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| The Investigation |
| Threats in Boston |
| 2001-09-23 |
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 |