US guardsman 'in al-Qaeda plot': BBC

[Bhaisahab]

An American soldier has been detained on suspicion of trying to sell information about military weapons to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.

The suspect, identified as Ryan Anderson, a National Guardsman based at Fort Lewis in Washington state, was held after a surveillance operation.

His unit is preparing to be deployed in Iraq as part of a rotation of forces.

It is thought he did not pass on any information, but may have tried to contact al-Qaeda through the internet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/3484377.stm

[PartyPooper]

1. This guy will get at least as much as John Walker Lindh.

20 years...if he's lucky.

[Old and In the Way]

2. This stinks.

An Al-Qaeda chat room? If they are known chatrooms, why would they be open? Sounds like another distraction.

[MattNC]

3. monitor them

why shut it down when they could just create a new one.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Sound like a simple case of entrapment

However in this new witch hunt world anyone is fair game.

[ROC]

5. Simple

Send the gguy back to his unit

[daleo]

6. This kind of phrase usually means there's not much to it.

"Our correspondent says details of this case remain murky and precisely why Mr Anderson might initially have come under suspicion is not immediately clear."

Withhold judgment for a while.