Posted on 01/20/2005 7:24:52 AM PST by johnny7
Authorities are scouring Boston for four Chinese nationals and two Iraqi men who may pose a nuclear threat to the city based on a report from an unidentified man calling from Mexico who claims to have smuggled them over the U.S. border.
“They got a call from across the border in Mexico to the California Highway Patrol several days ago, and he said he brought two Iraqis and four Chinese (individuals) across the border and according to him, they stated soon to follow behind them would be some sort of (nuclear) material,'' said a law enforcement source. “He refers to some sort of nuclear material that will follow them through New York up into Boston.” The threat was serious enough that Mayor Thomas M. Menino ordered Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole and Fire Commissioner Paul Christian and the city's Homeland Security chief into his office at City Hall, where they conducted a conference call with officials from the CIA, FBI, and Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency also activated its bunker in Framingham with a downscaled staff.
According to the source, the caller has not identified himself and did not show up for a meeting with federal investigators in California, but he did leave pictures and the names of two Chinese men and two Chinese women - reportedly chemists - at a ``drop'' site at the Mexico-California border. The information also makes reference to something happening ``within four days,'' said another law enforcement source. Federal authorities in Boston identified the Chinese nationals being sought for questioning as Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen and Guozhi Lin.Sources said investigators have no information on the two Iraqis - including their gender.
In Somerville, an MBTA bus driver dropped off two passengers she thought looked like two of the suspects on flyers handed out by transit police. But after police converged on a Dunkin' Donuts near the Assembly Square Mall, the suspects were nowhere to be found. Somerville police said no arrests were made. Menino downplayed the threat, urging residents to partake in their normal activities. ``Public safety is our first priority,'' Menino said, while stressing the report fielded by the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force came from a ``single anonymous source'' and has not been confirmed. Gov. Mitt Romney, in Washington, D.C., for President Bush's inauguration, flew back to Massachusetts last night. ``We have had threats in the past. We take them seriously, even when they're not corroborated,'' he said.
White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told the Herald last night that President Bush was informed of the uncorroborated Boston threat at his daily intelligence briefing yesterday morning. “I'm shocked it made it into the newspaper because I don't think it is something that has been fully vetted,'' Card said. ``It was during the intelligence briefing . . . the president was given this sketchy intelligence. It was truly sketchy intelligence, but . . . anytime you hear the words that surround this kind of intelligence, it invites greater scrutiny.'' Attorney General Tom Reilly also downplayed the seriousness of the tip last night. ``We don't even know if these individuals are in the country,'' Reilly said, adding ``it's information that needs to be followed up.''
Sources said much of the man's information sounds far-fetched and investigators have some doubts about the caller's validity because he has not identified himself. ``A lot of it doesn't make sense and some of it does,'' said one source. ``It's totally uncorroborated. This all began several days ago as a series of phone calls and they don't know who the caller is. There are some parts of it that just don't make sense and other little pieces of it that fall into place.'' Another source said investigators have located an area along the U.S. border that matches the man's description of where he smuggled the six people across. “They have corroborated the spot where he claims to have taken them over,'' said the source.
Multiple sources said there is speculation the caller may have been ripped off by the illegal aliens and is now trying to exact revenge. “It's very weird. Even if (the Iraqis and Chinese) were going to do something, why would they be blabbing to the yahoo smuggling them across the border?'' one source noted. “You have to wonder if they screwed him on a deal but you have to treat it seriously and the issue is how do you put it out to the public and not get everybody (in a panic)?“
I can just see that overweight, overpaid, 2200-strong, Boston police force making sure that they don't profile or violate anyones privacy.
Interesting sidelight: After 9/111, Ed Markey... a MA (D)Rep., called for AA batteries to be positioned around nuclear facilities. Shades of the movie '1941'!
If this is for real.
Mei Xia Dong DOB: 05/30/1982
Xiuming Chen
Chang Yin Liu
Xiujin Chen DOB: 12/15/1984
Guozhi Lin DOB: 03/08/1991
Zengrong Lin DOB: 10/27/1982
Yu Xiang Weng DOB: 10/04/1963 or 04/05/1964
Qiquan Lin
Min Xiu Xie DOB: 11/21/1977
Xing Wei Liu
Liqiang Liang
Per BOLO: "If located, detain and hold for questioning. Suspects are believed to have entered the US via New York or Boston.
Two thoughts. I wonder how the "yahoo" managed to get photos of these four. And how did the Federal authorities get the credit for identifing them when the informant provided their names?
That makes this person, what, 13?
Most of those cops are Italian and Irish Americans -- they wouldn't go for PC if the mayor and his Police Commissioner weren't on their backs.
Yeah, that's an interesting observation.
Smacks of Palestinians using teenagers to do their dirty work...
This is hilarious. A coyote with a heart of gold? Suuure.
ANSWER.......POLICE THE BORDERS STRONGLY!!!!!!
YES WITH NATIONAL GUARD.
