Saturday, June 02, 2007
By Cernig
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Let's review shall we?
WNBC, who broke the story, said that one of the alleged plotters "
sought help in carrying out a plan and went to an FBI informant, who gathered information about the plot":
Aviation officials said there is no major threat to air travel related to this plot since it was caught in the developmental stages.
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Officials said the suspects never got hold of explosive devices.
ABC's The Blotter:
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The plot, authorities stress, was not at an operational stage, and the plotters, who included a former airport employee, had no ability to execute it.
The investigation, which appears to have been ongoing for at least two years, was brought to a conclusion when one suspect was about to leave jurisdictions where U.S. authorities had the ability to monitor his activities.
CNN reveals that three of the four plotters weren't even in the US at the time of their arrest and adds that "Homeland Security sources said there is no current threat at the airport and that
the attack as planned was "not technically feasible." And
the WaPo reveals how long this "plot" was let run before it's fortuitously-timed breaking today.
U.S. officials said the men had been infiltrated by a law enforcement informant last July, and their plot was still in the planning stages. The men had links to "an international network of Muslim extremists" but apparently did not have connections to al-Qaeda or other known terrorist groups, officials said.
I'm with sane-conservative
Dr. Stephen Taylor on this one.
I must confess I am now to the point with these arrests that I have to wonder exactly what we have here. Is this really a “terror” plot or is the work of disgruntled worker? Was this simply the ranting fantasies of a few people or was this some more nefarious plan?
When we are talking about “indirect” links to overseas “terror elements” and the fact that these guys lacks the “technical savvy” to carry out the attack, I lean towards assuming we have here disgruntled cranks.
At a minimum it sound more like the
Miami 7 than a serious plot.
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