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BREAKING NEWS: The state Emergency Management Agency has partially activated its emergency response team this afternoon after the FBI triggered a massive manhunt today for six people who may pose a terrorist threat to the city of Boston. Public safety officials are now holed up in the emergency bunker in Framingham until the threat has passed.
Heard that tidbit on my way home from school... and now saw it on www.boston.com. It specifically said on the radio that there is reliable information that there may be terrorists with intents to detonate a dirty bomb in Boston. Hopefully they'll do their jobs and nothing will happen; either that, or the information is false. I do know that the commute's gonna be a bit difficult for anyone trying to get home tonight... and that they're searching for this possible threat. That's all I know at the moment.
Edit: After I posted, an article went up after the brief statement:
Search underway for six who may pose terrorist threat to Boston
By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | January 19, 2005
The FBI has triggered a massive manhunt for six people -- four Chinese and two Iraqis -- who may pose a terrorist threat to the city of Boston, law enforcement officials briefed on the threat said today.
The six are suspected of having come into the United States from Mexico, and may have headed to New York and then to Boston, the target of a planned attack that could involve a lethal substance, possibly chemical or biological or explosive, three law enforcement officials briefed on the threat said.
The tip about the threat was given to the FBI by only one person, the officials said, and it had not been corroborated as of this afternoon.
"It's being worked aggressively and shared with our law enforcement partners,'' FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkewicz said.
The state Emergency Management Agency has partially activated its emergency response team, with representatives from the Department of Public Health, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the State Police now holed up in the emergency bunker in Framingham until the threat has passed.
Heard that tidbit on my way home from school... and now saw it on www.boston.com. It specifically said on the radio that there is reliable information that there may be terrorists with intents to detonate a dirty bomb in Boston. Hopefully they'll do their jobs and nothing will happen; either that, or the information is false. I do know that the commute's gonna be a bit difficult for anyone trying to get home tonight... and that they're searching for this possible threat. That's all I know at the moment.
Edit: After I posted, an article went up after the brief statement:
Search underway for six who may pose terrorist threat to Boston
By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | January 19, 2005
The FBI has triggered a massive manhunt for six people -- four Chinese and two Iraqis -- who may pose a terrorist threat to the city of Boston, law enforcement officials briefed on the threat said today.
The six are suspected of having come into the United States from Mexico, and may have headed to New York and then to Boston, the target of a planned attack that could involve a lethal substance, possibly chemical or biological or explosive, three law enforcement officials briefed on the threat said.
The tip about the threat was given to the FBI by only one person, the officials said, and it had not been corroborated as of this afternoon.
"It's being worked aggressively and shared with our law enforcement partners,'' FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkewicz said.
The state Emergency Management Agency has partially activated its emergency response team, with representatives from the Department of Public Health, the Department of Environmental Protection, and the State Police now holed up in the emergency bunker in Framingham until the threat has passed.
