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Man gets prison for nuclear hoax
San Diego Union Tribune ^
| September 30, 2006
| Onell R. Soto
Posted on 09/30/2006 7:40:48 AM PDT by RS
A Mexican drug addict who smuggled immigrants was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday for triggering a hoax that prompted a national security alert, a coast-to-coast manhunt and fears that terrorists would detonate a nuclear bomb in Boston.
José Ernesto Beltran Quiñonez, 34, apologized in San Diego federal court during the sentencing for falsely telling a 911 operator in January 2005 that two Iraqi men and four Chinese chemists were awaiting an atomic bomb.
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; chickenlittle; immigrantlist; immigration; itcanthappenhere; smuggler; terrorism; wewereluckythistime
Follow-up for all those who went nuts when the story originally broke.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:40:48 AM PDT
by
RS
To: RS
He should have gotten ten years and a tattoo on his forehead reading - "banned for life from USA"
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:45:23 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
To: RS; raccoonradio
A Mexican drug addict who smuggled immigrants was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday for triggering a hoax that prompted a national security alert, a coast-to-coast manhunt and fears that terrorists would detonate a nuclear bomb in Boston."*"
To: martin_fierro
Yes. He's only doing the smuggling and hoax-triggering that Americans won't do...hey Deval, give him a driver's license...he's here to get a "JOB"!!!
To: dennisw
He should have gotten ten years and a tattoo on his forehead reading - "banned for life from USA" I had a modest proposal along those lines...
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posted on
09/30/2006 8:49:06 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Islam delenda est)
To: thoughtomator
That would work. If their ear embarrasses them they just have to grow a Beatle haircut. Like Ringo or Paul
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posted on
09/30/2006 12:45:06 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
To: dennisw
10 years would have been lenient. What a joke!
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posted on
09/30/2006 5:02:41 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
To: thoughtomator
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posted on
09/30/2006 5:04:18 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..
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