{"id":24,"date":"2005-01-19T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T22:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/01\/19\/boston-under-terror-alert\/"},"modified":"2005-01-19T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T22:22:07","slug":"boston-under-terror-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/19\/boston-under-terror-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Under Terror Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4487'><\/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\/meninoo.gif\" width=\"144\" height=\"215\" align=\"left\"><em>Mayor<br \/>\n          Mumbles of Boston just gave a most disconcerting press conference in<br \/>\n          which he basically confirmed that the FBI had informed him of a specific<br \/>\n        threat against the city of Boston.&nbsp;He did not offer ANY details<br \/>\n        of what the warning consisted of, just denied rumors of a dirty bomb<br \/>\n        or an LNG tanker attack. The Govenor is on his way back from Washington,<br \/>\n        going to skip the Inauguration. Everybody is supposed to watch out for<br \/>\n        4 Chinese individuals &#8211; great news for our<br \/>\n        Oriental<br \/>\n        students,<br \/>\n        arriving<br \/>\n        this week<br \/>\n        for the new semester.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then this came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/wbz1030.com\/topstories\/topstoriesbos_story_019170816.html\/resources_storyPrintableView\">AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\n        <font color=\"#000000\" size=\"+1\"><strong>Boston Agencies Alerted of Possible Terror Threat<\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n        Jan 19, 2005 5:05 pm US\/Eastern<\/p>\n<p>BOSTON (AP) &#8212; The FBI has notified law enforcement agencies in Boston to be<br \/>\non the lookout for four people described as possible terror suspects who may<br \/>\nbe headed to the Boston area. <\/p>\n<p>A federal law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity tells The<br \/>\nAssociated Press that the FBI&#8217;s joint terrorism task force has not yet corroborated<br \/>\na tip that terror suspects may have entered the U-S through Mexico in recent<br \/>\ndays. <\/p>\n<p>The official says the tip came from an unidentified individual and is similar<br \/>\nto dozens received by law enforcement agencies each week. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Governor Romney says the governor will speak with reporters this<br \/>\nafternoon in Washington DC and then return to Boston. Romney was in Washington<br \/>\nto attend President Bush&#8217;s inauguration. <\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/wbz1030.com\/topstories\/topstoriesbos_story_019170816.html\/resources_storyPrintableView\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Mumbles of Boston just gave a most disconcerting press conference in which he basically confirmed that the FBI had informed him of a specific threat against the city of Boston.&nbsp;He did not offer ANY details of what the warning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/19\/boston-under-terror-alert\/\">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":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}