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On the off chance that you may find yourself interested in reading about something besides the latest babystep in the mushrooming labor dispute over at 400 N. Broad, City Paper mobwatcher Brendan McGarvey is reporting that Philadelphia is on a terrorist hit list. So, if you want to live, it might be wise to stay out of town from Halloween to Christmas, according to the warnings about which, rather than holding off till next week's mega CP Choice issue, McG's writing about here:
Philadelphia is on a terrorist hit list according to an FBI bulletin sent this week to all Bureau field offices as well as to an alphabet soup of federal agencies including the CIA, ATF,NSA, DEA,TSA,the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, the White House National Security Council and a dozen other federal agencies involved in law enforcement, intelligence gathering and anti terrorism efforts.
Underworld has obtained a copy of the memo which claims that, “repeated statements by a suspected drug trafficker/con artist to avoid major US cities, including Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC, between 31 October 2006 and 25 December 2006”. The drug trafficker is identified in the bulletin as Seyed Ahmad Ziabari, aka Alex Ziabari. Ziabari is one of two sources cited in the warning but the second source is not identified. In the memo the FBI alleges that “the proceeds from Ziabari’s drug operation are suspected to be going to Iran in support of terrorism.”
Ziabari is also quoted as warning four people on four separate occasions to “stay out of all big cities’ between 31 October 2006 and 25 December 2006 and indicated that unspecified weapons have already been brought into the U.S. through Mexico.” The FBI bulletin states that last month “Ziabari stated that ‘eight of them’ came over from Mexico. Ziabari said his Iranian friends were entering the U.S. through Canada and Cuba, and told the individual not to ‘go around’ big cities ‘around Christmas or Halloween’, and to be very careful....Zaibari also said to stay out of Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C.”
UPDATE: WE'LL BE POSTING THE BULLETIN ITSELF WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS.
UPDATED! DOWNLOAD FULL MEMO HERE
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