Posted on 06/05/2006 4:14:43 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
U.S. officials believe Canadian arrests over the weekend and three recent domestic incidents in the United States are evidence the U.S. will soon be hit again by a terrorist attack. Privately, they say, they'd be surprised if it didn't come by the end of the year, reports CBS News correspondent Jim Stewart.
The first of the domestic incidents, all of which drew little attention at the time, began with the holdup of a string of Torrance, Calif. gas stations last summer. Muslim converts who bonded together in prison planned to use the robberies to finance attacks on 20 Army recruiting stations.
Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton admits they stumbled on the plot during a search.
"Make no mistake about it," Bratton said. "We dodged a bullet here perhaps many bullets."
Police in Toledo, Ohio, busted another cell in February. This one consisted of three men training to attack U.S. forces overseas. Once again, luck played a role. When they tried to enlist someone in their mosque to help, he turned them in.
"These individuals are often hiding in plain sight in cities like Torrance and now Toledo," says John Pistole, a FBI deputy director.
Two months ago, a pair of Atlanta men, one a Georgia Tech engineering student, were arrested not long after communicating by e-mail with two of the suspects arrested in Canada over the weekend. The Atlanta men are charged with videotaping domestic targets, including the U.S. Capitol and the World Bank.
Analysts now conclude similarities between all the cases were dramatic: All were self-financed, self-motivated, and in each case the men were seeking out others to join their cell.
In short, Osama bin Laden didn't pay for these plots, recruit for them or even know of them. They were all totally homegrown even amateurish. But if four, including the one in Canada, have been uncovered in just 11 months, officials fear there are inevitably other plots that have not been and are maturing even now.
The next attack here, officials predict, will bear no resemblance to Sept. 11. The casualty toll will not be that high, the target probably not that big. We may not even recognize it for what it is at first, they say. But it's coming of that they seem certain.
Sadly, I think you are right. What is it about us that it will probably take two Pearl Harbors to recognize the threat perpetrated by Muslims in the West ?
And the idiot in Raleigh that tried to mow people down with his SUV. Keeping an eye on Muslims is not racial profiling... it just makes good sense.
"I always thought a suicide bomber at the food court in the mall would be next. Some muslim yo-yo screaming, "Allah Akbar!" before detonating himself.."
You bring up a good point ... just why do you think that this has NOT happened yet ?
Brilliant, best post of the day.
Yes, exactly. I learned early on in this administration that I had to quit listening to the press...and start observing behavior. Frankly, it's not like they hide it. They allow the oppositions assumptions to hide it...but that is a different thing.
Out in full force by the end of July. Momentum building overtime after Labor Day. Win in November. Rinse and repeat. ; ).
The problem with declaring was is - what country?
The time for a border security act was in the days following 911. No one would of dared voted "NO" that week. Bush has some kind of "mis amigos" thing going on with the Mexicans and for some reason can't say what it is exactly.
yup!
Yes, and the Islamo-Fascists are keenly aware of the Media and the Liberal/Socialists here who would jump on the election year attack as a means to further "bash Bush", and "we're not safer...we need our troops home NOW" that would follow an attack. They would milk every ounce of mileage in the MSM to convince the dupes that only THEY (the "chosen ones", aka, Democrats) can lead this country to safety, prosperity, world-supported kumbaya peace, yada, yada, yada.
Can't you see Nancy Piglosi(Guiness most face-lifts winner) on the tube spouting her crap?
It's not clear from the article, but it appears that the guys in Atlanta were caught because authorities were watching the communications of specific individuals whom they had reason to suspect. I'm all for that; it's when we get into mass surveilliance of those not suspected of anything that I get concerned.
Yep...I am with you on that....the same as 2004 when "W" won, and they couldn't believe it..and still say it was the "theft" in Ohio.
They are also legion. They're like weeds. They keep popping up unpredictably always spawned by a sick and evil ideology.
You know what "they" say... The terrorists only have to get it right once, we have to get it right 100% of the time. The most ridiculous, self-imposed handicap I've ever heard in my life. If I didn't know better, I'd say the people who imposed it actually want us to lose this war... Wait!... The people who imposed it in the final analysis was the left and its phony morality.
Its been my observation that they dont allow the dems to hide it so much as they sit quietly by and feed the dems rope, and when the time is right the give the rope a yank pulling them into the harsh light of day
Whew. How long did it take you to figure that out?
I don't think the wake up will happen until a dirty or low yield nuke, hits a mid size mid-west city.
They will go for the heartland this time, a solid gut punch.
They have no idea the Giant they will awaken. Were slow to anger but once it happens all bets will be off.
funny because its TRUE
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