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Friday, January 21, 2005


So maybe I was a bit hard on Tom Ridge...

The following is an actual press release from our nation's top law enforcement agency...annotated with my attempts to help those lacking the special training our agents have...

FBI Press Room - Press Release - January 20, 2005:

For Immediate Release January 20, 2005

Washington D.C. FBI National Press Office

Washington , D.C. - The FBI today is alerting the public to new persons of interest in the unspecified potential threat to the City of Boston , beyond the names and photographs of four Chinese nationals released in a January 19, 2005 , press release in Boston .

The names of these new persons, identified through our ongoing investigation, are:

1) Yu Xian Weng , female, possible date of birth (DOB) 4/5/64 and Chinese passport #P5997636 or DOB 10/4/63 and Chinese passport #G07457027
[This is the Chinese equivalent of Ann Smith]
2) Qinquan Lin , or Qiquan Lin, male, possible DOB 3/6/83 and Chinese passport #G04152197
[This is the Chinese equivalent of Jeff Jones]
3) Liqiang Liang, male, possible DOB 9/1/76 and Chinese passport #G07074257
[This is the Chinese equivalent of John Johnson]
4) Min Xiu Xie, male, possible DOB 11/21/77 and Chinese passport #G08386268
[This is the Chinese equivalent of Mike Smith]
5) Xiang Wei Liu, or Xing Wei Liu, male, possible DOB 5/30/82 and Chinese passport #G053490L8
[This is the Chinese equivalent of Jack Doherty]
6) Mei Xia Dong, male, possible DOB 10/25/83
[Aside from the xenophopic vulgar joke regarding penis length, this is the Chinese equivalent of Jimmy Johnson]
7) Xiuming Chen, male
[... Chinese equivalent of Tim Smith]
8) Cheng Yin Liu, male
[...Pat Doherty]
9) Zao Yun Wang, male
[...Tim Johnson]
10) Jose Ernesto Beltran Quinones, male

Photographs of these individuals are not available. None of the names has been validated as a “person of interest” on any previously existing “watch list”."
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