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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 10:44 AM
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So who started the Boston Terror Scare last week?
I am getting tired of one bogus scare after another. Of course, the DOJ will never try to track down who is behind these scares, it seems it wouldn't be in their best interest. In the meantime, millions of dollars are wasted, average citizens are terrorized, and local economies are disrupted. It is time that we expose these fraudsters so even if the government won't do anything about them, the rest of the world can see who is really behind this terrorism stuff.


Here is the first report that I can find about this supposed "FBI Alert". Notice that it is published on a site that looks like it an official government site, but is actually privately owned.


http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/wp-trackback.php/484

1/19/2005
FBI Alerts Boston of Four Terror Suspects
Filed under: * All News Briefs — admin @ 3:14 pm

The FBI notified area law enforcement Wednesday to be on the lookout for four possible terror suspects who may be headed to Boston.

A federal law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the matter remains under investigation, told The Associated Press that the FBI’s joint terrorism task force has not yet corroborated a tip that the suspects entered the United States through Mexico in recent days, possibly bound for Boston.

Wired News
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Despite the fact that this looks like an official government website, it is not.

Here is the registration info for the owner:

Domain: nationalterroralert.com

Registrant
SecureWhois, Inc.
[email protected]
904 S. Roselle Road #136
Schaumburg, IL 60193 US
+1.6306727455
+1.6306727455 (FAX)


Domain Name: NATIONALTERRORALERT.COM
Registrar: INNERWISE, INC. D/B/A ITSYOURDOMAIN.COM
Whois Server: whois.itsyourdomain.com
Referral URL: http://www.itsyourdomain.com
Name Server: NS1.HOSTLANE.NET
Name Server: NS2.HOSTLANE.NET
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 09-jan-2005
Creation Date: 08-feb-2003
Expiration Date: 08-feb-2006

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The first posting that I have found so far for this story is on a pro-Bush site called Liberty Post. Denise LaVoie is credited with writing the story.

Notice the date of this post 01/19/05, one day before the story broke in the MSM.



http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=8...

Title: FBI Alerts Boston of Four (Communist Chinese) Terror Suspects (Names Given In Article)
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news ? tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050120/ap_on_re_us/terror_suspects
Published: Jan 19, 2005
Author: DENISE LAVOIE
Post Date: 2005-01-19 20:44:37 by OKCSubmariner
Ping List: *TerrorismCoverup*
15 Comments

FBI Alerts Boston of Four Terror Suspects

"In a joint statement issued by Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan and Kenneth Kaiser, an agent in charge of the Boston FBI office, the suspects were identified as: Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen, Guozhi Lin."

Photos of the four Chinese Radiation bomb suspects in Boston can be seen at img.photobucket.com/albums/v344/bb5usa/Jan2005/011905-03.jpg

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=81863

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From here the story pops up on Pat Roberston's Christian Broadcast Network.


http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/Wire/050120c.asp

FBI Alerts Boston of Four Terror Suspects

By Dennis Lavoie
Associated Press Writer
January 20, 2005

CBN.com – BOSTON (AP) -- Authorities have launched a manhunt across the Northeast for four Chinese nationals described by the FBI as potential terror suspects who may be heading for Boston.

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So who are Innerwise, Inc. and nationalterroralert.com? How did they get this 'FBI alert' on 01/19/04.

Who is David Lavoie? Supposedly he's an AP reported but I've googled his name and there is no record of him publishing anything else? Isn't it odd for someone to break such a big story, whose never reported anything before?


So where did this story come from? Someone is behind this latest 'scare' which is turning out to be bogus, again? People who put out and promote bogus terror alerts should be held responsible for this too is terrorism.






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tyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 10:57 AM
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1. why?
My guess is that they wanted to prevent possible criticism of the overwhelming security supplied for the inauguration.
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signmike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 11:00 AM
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2. Dennis, Denise, David -- all in a name -- nt
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chiburb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 11:05 AM
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3. Did you see the "linked sites" at NationalTerrorAlert?
Edited on Sun Jan-23-05 11:07 AM by chiburb
Linked Sites:
Jihad Watch
Michelle Malkin
by BlogRolling

Also, a reverse search of their phone# yields nothing...

On edit: DENISE shows many hits on Google: a legal and court reporter for the AP.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 11:22 AM
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4. Thanks, I must have googled a misspell name?
You are right, Denise Lavoie does come up.

I did notice the links for the FBI Alert site. They definitely lean toward the more radical wacko side of the right wing in this country. Jihad Watch was one of the main sources of noise for last year's terror alerts. Looks like they've cleaned up their act a bit since then.


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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 11:24 AM
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5. That is an extremely strange site
The "National Terror Alert Resource Center" is referenced all over the internet, but it's very poorly written -- commas are misplaced and the language is awkward -- and it has those two strange links: one is Michelle Malkin?? PLUS it uses as its symbol that w-shaped half-flag B* used on his campaign signs. It appears to have no connection the the Department of Homeland Paranoia, er I mean Security, at all.

What does it all mean???
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 11:31 AM
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6. That they are one of the sources of a lot of the noise
that Tom Ridge loves to reference when he needs a new terror alert to cover for his boss again.

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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 11:39 AM
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7. Gross culpability lurks behind false terrorist reports.
I am appreciative of your efforts to track down the source of that report. Whomever is the source may be either complicit or a co-conspirator of a very serious federal crime!!! :mad:
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 11:41 AM
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8. booga-booga
Edited on Sun Jan-23-05 11:43 AM by radfringe
bush*'s numbers are the lowest for a re-selected pResident going into a second term

he got a slight bump after the Tsunami, but it dropped off again. Iraq is a mess, economy is not doing well, don't think even bushies can cause a humongus natural disaster -- so the only thing left is to scare the people with a booga-booga-booga terra-lert


http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
CBS News/New York Times Poll. Jan. 14-18, 2005. N=1,118 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

"Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?"
1/14-18/05
Approve 49%
Disapprove 46%
Unsure 5%

CBS News/New York Times Poll. Jan. 14-18, 2005. N=1,118 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3. RV=registered voters
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushFav.htm
"Is your opinion of George W. Bush favorable, not favorable, undecided, or haven't you heard enough about George W. Bush yet to have an opinion?"
1/14-18/05
Favorable 44%
Not 40%
Favorable 14%
Undecided 2%

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when I hear about a terra-lert - first thing I check are the polls -- what's bush*'s numbers? up? down? no change? if no change or down then I take the terra-lert with a few pounds of salt
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 11:55 AM
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9. Polls or damaging events seem to have a high statistical relationship
to terra-lerts. That is, events damaging to the neoCONimperialists.
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 12:32 PM
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10. Good research job, thanks
The reasons for hoax are obvious, but the creating of them by allies of Orwell is criminal. With criminals running the show, expect this to continue.

When the want to terrorize us again, it will be at a time and place of their choosing.
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mountainvue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 12:35 PM
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11. Hillary Clinton just happened to be speaking in Boston
that day.
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