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| FBI denies al-Qaeda cell slipped into Boston |
| 2004-03-26 |
| The FBI has denied allegations by former White House adviser Richard Clarke that al-Qaida was placing operatives in Boston via tankers from Algeria. Clarke, in his book "Against All Enemies," wrote that the FBI learned in December 1999 that terror suspects entered the United States on tankers carrying liquefied natural gas to Boston Harbor. He charged local officials should have been informed of the threat. "We didn’t brief the mayor (of Boston) that there was an al-Qaida cell here because there wasn’t one," FBI Special Agent Kenneth Kaiser told the Boston Globe. Kaiser said the possible threat from LNG tankers was investigated and no link with suspected terrorists entering the country by that method was found. He said the task force that looked into the possibility included local and state police, the Globe reported Friday. The FBI agent told the newspaper that Clarke’s allegations were based on "incomplete information" because the White House adviser had been told of the investigation before it was complete. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 The terrorists slipped into Boston were not surprising news for people who lived in Boston before 1999. I give you one example. I never thought foreigners could enter Boston without proper entry papers. I mentioned the same during a lunch time in the Galleria near the Harvard Medical School. Just in a day or two, a tall main land Chinese told me in front of others that he had been coming to Boston via Canada as often as he desired without any visa or paper work. It was not surprising that he could slip into Boston except that he was bragging about it in a public place with no fear at all. Boston at those times had open doors as wide as you could imagine. I also have one for the law enforcement agency of Boston. I was made to pay 90 dollars for towing and more to junk my old car that was stolen and left on street within a day after I complained to the Boston drug enforcement agency that I suspected drug dealers were using a dumpster near my parking lot as a transfer site. I guess, it could be a rare coincident of stealing almost a junk car or the drug dealers had informants in the law enforcement agency and I was punished. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-03-26 9:19:53 PM |
| #1 What? Clarke doesn't know what he's talking about? Nope. Not a twitch on the surprise meter. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-03-26 12:43:56 PM |