Update on boston terror threat
clawhammer
01-26-2005, 05:05 PM
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A "dirty bomb" alert in Boston last week was caused by a Mexican hoaxer trying to take revenge on Chinese immigrants who did not pay him for smuggling them across the U.S. border, Mexican prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The tip about a purported bomb plot involving Chinese nationals, which surfaced days before the Jan. 20 U.S. presidential inauguration, spurred a manhunt for 14 people and had police using radiation sensors in Boston's subway system.
Baja California state prosecutors said the tip was made by People trafficker Jose Ernesto Beltran, who called a law enforcement agency in California while high on drink and drugs to warn that a group of Chinese migrants planned to launch an attack.
"He was going to take the Chinese over (the U.S. border) but they didn't pay him," prosecutor's office spokesman, Moises Uribe, said by telephone from the city of Mexicali.
"He then took revenge by calling 911 in the United States and telling them that the group planned to carry out a terror attack on Boston," he added.
Beltran, who made the call anonymously, was picked up by federal police in Mexicali, south of the border from Calexico, California, earlier this week. He was later released.
U.S. media reports last week referred to a plot to explode a "dirty bomb," which disperses low-level radioactive material, in Boston.
The FBI said on Tuesday there was "no credibility" to the reported threat.
Each year, around 1 million illegal migrants are caught crossing Mexico's porous 2,000-mile border with the United States, seen as a potential soft spot in the U.S. war on terror.
In July, news reports said an al Qaeda suspect, Adnan El Shukrijumah, was planning to cross over into the United States from Mexico. Police and migration authorities found no evidence that he had entered Mexico.
The tip about a purported bomb plot involving Chinese nationals, which surfaced days before the Jan. 20 U.S. presidential inauguration, spurred a manhunt for 14 people and had police using radiation sensors in Boston's subway system.
Baja California state prosecutors said the tip was made by People trafficker Jose Ernesto Beltran, who called a law enforcement agency in California while high on drink and drugs to warn that a group of Chinese migrants planned to launch an attack.
"He was going to take the Chinese over (the U.S. border) but they didn't pay him," prosecutor's office spokesman, Moises Uribe, said by telephone from the city of Mexicali.
"He then took revenge by calling 911 in the United States and telling them that the group planned to carry out a terror attack on Boston," he added.
Beltran, who made the call anonymously, was picked up by federal police in Mexicali, south of the border from Calexico, California, earlier this week. He was later released.
U.S. media reports last week referred to a plot to explode a "dirty bomb," which disperses low-level radioactive material, in Boston.
The FBI said on Tuesday there was "no credibility" to the reported threat.
Each year, around 1 million illegal migrants are caught crossing Mexico's porous 2,000-mile border with the United States, seen as a potential soft spot in the U.S. war on terror.
In July, news reports said an al Qaeda suspect, Adnan El Shukrijumah, was planning to cross over into the United States from Mexico. Police and migration authorities found no evidence that he had entered Mexico.
Suislide
01-26-2005, 08:50 PM
you could've just added this to the existing thread on the same topic...
clawhammer
01-26-2005, 10:33 PM
you could've just added this to the existing thread on the same topic...
Yeah, but a thread that already has like 30 posts is not going to be check that much anymore, at least by the regulars.
Yeah, but a thread that already has like 30 posts is not going to be check that much anymore, at least by the regulars.
Damien
01-27-2005, 07:34 AM
He presents a valid point. Interesting but I'm glad the case was solved...
Tells ya though, don't piss off the mexicans
Tells ya though, don't piss off the mexicans
taranaki
01-27-2005, 12:02 PM
But y'all supposed to feel so much safer under Dubbya!
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