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Boston Investigation

 
 
Jack Fear
14:57 / 12.09.01
Local radio announcing 12 cops in riot gear entering the Westin hotel in Boston. 12:54 PM local time. Sorry, no link...
 
 
betty woo
15:03 / 12.09.01
CNN news is stating that they've taken several people into "custody" - no confirmation if they are suspects or just people with information that may be relevant...
 
 
bio k9
15:10 / 12.09.01
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY! ASSHOLE ONLOOKERS!
 
 
autopilot disengaged
15:11 / 12.09.01
quote:MIAMI (AP) - FBI (news - web sites) agents investigating the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington told a southwest Florida man that two men who stayed with him while getting flight training last year were involved in Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center, the man said.

prime suspect: mohamed atta?
 
 
Jack Fear
15:15 / 12.09.01
More...
 
 
Jack Fear
15:31 / 12.09.01
At least one arrest, at least one wounded at the Westin...
 
 
Jack Fear
15:41 / 12.09.01
Crowd being dispersed, hotel being evacuated while the bomb-sniffing dogs do their work: worry of a possible booby trap...
 
 
bio k9
15:53 / 12.09.01
This isn't on any of the channels anymore...
 
 
Jack Fear
16:01 / 12.09.01
Oh, shit--one of the dogs found something: the street's being closed down...

I'm getting my info from the Boston NPR affiliate, by the way: live streaming audio at http://live.wbur.org .
 
 
autopilot disengaged
16:03 / 12.09.01
stay with it, jack.
 
 
Frances Farmer
16:07 / 12.09.01
I can't get live radio... Any other way to get a feed on this?
 
 
Jack Fear
16:24 / 12.09.01
Fucked if I know. Windows Media Player or RealPlayer should let you play the 'BUR feed.

Bog-standard NPR feed at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/live.ram . RealAudio only, though.

[ 12-09-2001: Message edited by: Jack Fear ]
 
 
Ganesh
16:43 / 12.09.01
Any update on this?
 
 
Jack Fear
16:50 / 12.09.01
Nothing major--just bits & pieces of the puzzle. Unconfirmed reports say searches have been expanded to another hotel in the downtown Boston area, and a third hotel in a suburb called Chestnut Hill: the latter was a searcg of an unoccupied room.

Speculation that the suspects came in via Canada, drove across the border to Portland, Maine, and flew from Portland to Boston.

Another unconfirmed report (from WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island) that a train may have been delayed in Providence and is being searched for a suspect who may have been fleeing Boston.

Still no word on bombs in the Westin.
 
 
Jack Fear
16:53 / 12.09.01
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/957448/detail.html

"ABC News is reporting that three people, two women and one man, were taken into custody at a downtown Boston hotel during a major search and WPRI -TV in Providence, R.I. says that police there have stopped an Amtrak train at the Providence Place mall, reportedly searching for someone who fled the Boston hotel."
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
16:58 / 12.09.01
Channel 4 News/Gwyn Prins (my old head of dept.) pointed out that conclusions will be drawn from the possible presence of two muslems from Canada in the car found in Boston. Apparently Canada is thought to be home to Bin Laden's North American network, owing to a relaxed attitude to immigration.

I'm reporting, okay?
 
 
Jack Fear
17:20 / 12.09.01
From WBUR.com:

"The Boston Globe is reporting that the suspects [arrested at the Westin] were linked to a credit card used to buy tickets on flights involved in yesterday's terrorist attacks.

Meanwhile, heavily armed agents are searching the railroad station in Providence. An Amtrak train was stopped earlier today, and witnesses say six men were taken off in handcuffs."
http://www.wbur.org/news/local/plane.asp

'BUR's fucking servers keep kicking me off the feed!

Nick: yes, the Canada connection has been mentioned. The Canadian contingent of bin Laden's organization is comprised mainly of expatriate Algerians, apparently.
 
 
Jack Fear
17:23 / 12.09.01
Civilians have been allowed back into the Westin Hotel, and the streets have been re-opened. False alarm, apparently. Must've been a bag of dog biscuits or something.
 
 
Jack Fear
17:31 / 12.09.01
From Reuters: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbur/news/other/article/162507.html

"Authorities in Massachusetts have identified five Arab men as suspects in Tuesday's attack on New York City and have seized a rental car containing Arabic-language flight training manuals at Logan International Airport, a source told the Boston Herald newspaper.

"Two of the men were brothers whose passports were traced to the United Arab Emirates, the unidentified source told the Herald. One of the men was a trained pilot, the paper reported on its Web site on Wednesday.

"The paper said investigators suspect the two brothers were aboard hijacked United Airlines flight 175, which pilot union officials said was one of the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center."
 
  
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