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Article: Santa Barbara News-Press Being Victimized by Criminal Solicitation Alert.
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- Business Wire
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- September 23, 2006
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- The Santa Barbara News-Press issued the following statement today in response to anonymous threats made against the paper:
A disturbing anonymous Internet posting related to the current labor dispute between the Santa Barbara News-Press and the Teamsters union was sent to the company calling for certain illegal actions to be taken against the paper. Several of the actions are serious crimes and the posting itself is a thinly veiled solicitation for criminal acts, which is also a crime.
Among the threats is a call to break into the newspaper's computer system to disrupt and damage normal business activities and for people to ...