At 10:17pm EST a posting went up on the www.indymedia.org/ftaa breaking news page, reporting that the FBI were raiding the Seattle IMC. This posting disappeared half an hour later, perhaps due to a blackout on the raid imposed by the FBI. Similar reports have disappeared from other indymedia sites, and live news feeds have all but disappeared. I've witnessed news of the FBI raid being disappeared from seattle.indymedia.org, quebec.indymedia.org, vermont.indymedia.org, and www.indymedia.org. Try to get this message out by alternate means if you can.


The following report was posted on then removed from vermont.indymedia.org:

"There is a report of FBI Officers currently located within the Seattle IMC demanding the location of the person who's name is the registered name of indymedia.org. Apparently, they have an arrest warrant for Jonathan Jay because of a supposed threat against President Bush on the Montreal IMC site. They are making threats that the IMC is not supposed to send out *any* emails regarding this issue, according to the warrant. However, this, according to the
IMC lawyer, is Prior Restraint, which is unconstitutional. The closest story mentioning Bush on the Montreal site is the following: story mentioning bush Please look to seattle.indymedia.org as well as other sites for updates on this situation."

And this one was quickly disappeared from CMAQ just a few minutes after going up:

"SEATTLE INDYMEDIA CENTER SHUT DOWN BY FBI AT 3:25 UT

Frickin Chickin 2001-04-21

At 3:25 UT, FBI raided the Independent Media Center in downtown Seattle on 3rd St. between Pike and Pine. They had a warrant for the arrest of Johnathan Jay, the registered owner of the indymedia.org domain name. Until the time of the raid, www.indymedia.org/ftaa was uploading up the minute play by play news of the events at the FTAA Summit and protest in Quebec.
This site has now been shut down. FBI are searching Seattle for Johnathan Jay and are staked out outside his house right now at 4:23 UTC (9:24 Pacific Time). There is no live independent news coming from Quebec now."

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Seattle Indymedia (?) was served papers by the FBI last night and is under
a gag order not to discuss issues regarding the subpoena. who they want is the guy that registered the domain name. This has caused quite a lot of heartbreak in Seattle, fearing this fellow, Jonathan Jay, is in deep dookie...

they also removed the info they were carrying regarding the person who was hit with a plastic/rubber bullet and is critical condition (this and the subpoena has been confirmed to me by folks over Internet at IMC)apparently, someone threatened Bush on the IMC Montreal-which got the FBI
upset.

also, rumours spread late last night that someone had died and the folks in Quebec went crazy, she is now confirmed alive but critical with a neck injury from a 'plastic' bullet!!

Since this has already been removed from numerous imc sites, I felt it would not be good idea to "publish" on the site, but wanted to get the info out.

See also:-
 http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=100004