[FreedomCalls]

For Immediate Release January 22, 2005	Washington D.C. FBI National Press Office
UPDATE ON PERSONS SOUGHT FOR QUESTIONING ON CITY OF BOSTON THREAT Washington , D.C. - The FBI announces that Mei Xia Dong, Chinese/female (originally thought to be male), was located upon being identified as one of 14 subjects allegedly involved in a suspected Boston terror plot. Mei Xia Dong was located in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility in the San Diego , CA , area. She was arrested for an immigration violation by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents on November 11, 2004 , and had remained in custody since that time. Investigation has determined that Mei Xia Dong paid an undisclosed sum to human smugglers to be brought into the United States through Mexico .  It appears at this time that Mei Xia Dong's motives for entering the U.S. may have been for economic reasons.  The investigation thus far does not tie her to any terrorist group. The FBI continues to work with the Department of Homeland Security as well as our state and local law enforcement partners to resolve this matter. It should be noted that, to date, none of the original and anonymous information linking Mei Xia Dong and the 13 others to terrorism has been corroborated. The FBI remains interested in information on the remaining 13 persons identified in press releases issued on January 19 and 20, as follows: 1)      Zengrong Lin 2)      Wen Quin Zheng 3)      Xiujin Chen 4)      Guozhi Lin 5)      Yu Xian Weng , female, possible date of birth (DOB) 4/5/64 and Chinese passport #P5997636 or DOB 10/4/63 and Chinese passport #G07457027 6)      Qinquan Lin , or Qiquan Lin, male, possible DOB 3/6/83 and Chinese passport #G04152197 7)      Liqiang Liang, male, possible DOB 9/1/76 and Chinese passport #G07074257 8)      Min Xiu Xie, male, possible DOB 11/21/77 and Chinese passport #G08386268 9)      Xiang Wei Liu, or Xing Wei Liu, male, possible DOB 5/30/82 and Chinese passport #G053490L8 10)     Xiuming Chen, male 11)     Cheng Yin Liu, male 12)     Zao Yun Wang, male 13)     Jose Ernesto Beltran Quinones, male We ask that anyone with information about these individuals bring it to the attention of the FBI at (617) 742-5533; to their closest FBI office (contact information for field offices is located at http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm ); or to the FBI tipline at http://tips.fbi.gov. Again we want to stress to everyone that at this time the threat information is uncorroborated and of unknown reliability. All law enforcement agencies are working together to address the issue.

[daybreakcoming]

Hope you will update us. Too often IMO, we hear these things and then we never hear "the rest of the story". Kinda like being a mushroom.
And welcome to Free Republic. A most excellent but disturbing first post.

[Indie]

A hellfire would have worked quite nicely..and should be used frequently on planes sneaking across the border, if in fact this one was...LOL. KABOOM! [Ah but then no judge would be able to send them back to try again]

[Mockingbird For Short]

Thanks for the info, Elephant. I'm "here", too.

[AnimalLover]

BIG BUMP

[twntaipan]

Was the plane forced down? If so, how?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Welcome to Free Republic.

Good work on posting this for us, to read.

Thanks.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post/info.

I see there are updates posted here, too. Heads up, Texans.

Homeland Security Agents Force
Plane to Land in San Antonio

Excerpt:

This is breaking here in San Anonio. A single engine plane has been forced down at Stenson Field south of San Antonio. Homeland Security, DPS and SAPD are on the scene. They are waiting for a Chinese tranlator but they have Chinese illegals in custody and said that the pilot was someone Homeland Security has been looking for.

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Texas ping list!. . .don't be shy.
No, you don't HAVE to be a Texan to get on this list!

[Calpernia]

Bump to Homeland Security!!!!!

[God bless Texas]

I guess putting SAMs on the border is out of the question?

[dfwright]

Thanks for the info! There are several of us from the San Antonio area on FR.

[snopercod]

ping

[csvset]

Fyi

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Ah sow.... Charlie Chan say, "Gleat wolk by Homerand Seculity"!

[planekT]

Welcome to Free Republic my fellow San Antonian!

[KMC1]

Chinese Illegals? And how did they get here? A Southern border crossing perhaps...?

[montag813]

I commend all FReepers to watch the BBC film "Dirty War", now playing on HBO, randomly. It is by far the most accurate depiction thus far of what we will most certainly face in the future. No sugar-coating, no Jack Bauer rush in to save us (although I do love "24")...just raw reality. I also recommend THIS FR THREAD on the subject which includes some stunning info on what even a smaller device would do to D.C. and NYC.

[martin_fierro]

Hey, they're just doing the irradiating that Americans don't want to do.

[rdl6989]

That's a real good post, welcome to FR. The fact that the people on the plane are Chinese and are being sought by the FBI is interesting, but also confusing. The threat to Boston involving Chinese was a hoax (apparently).
See below link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328331/posts

[piasa]

Sometimes his name is also spelled Hamid Afzal.