ANOTHER "TERRORIST" PLOT FOILED BY USG

No sooner did we realize how NOT a threat those loony birds from Florida were to the Sears Tower do we get reports last week of a bunch more terrorists-to-be have been arrested and their plot to hit targets on American soil has been foiled.

The thing is, those guys from Florida were never going to be a threat in the first place. According to [http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/432918p-364663c.html|a July 6, 2006 post] at NYDailyNews.Com:

An FBI informant urged seven terror suspects to target FBI offices throughout the country - including one in New York - and even helped the men scout the buildings, law enforcement sources told the Daily News yesterday.

The suspects, who also allegedly schemed to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, were denied bond in a Miami federal court yesterday as sources shed light on the FBI effort to ensnare them.

Last December, the FBI arranged for an undercover informant posing as an Al Qaeda terrorist to meet with alleged ringleader Narseal Batiste, who authorities say had already recruited six men to help bring down the landmark 110-story Chicago office tower.

But in March, in an effort to solidify his "terrorist credentials," the informant suggested the men widen their aims to attack FBI offices in Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington and New York, a law enforcement source said.

This makes the situation more of an entrapment situation. In other words, they weren't even going to hit all those other targets without prompting from the FBI guy. Now, my next question is how much they were prompted about all the stuff they wanted to do.

Now, flash forward a week or so and you get a new story about terrorists miles from their goals but, it is suggested, they are much more serious than those freaks from Florida. In fact, let's not even talk about those guys at all because we've got a NEW THREAT, which is MUCH SHINIER than the old threat!

WEEEE!

SO, what's the deal with these new guys? Well, they weren't Americans at all, nor were they in America. How do we know they wanted to kill us? Well, they talked about it in an Internet chatroom, of course!

And as we all know, if it's on the Internet, IT MUST BE TRUE!!

Their plan, oddly reminiscent of the bad David Hasselhoff "film" [http://imdb.com/title/tt0116451/|Gridlock] from 1996, was to destroy tunnels leading to Manhattan. Their goal was to cause flooding of Wallstreet and general chaosity.

Sounds like a reasonable enough plan, but check out this clip from [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13749418/|a July 7, 2006 article] at MSNBC.com to find out just how close they were to actually pulling this plan off:

Investigators decided in recent weeks that the “plotting for this attack had matured to a point where it appeared that the individuals were about to move forward,” Mershon said. “They were about to go to a phase where they would attempt to surveil targets, establish a regimen of attack and acquire the resources necessary to effectuate the attacks.”

In other words, they weren't close at all.

In fact, by the sound of it, these guys haven't committed any crime at all. It seems like the only real reason they're saying these guys were for real was because one said he was acting on a "religious order" from bin Laden.

Well, THAT'S ENOUGH FOR ME! TAKE HIM AWAY!!

Or not...

Just seems like more trumped up reasons to be scared instead of smart (and therefore aware of how Bush and Co. are trying to distract us from all the laws he's breaking).