Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Possible Dirty Bomb In Boston?
Gee, this sounds like an especially interesting weekend to go to Boston.
Update:
The link went dead as soon as I posted it! At least from here it did. Stay tuned…
Update 2:
See here instead, I guess.
Update 3:
Alrighty then; the original link now works again. Still nothing on Fox or MSNBC’s sites. We first heard their was something up because the TV was on while Sadie was eating, and they broke in with a fairly ambiguous emergency breaking news announcement kind of thing.
Update 4:
TV says the FBI is calling it “uncorroborated.” As Deb says, it’s probably a whole lot of hooey, but who knows (besides The Shadow). Is that how you spell hooey? Anyway, guess we’ll see what happens.
Update 5:
Mayor Mumbles was just on TV for a news conference about this. You could make out most of the words he said without mistaking them for other words, if you listened carefully. If you got past the distraction of listening to his caricature of an accent, which was hard because you were trying to focus on catching the words represented by the mumbles, you basically got the info that they are on it, that there is less to it that some of what’s been speculated, and that it’s uncorroborated. If you read between the lines, (as I was typing, another breaking news report came on and didn’t say anything new) you know this flurry of publicity is directed at the suspected terrorists to let them know they should just drop it because the authorities are on them like white on instant rice.
The later breaking news I mentioned emphasized that we should all go about our business, these are not the droids we’re looking for, and that the terror alert level has not been raised. It’s simply an allegation of Chinese nationals (a word which Menino pronounced “nationalists") having been snuck over the Mexican border and a group of these dudes allegedly headed to Boston or New York to gain more disrespect for their cause. Or something.
Changing the time stamp to match the time of the latest update.
Update 6:
I’d wondered when other bloggers would mention this. Not that I went looking that intensively. Turns out Jeff Quinton has posted and includes a roundup of others who have mentioned it. Including one I checked earlier who must have posted since.
It’s a good resource to see what others are saying, and I am about to go offline for a couple hours and may not then have the latest developments.
Update 7:
Including this post in today’s Beltway Traffic Jam.
