Posted on 06/19/2008 9:01:34 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON (CBS News) ―
An ex-commando, working undercover for the FBI, took photographs as aspiring terrorists plotted to carry out attacks against U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
They trained with weapons and learned how to make suicide vests.
Only this didn't happen in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan. This training played out in Toledo, Ohio, and involved three Americans drawn to the call of Jihad, CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Bob Orr reports.
While these radicals have now been convicted, CBS News has learned e-mails and phone calls connect the Toledo cell to terror suspects in at least three other North American cities - and to a notorious al Qaeda operative.
"Its important that we just don't look at cells in isolation, we look at their connectivity to each other," said CBS News homeland security consultant Paul Kurtz.
Here's how this radical web was spun.
The Toledo trio was in frequent contact with two Chicago men who are now charged with plotting attacks of their own.
Those Chicago suspects in turn communicated with two college-age students in Atlanta, sending e-mails asking them to "come and see our preparation..." for violent Jihad.
That preparation, the government charges, was conspiring with a Canadian terror cell to bomb Toronto landmarks.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs13.com ...
Hang ‘em.
Lest anyone think I’m a violent right wing extremist by uttering that ..
I didn’t say what I’d hang ‘em by. 8-]
btt
Thanks for the link - I hope there are many, many more like this undercover agent working on this stuff.
fyi
Thanks for the ping Ernest.
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