Another terror plot discovered

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When will people finally realize these people are out to kill as many Americans as possible?


MIAMI - Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., including the
FBI office here, a federal law enforcement official said.

As part of the raids related to the arrests, FBI agents swarmed a warehouse in Miami's Liberty City area, using a blowtorch to take off a metal door. One neighbor said the suspects had been sleeping in the warehouse while running what seemed to be a "military boot camp."

The official told The Associated Press the alleged plotters were mainly Americans with no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations. He spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt news conferences planned for Friday in Washington and Miami.

Miami U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said in a statement that the investigation was an ongoing operation and that more details would be released Friday.

"There is no imminent threat to Miami or any other area because of these operations," said Richard Kolko, spokesman for FBI headquarters in Washington. He declined further comment.

FBI Director Robert Mueller, questioned about the case during an appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live," said he couldn't offer many details because "it's an ongoing operation."

"We are conducting a number of arrests and searches" in Miami, Mueller said, which were expected to be wrapped up Friday morning.

Residents living near the warehouse said the men taken into custody described themselves as Muslims and had tried to recruit young people to join their apparently militaristic group.

The residents said FBI agents spent several hours in the neighborhood showing photos of the suspects and seeking information. They said the men, who appeared to be in their teens or 20s, had lived in the area about a year.

The men slept in the warehouse, said Tashawn Rose, 29. "They would come out late at night and exercise. It seemed like a military boot camp that they were working on there. They would come out and stand guard."

She talked to one of the men about a month ago: "They seemed brainwashed. They said they had given their lives to Allah."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060623/ap_on_re_us/terrorism_investigation
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just discovered something interesting.

The story from al-associated says....

The official told The Associated Press the alleged plotters were mainly Americans with no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations. He spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt news conferences planned for Friday in Washington and Miami.


The story from Fox News says....

Officials told FOXNews that the suspects were plotting to wage jihad in conjunction with Al Qaeda and were having elaborate discussions, and that the suspects believed if they knocked down the Sears Tower, that they could effectively cripple the U.S. government.


Is al-associated press trying to downplay this already?
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Is al-associated press trying to downplay this already?


Of course. Because it is representative of a Bush Success, not of a failure.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I hope the FBI didn't listen to the terrorists phone conversations. We wouldn't want to have to get the ACLU involved.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
IN all honestly I hope this isn't another ruby ridge situation. The presence of a government undercover officer, and the lack of weapons or explosives, makes me wonder exactly what they did wrong, and how much they were provoked to do it by the undercover agent.

I think we need to go after these people, but circumstances like Ruby Ridge, where the ATF agent lived with them for ages and practically begged them to break the law, shows that sometimes the government can be overzealous to an extreme. The mere fact that these guys were trying to train in plain view at night and had overt guards posted tells me what kind of dumbasses they were...
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
home grown terrorist are a defined threat, look at Canada and several countries in the middle east, it was only a matter of time before some Americans decided to join the jihad.