The story gets weirder and weirder. Now, the FBI has added the names of 10 Chinese to the list of those being sought for questioning about a possible terror plot targeting Boston.

MartiniPundit took note of some oddities regarding the Chinese suspects here. Meanwhile, an anonymous law enforcement source told AP:

[T]he tip was received Wednesday by the California Highway Patrol. The tipster claimed the four Chinese — two men and two women — entered the United States from Mexico and were awaiting a shipment of “nuclear oxide” that would follow them to Boston.

The official said the nuclear oxide could be a reference to material used to make a “dirty bomb” that would spew radiation over a wide area.

U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan of Boston said Thursday that authorities had learned more background about the four, but “it makes us no more alarmed this morning, this afternoon, than we were yesterday.”

“They’re not wanted at this point in time for any crimes because there’s no evidence at this point in time that they’ve committed any crimes,” Sullivan said. “We’re not certain exactly where they are. We can’t even say for certain that they’re in the country.”

Crikey.

Update: Here’s an important point that several homeland security folks have reminded me about apropos of this story. The problem of illegal aliens from China running around loose in the U.S. is a problem that is perpetuated by our own government. Do you remember those 32 Chinese stowaways discovered in Los Angeles last week? Here’s some info I received from a DHS source in L.A.:

We apprehended them, processed them to see, what else, the asylum officers. Now, what a lot of people don’t know is that these 32 will probably be out on the streets in about 2 weeks having been paroled and bonded out because there is no where to keep them. Do you think they will return for hearings?

They don’t call it catch-and-release for nothing.