{"id":1887,"date":"2003-12-30T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2003-12-30T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/30\/detained-suspect-claims-to-be-ben-fran"},"modified":"2003-12-30T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2003-12-30T12:39:22","slug":"detained-suspect-claims-to-be-ben-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/30\/detained-suspect-claims-to-be-ben-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Detained Suspect Claims to Be Ben Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2155'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/farmalm.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"167\" align=\"left\">December 30, 2003 &#8211; Washington &#8212; The FBI is warning police nationwide<br \/>\n        to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular<br \/>\n        annual reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather<br \/>\n        trends could be used for terrorist planning.<\/p>\n<p>      In a bulletin sent  to about 18,000 police organizations,<br \/>\n      the FBI said terrorists may use almanacs &quot;to assist with target selection<br \/>\n      and pre-operational planning.&quot; It urged officers to watch during searches,<br \/>\n      traffic stops and other investigations for anyone carrying almanacs, especially<br \/>\n      if the books are annotated in suspicious ways.<\/p>\n<p>from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A40727-2003Dec30.html\"> the Associated press<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 30, 2003 &#8211; Washington &#8212; The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular annual reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/30\/detained-suspect-claims-to-be-ben-franklin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}