Authorities Rounding Up 20 Boston Airport Workers

Reuters/Yahoo! ^ | Wed Feb 27,10:42 AM ET | Reuters

[thesharkboy]

Wed Feb 27,10:42 AM ET

BOSTON (Reuters) - Federal authorities Wednesday began rounding up as many as 20 workers at Logan International airport, where the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11 took off, a spokeswoman said.

"We are seeking the arrest of 20 employees of various companies that work at Logan," Boston's main commercial airport, said Samantha Martin, a spokeswoman at the office of U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan.

Martin declined comment on why law enforcement was arresting the workers. She also declined comment on a local radio report that said the suspects would be charged with having false Social Security (news - web sites) numbers that gave them access to the airport.

She said the arrests started very early Wednesday and that so far some 15 people had been taken into custody. A news conference was scheduled for 2:30 p.m. EST.

On Sept. 11, two jumbo jets were hijacked after leaving Logan and flown into the twin towers in New York. The hijack attacks, along with another that hit the Pentagon (news - web sites) and a fourth that crashed in Pennsylvania, killed more than 3,000 people.

[Miss Marple]

Just heard this on Fox. I think the DOJ has been very busy while everyone was watching Afghanistan.

[RoughDobermann]

I wonder why it has taken so long to round up these people. Gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling that these, perhaps, bad guys have still had access to the airport for five months.

[Miss Marple]

Perhaps they were being watched for other contacts.

[OldFriend]

I believe it was at SeaTac in WA.....that they rounded up airport employees AND pilots with phony documentation. We probably need a thousand more well trained people at the Justice Department. Too bad Ashcroft inherited the cess pool left behind by Freeh and company. Pray for America.

[Cold Heat]

This is all part of the illegal arab roundup that was announced earier.

[aculeus]

Bump for bigger and better roundups.

[pabianice]

Bet you a day's pay that they were on expired "student" visas, protected by the various communist faculty people at Harvard, et al, and in the State House. When Dukakis was governor, his administration generated fraudulent social security numbers to illegal aliens so they could stay in the US. After Kabul, the US should do some "nation building" in Cambridge, MA.

[Cold Heat]

earier=earlier..............Ahhhhsooooo!

[DoctorMichael]

Remember folks.................The Director of the airport at the time (now replaced) got the position by political backscratching (typical of Taxachusetts politics) and had no clue or experience on how to either run an airport or provide security for one.

[Sabertooth]

Federal authorities Wednesday began rounding up as many as 20 workers at Logan International airport, where the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11 took off, a spokeswoman

You call this Breaking News?

Look at the date on this article, Septemb--

Oh.

I hope we got the approval of the mullahs before this hasty action.

[RoughDobermann]

Maybe, but if so, let's hope that they were being watched VERY closely. What if they were/are baggage handlers or food loaders? How hard would it be for them to add a special little package onto an aircraft? Could they be watched closely enough to prevent that?

[Semper Paratus]

Green airport(RI) for me!

[csvset]

Federal authorities FIB, INS ?

[AppyPappy]

No habla

[eno_]

If it's 20 at BOS, how many would you guess at JFK? Nawwwwww, there could never have been a bomb on AA587.

[freedomson]

It is safe to jump in the shower now, isn't it?

[1Old Pro]

Good, Logan needs a clean-up.

[honway]

Interesting development here. It would be good to know if any of the twenty had links to Al-Hussaini.

[concerned about politics]

Green airport(RI) for me!

Ours is blue.