Sounds like we got lucky on this one.
The big headline is that they foiled a terrorist plot by six Islamic militants to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey.
The details are still unfolding, but it appears that these guys weren't in any hurry. The feds have been investigating this for fifteen months, apparently. They also say that they don't know if it's linked to al-Qaeda, although the guys were watching bin Laden videos in their free time. I suppose the government is paranoid about linking anything without undeniable evidence these days...
It also appears that the first tip came from a store clerk when a customer asked to have a DVD made of a video that "showed men in military fatigues shooting assault weapons while calling for jihad, or holy war, and shouting in Arabic, 'God is great.' "
Wait... so we caught the guys because they didn't have DVD-writeable technology? And they were dumb enough to have it done at a store?
Thank God for snooping, curious clerks. But what does that say about our official intelligence? It was only after the clerk called police that the smart boys discovered that some of them were here illegally and had illegal firearms. What if they had actually been smart enough to avoid letting incriminatory footage into the hands of an outsider?
Well, New Jersey's safe for now. Mother Nature's looking more dangerous than Father Turban these days. A tornado wiped out 90% of a small Kansas town, only killing 10, while the rest of the state as well as parts of Missouri are flooding, thanks to all the recent rainfall.
And there's thunderstorms forecasted for tomorrow.
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I might sound horrible for saying this, but I find it strangely funny that the West Coast and the East Coast are both on fire while the Midwest floods. It's tragically hilarious.
Sarah.
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