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Threats in Boston
As the investigation spread across the world last week, gumshoes swept up pieces of chilling evidence. In Boston, there were threats of an attack last Saturday. An Arab in a bar was overheard to say that blood would flow in Boston on September 22, and U.S. intelligence intercepted a conversation between Algerian diplomats talking about "the upcoming Boston tea party on September 22." It turned out that some ladies really were holding a tea party on that day. Some federal officials were spooked when manuals describing crop duster equipment -- to spray deadly germs? -- were found among the possessions of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested in mid-August in Minnesota on charges that his visa expired. He was later found to be an associate of Osama bin Laden. But a top FBI official told Newsweek, "I'm not getting into the bunker and putting on a gas mask. We're used to seeing these threats." (Nonetheless, crop dusters were barred from flying near cities.) Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2001-09-23 |
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