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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Tip about "dirty bomb" in Boston likely a hoax
By DENISE LAVOIE
aturday, January 22, 2005
The Associated Press
BOSTON ù The tipster who told federal officials about a potential terrorist
plot involving Chinese and Iraqi immigrants may have fabricated the story
out of revenge, a federal law-enforcement official said yesterday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the tipster may
have been angry because some illegal immigrants had failed to pay him for
smuggling them into the country.
That explanation is one of many being examined in the case, said the official in Washington, who declined to describe other theories being explored.
FBI agents have been looking into an uncorroborated tip that 16 people might be planning an attack on Boston. They include 13 Chinese nationals, two Iraqis and a man identified on the FBI's Web site as Jose Ernesto Beltran Quinones, whose nationality was not given.
Security was beefed up in Boston, where two of the planes were hijacked
for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, by adding patrols at the airport, activating radiation detectors and posting pictures of four of the suspects in subways and underground garages.
Gov. Mitt Romney said yesterday that he has become "less concerned, not
more concerned" about the threat since it was first reported Wednesday.
The original tip was received by the California Highway Patrol, according
to another federal law-enforcement official in Washington who also spoke
on condition of anonymity. The tipster claimed that four of the Chinese
ù two men and two women ù entered the United States from Mexico and were
awaiting a shipment of "nuclear oxide" that would follow them to Boston.
Several radioactive compounds take form as oxides and could be used in a
"dirty bomb," said Charles Ferguson, a science-and-technology fellow at
the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. Plutonium and americium
oxides, in the right amounts, would be dangerous to human health, while
uranium oxide would be less so, Ferguson said.
"It's obviously a human-smuggling operation," said a Homeland Security source who declined to be identified. "They got flights out of China. They came to Mexico and then they were brought up [to the border] and apparently were smuggled over. Then somebody gave them up."An FBI official said none of the Chinese had been picked up. "It's possible nothing will come of this," he said.
The Homeland Security official said "there have been sightings everywhere"
of the Chinese, but all were false alarms.
Two federal sources said Quinones is the owner of the cellphone used to
call the California Highway Patrol.
The Homeland Security official said the tipster refused to meet with agents. "He won't meet, so we can't polygraph him or anything like that."
That official said the names of the Chinese immigrants were contained in
documents the tipster had hurled over a border fence.
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