand Qaeda smuggling immigrants and nuclear material into the US through Mexico. What I can't understand is targeting Boston instead of San Diego or LA or even San Francisco if they cross that border. If they wanted Boston, it just seems more convenient to enter through Canada.


21 posted on 01/19/2005 4:05:41 PM PST by formercalifornian (Daschle b-gone!)
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To: formercalifornian

Obviously, Boston is NOT the real target. Think.


22 posted on 01/19/2005 4:07:00 PM PST by Happy2BMe ("Islam fears democracy worse than anything If the imams can't control it - they will kill it.)
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To: spodefly







23 posted on 01/19/2005 4:08:17 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Happy2BMe

Okay. I'll go get my tin foil so I can think more clearly.


24 posted on 01/19/2005 4:08:54 PM PST by formercalifornian (Daschle b-gone!)
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To: formercalifornian

Get your entire suit on. Not just the hat. And get a radiation suit also if you've got it.


25 posted on 01/19/2005 4:15:01 PM PST by Happy2BMe ("Islam fears democracy worse than anything If the imams can't control it - they will kill it.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
"Romey said before he left Washington. "

Wise man.

Romey said, before leaving, that he can be reached at his childhood home in Podunk, Kansas. (Pop. 630)

26 posted on 01/19/2005 4:18:16 PM PST by blam
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Naw, they aren't up to no good. John Kerry invited them to meet with him, and they are going to have a good ol' America-bashing party.


27 posted on 01/19/2005 4:23:17 PM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: skeeter
Wonder how they got their names so quickly?

from the California drivers licenses they picked up at a drive thru near Los Angeles...
28 posted on 01/19/2005 4:26:11 PM PST by Republicus2001
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To: Republicus2001
Wonder how they got their names so quickly?

Sean Hannity said an ap report said it was 4 mexicans and 2 Iraqis they were looking for that was about 430 eastern

Then they came back it was an anonymous phone call from mexico that tipped off homeland security then the state police to the suspects
29 posted on 01/19/2005 4:31:31 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: blam
I heard on the news that Romey went back to Mass. to deal with this situation.
30 posted on 01/19/2005 4:32:18 PM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Allow me to add the emphasis where it belongs:

An uncorroborated report said that four illegal immigrants from the California/Mexico border were on their way to Boston via New York carrying some sort of explosive material.

Helloooo!!!!!
31 posted on 01/19/2005 4:35:34 PM PST by Citizen James (Well done is better than well said. - B. Franklin)
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To: zert_28
"I heard on the news that Romey went back to Mass. to deal with this situation."

Sorry, I thought my comment would be reconized as being tongue-in-cheek.

32 posted on 01/19/2005 4:37:25 PM PST by blam
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To: rocksblues
This story makes my blood boil with anger towards the politicians in Washington who do nothing about our border security.The terrorist could be crossing our border every day for all we know.All we keep hearing from Washington is that they're taking national security seriously but I can't see how when a terrorist can walk right into the country without a problem.Maybe the four guys are here to have a party with the twenty five Chechens.
33 posted on 01/19/2005 4:45:30 PM PST by rdcorso (Did I mention I was in Vietnam where I lost my backbone? Spineless John)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
More from CNN...

Law enforcement sources said the caller said four Chinese chemists and two Iraqis were smuggled over the U.S. border from Mexico and were headed to Boston, either carrying or planning to receive some unspecified dangerous materials.

34 posted on 01/19/2005 4:46:04 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: Sender
But it was pointed out that why would someone carrying terrorist materials confide their secret plans to the smuggler?

Maybe he got real suspicious when he came across four ch!nks trying to swim across the Rio Grande instead of entering the U.S. in shipping containers like they're supposed to.

35 posted on 01/19/2005 4:48:38 PM PST by Alberta's Child (It could be worse . . . I could've missed my calling.)
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To: sionnsar

Not likely. The Muslims in the west of China don't take Han-sounding names. I learned this recently because we have a applicant to our graduate program from Xinjiang province, and neither his name nor any of his references' names sound Chinese. They're odd, Turkic but not stereotypically Muslim-sounding names.


36 posted on 01/19/2005 4:48:50 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
If they are dumb enough to travel via 95/84/90 through Hartford they will never make it. That route has been very heavily patrolled and monitored for years due to the war on drugs.
There has been something brewing in East Boston for 6 months or more. But the guys on the case are also still looking for whitey bulger for 10 years or so.
37 posted on 01/19/2005 4:50:55 PM PST by ProudVet77 (I'm ready for some NASCAR!)
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To: blam

>>Romey said, before leaving, that he can be reached at his childhood home in Podunk, Kansas. (Pop. 630)

More than likely Podunk, MA

"there was a Podunk near Worcester, Massachusetts.

The Herald mounted an expedition to find this mythical Podunk. Found it, they did. The first found Podunk was an unincorporated community 15 miles west of Worcester."

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Podunk


38 posted on 01/19/2005 4:53:14 PM PST by Betis70 (I'm only Left Wing when I play hockey)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

there's lots of targets between ca/mexico and boston...


39 posted on 01/19/2005 4:53:34 PM PST by freddiedavis
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To: Happy2BMe

Hang 'em High!


40 posted on 01/19/2005 4:59:53 PM PST by blackie
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