Miami Arrests-Less About Domestic Plots Than New Attempts to Police Them

[kpete]

Is This How to Fight the War on Homegrown Terror?
The arrest of some unusual suspects in Miami says less about domestic plots than a new attempt to police them
By JOSH TYRANGIEL

Posted Sunday, Jun 25, 2006

Were the consequences of underestimating terrorists neither so grave nor so fresh, it would be tempting to look at the seven men indicted on conspiracy charges for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower and laugh. Not so much at the suspects—five American citizens, a legal immigrant from Haiti and an illegal Haitian national, all of whose hardscrabble bios make them seem more sad than sinister—but at those who considered them a real threat to wage, as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales put it, "a full ground war against the United States." FBI deputy director John Pistole conceded that the men, part of a Miami group called Seas of David, were "more aspirational than operational," and its aspirations reeked of ineptitude. When alleged ringleader Narseal Batiste, 32, presented an FBI informant he thought was an al-Qaeda operative with a list of materials necessary for jihad, it did not include explosives. Instead Batiste asked for $50,000, radios, uniforms and steel-toed boots. Was the plan to blow the Sears Tower up or kick it down?

more at:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207759,00.html

[speedoo]

1. What's this? MSM showing a bit of spine?

How dare Time question noneck Alberto!!

[mavoix]

2. Is This How to Fight the War on Homegrown Terror?

Here's the latest on the 'homegrown terrorists':

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062506Z.shtml

[WiseButAngrySara]

3. I just got back from running an errand, and Monica Crower for B* was

on; prior to turning off the radio, I heard her repeat several times (let's properly implant the fear here folks) that one of the 'terrorists' was an 'illegal alien.' I'm expecting this meme to become a major RW talking point. From what I've read and heard so far (and that hasn't been much) I think that these poor souls were set-up, and most of them innocent and duped! Just more fear and war propaganda, IMHO. Like KO said, it's all about 'coincidences' that aren't really coincidences. This latest 'break-through' by the FBI timed just as new revelations about B*Co spying on bank accounts became available. Not much of a murmer at all by the M$M! I guess it's allright with them to have their privacy rights stripped to the core?

K(pete)NR!

[lyonn]

4. What a rag tag bunch of terrorist,

who probably don't have the bus fare to Chicago. A handful of wannabees and not sure what they wannabe, but, some clever person gives them a mission and tells them the supplies they will need to blow up skyscrapers, which included $50,000. to get them started on a mission, no doubt caught there eye big time. The prisons are probably full of people that threaten our govt. while out in the prison yard. Pissed for having to do 30 years for several pounds of MJ and a 20.00 pistol in their home.

Did they check their freezer for some cash? They might try looking for some home grown govt. haters in Idaho maybe? Some very individualistic type people up there, might try checking their accts., well, mattresses (sneak and peak) and e-mails.