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Suspicious Package On Ferry, Yet Seattle PI Still Won't Run Photos of Wanted Men
NewsBusters.org ^ | 8/22/2007 | Bill Hobbs

Posted on 08/22/2007 10:48:05 AM PDT by Pyro7480

The Seattle Post Intelligencer is carrying an AP report of a suspicious package found on ferry, but still hasn't published the photos of two men the FBI is seeking in order to question them about their suspicious surveillance-type activity aboard several Seattle-area ferries in recent weeks. The AP report in the P-I says the details of the contents of the suspicious package "were not immediately available, but the Seattle Times' report, by a Seattle Times staffer, says Trooper Cliff Pratt of the Washington State Patrol's bomb squad, described the package, found rolled in carpet in a ferry bathroom earlier Wednesday morning, as possible remnants of a bomb that had not functioned correctly.

Meanwhile, ABC News is now running a story on the search for the mystery men, noting that, "In April 2006, the Washington State Ferries system was ranked among the nation's most sought-after targets for maritime terrorism by a Justice Department inspector general."

Past Newsbusters coverage of the Post-Intelligencer's refusal to run the photos:

Seattle PI Continues to Refuse to Aid FBI in Terror Probe

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Offers Haiku Contest - But No Help - in FBI Terror Probe


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: bolo; fbi; ferry; seattle; suspects; washington; washingtonstate
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Whoever is not with us is against us....
1 posted on 08/22/2007 10:48:10 AM PDT by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480

That’s the problem. Approximately half of the country is against us (and, if they just thought about it for a minute or two, themselves, since they are part of “us”).


2 posted on 08/22/2007 10:49:53 AM PDT by MizSterious (Deport all the illegals to sanctuary cities.)
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To: Pyro7480
What happened to kinder times when suspicious packages just meant...


3 posted on 08/22/2007 10:50:23 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Pyro7480

www.jihadwatch.org has a photo of the two people discussed above.


4 posted on 08/22/2007 10:50:42 AM PDT by u4ia12000
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To: pissant

PING!!


5 posted on 08/22/2007 10:50:57 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: Pyro7480

PI giving them an obligatory head start?


6 posted on 08/22/2007 10:51:34 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: Pyro7480

"No photos!"

7 posted on 08/22/2007 10:55:10 AM PDT by UnklGene
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To: Pyro7480

And if these men orchestrate an attack, how much do you want to bet this newspaper will be out in front blaming President Bush for not stopping it? Idiots.

If these men are innocent, why haven’t they made themselves accessible to clear things up? Who are they, where are they?


8 posted on 08/22/2007 10:55:15 AM PDT by KJC1
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To: Pyro7480

One easy way to get the photos published - accuse the photo subjects of “Homophobic Hate Speech”.


9 posted on 08/22/2007 10:57:01 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Pyro7480

I think I just saw a photo of the men on foxnews.com


10 posted on 08/22/2007 10:57:09 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: A CA Guy

Al’s stuffed with Sandy Berger’s papers.


11 posted on 08/22/2007 10:59:45 AM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: Pyro7480
The Amish again?


12 posted on 08/22/2007 11:02:26 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: u4ia12000
Here's my good public service deed for the day, obtained from the jihadwatch.org site:

Yep, they look Amish to me...

13 posted on 08/22/2007 11:11:35 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: Pyro7480

Our media is always a day late when attempting to keep up. If our media would come to Free Republic more, our media would be better informed and could be on the cutting edge. It is the old media own fault. Trust them at your own risk.


14 posted on 08/22/2007 11:13:24 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

It wasn’t me, I swear!


15 posted on 08/22/2007 11:15:25 AM PDT by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: pissant
ah, howdy....
You aren't old media, you are one of many on the cutting edge, pissant. I cannot help but LOL.
16 posted on 08/22/2007 11:16:47 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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To: pissant
Just checking....
17 posted on 08/22/2007 11:18:41 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.)
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To: Pyro7480

I would have expected no less from the Seattle PI. Those socialists don’t like cooperating with their enemies.


18 posted on 08/22/2007 11:20:02 AM PDT by caisson71
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To: Pyro7480

We had an incident in Raleigh yesterday.
A man followed two different women in two different locations.
NEWS rooms wanted us to BOLO the man.
Of course, NO description was given. Zero
Are they that stupid?
PC run amuck.


19 posted on 08/22/2007 11:29:25 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Vinnie
Most in a newsroom run copy and read from print. Most have no idea what is news worthy, nor do they care about saving people's lives, in most cases. Although every newsroom will swear different.

Are they that stupid?

in one word....Yes.

20 posted on 08/22/2007 11:39:15 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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