STOP ILLEGAL TRASH from flooding in like a tsunami.
Yes, I am screaming because this is a serious issue and someone needs to listen including our soon to be newly inaugarated President. I would say, for there to be Freedom Mr President there must be protection!!
It's a hoax by a secure borders advocate.
My speculation:
You're E.O.M. or Daleel al Mohajid.
Maybe not a heart of gold, but a heart intent on profits--after all, if the US is significantly damaged, his "clients" won't be so anxious to enter the country--and his profits go down.
Hi sheep!
Listen Muzzie, don't talk to me like that or I'll sue you for sexual harrassment.
Well, you'll have to admit you're something of a Islamofacist apologist, if someone takes the time to read your "in forum" posts, as I did. You've chosen sides, but maybe not the one best for our country.
That's one helluva hoax. Hmmm... Why would they use people of Chinese descent as a ruse when most of them come here for political asylum, not terrorist activity?
Doesn't compute. They can pick any nameless, faceless Middle Eastern types and they go with a Chinese red herring?
C'mon. That's not exactly bang for the buck.
Apparently there are a lot of Muslims in some parts of China. It's logical that some might be radicals. But whether or not this is true, I have no idea, and hope it's not.
Boston is so chock-packed with third world and anti-Bush fanatics that these guys could easily find safe haven upon arrival.
The mayor is a 'Dinkens' style, old-school liberal. He epitomizes Massachusetts hackdom.
If it's ONLY a 'dirty bomb'... Boston would be a a more 'acceptable'(for a lack of a better word) victim than most large cities. It's right on the eastern shore, it's low and the wind blows from the west.
The worst-case would be an actual nuclear weapon.
A good percentage of Western China is Muslim.......
I understand that - but the average American - the ones who would be the so-called target for a borders-enforcement-advocate hoax - they associate the Chinese with communism, not terrorism. Most people think they're isolationists.
It doesn't make sense to make a bunch of CHINESE people the face of border enforcement....
So be it.
Follow you around? My, aren't you full of yourself! Don't give yourself so much credit--I saw your posts on this thread, checked out your posting history, and made my comment. That's hardly following you around.
Maybe they are looking for Ketchup Boy and can't find his palatial townhouse.
When you murmer sweet sheep nothings at me, I worry about you following too close behind me.
Them muslims like buggery, too.
Bigot!
Or should I say buggerit?
I find it very amusing that mrsharia calls people bigots, yet one of his posts have him saying he is very ticked-off when people cannot see the difference between [legal] immigrants and Americans.
Isn't irony ironic?
(I just cancelled my press conference trip to meet with John Kerry and Ted Kennedy in Boston.)
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According to the source, the caller has not identified himself and did not show up for a meeting with federal investigators in California, but he did leave pictures and the names of two Chinese men and two Chinese women - reportedly chemists - at a ``drop'' site at the Mexico-California border.
The information also makes reference to something happening ``within four days,'' said another law enforcement source. Federal authorities in Boston identified the Chinese nationals being sought for questioning as Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen and Guozhi Lin.Sources said investigators have no information on the two Iraqis - including their gender.
...Isn't irony ironic?...
Sometimes its downright ferrous.
This may or may not be a serious situation, but I could not help cracking up when I read that line. The visual was just too much like a Leslie Neilson movie.
...the public had to wait a while for another batch of donuts to get done.
The caller, being a coyote, faces a 10-year federal prison term if he identifies himself and turns himself over to US law enforcement. Why would they possibly expect him to identify himself?
And his photo makes him look like a 13 yr old! I guess these folks are making Toddlers and Kids the next impending Terrorists. Next they will be looking for terrorists at the local elemntary schools.
BTTT
If found to be true and a serious event is foiled, the tip to law enforcement should qualify that guy for amnesty - by far preceeding all those "guest workers".
You assume that the Chinese are not already up to their ears in promoting terrorism via proxies. Not a safe assumption, IMO. I can see some very good reasons why China would support anti-US terror.
What if they were headed for the inauguration and the Boston story was just a red herring?
ping
Look for a lot of spur-of-the-moment vacation requests.
1. Turn their muzzie problem into our muzzie problem in the hope that we clean it up for them. (Except for mrsmith, the whole world has a muzzie problem.)
2. Hoping that our cleanup of the muzzie problem will weaken us enough to help them take us out when they're ready to make their move.
I forget the name of that book written by their young Colonels, It's not unconventional warfare but similar to that.
Before they started blowing things up, the vast majority of Muslims from the Middle East came here for political asylum.
It would be very unwise to assume that someone of Chinese decent would not commit an act of terrorism in the United States.
>>Why would they use people of Chinese descent<<
To the average American, Asians are much more non descriptive that the Muslims are.
Would you suspect a 13 year old of any nationality who was walking up the street with a school backpack on as being a terrorist?
Beslan.
Not in our country Thank GOD!
There are a lot of muslims in Mexico, too and a bunch of hispanic-American muslims. Do a google search to see how many mosques etc.
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