[APBaer]

'It's not the first time a captured al Qaeda operative has made up a huge story and scared a lot of people."

Gee, do you think he might have been encouraged in doing that by the fact that the prior operatives weren't skinned alive and buried in pig fat?

[Alice in Wonderland]

Yeah, just like I think Richard Reid was encouraged by, who I believe was, the first shoe bomber on November 11, 2001 (AA Flight 587).

Oh, wait ... the official line is that the plane was brought down because of seagulls ... or loose tail bolts ... or a gust of wind ... or bad French plastic ... or the nervious twitch of the pilot's foot on the rudder ... or anything but a bomb ...

Gee, I wonder whatever happened to those charred pages of the Koran that were found in the wreckage ... the ones that were turned over to law enforcement ...