Saturday, January 22, 2005

Boston terror alert was probably on a vendetta

Okay, I didn't tell you about this one, but it looks like it was a hoax anyway.
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 Friday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the tipster may have been angry because a group of illegal immigrants had failed to pay for smuggling them into the country.
  Yahoo News article

And this kind of thing is going to get to be more and more problematic as the U.S. becomes a police state in earnest, with vague and unconstitutional anti-terror laws.

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