SiliconValley.com – Special Reports: a weblog with extensive coverage of multiple aspects of the situation. Blinked there is this disturbing observation by an unnamed former Boston FBI agent that my city is “a facilitator for terrorist activity. There have been cells here of bin Laden’s associates. They’re entrenched here. They’re able to use this area because of the proximity to New York and to fold into the local population, and they’re able to facilitate terrorist attacks.” Boston Globe So it may not have been just lax security at Logan airport. I wonder even more urgently what the civil liberties implications for Boston in particular are, and whether this city (which has its own brand of perennial racial intolerance) will be a particular setting for the outpouring of anti-Arab sentiment. [Disclaimer: just because I’m starting to post links to help us to be more conversant with bin Laden, don’t count me (yet) as among those who are rushing to judgment that this is attributable to him. While I’m hearing wire reports that U.S. listening posts have intercepted communications from his forces saying they’ve hit their targets, the verdict isn’t yet in…]