Federal agents, including the FBI, are launching a series of raids tonight targeting a suspected terror cell based in Miami. According to sources familiar with the investigation, the group allegedly planned to bomb the FBI building in Miami and the Sears Tower in Chicago.
Aahhh, don't worry, be happy, say the dolce-far-niente advocates. Whatever, dude.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
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i think this is actually making my point: they are planning isolated attacks on a couple of buildings, not on destroying the city. Mafia opn steroids, not nagasaki.
in other words, this is crime, serious crime but only crime. not the end of the world.
Maybe this single incident could fit into your category -- see, I pitched a softball here. Fine. And there are surely here and there isolated attacks or dastardly plots that could also, in isolation, fit into such a scheme. Fine. And, by the way, that was the position of the US Government throughout the 1990s - nothing to worry, a couple of tomahawks lobbed in the desert after each outrage (WTC, Tanzania, Kenya, Khobar, Cole, etc), will keep the miscreants in their place. But the fallacy of this approach was revealed to all who have eyes to see
on a September morning about 5 years ago. The reasons are too many, and too complex to discuss here, maybe another time.
To use only a pale analogy, though, remember the pointilliste paintings of a Seurat or Signac? You are looking at just a dot here -- each one by itself has little or no meaning. You need to step back, look at the whole picture, to discern some form and shape, and realize some meaning behind all the pointless madness. Pinko sunglasses prevent that, alas.
More details emerging.
... some of the suspects are members of a radical Muslim group and that at least one had taken "an al Qaeda oath." They had carried out surveillance on the Sears Tower and FBI building in Miami, the sources said. [..] five of the seven men were Americans, one was an illegal immigrant from Haiti whose visa had expired and the seventh was a resident alien.
Also, here:
the men ran a "military boot camp" from the building. "They would come out late at night and exercise. It seemed like a military boot camp they were working on there. They would come out and stand guard," said Tashawn Rose. "They seemed brainwashed. They said they had given their lives to Allah," she added.
Too much steroids keeping them awake at night?
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