[adam_az]

Not just that, an Orthodox Jew who allagedly participates in the secretive hawala system, which is widely in the Middle East - by Muslims!

The story just broke, and not a whole lot of information has been released yet. I hope they caught some real terrorists, but I'm awful skeptical of "sting" operations, especially ones involving foreign intelligence services that are only a modicum of friendly to us.

TO those who say it's a double standard to automatically accept that a Muslim is a terrorist but a Jew is not, well, it's not if you consider statistical probability. There are daily Islamic terrorist attacks around the world, but when's the last time you heard of a Jewish suicide bomber, or Jews trying to shoot down commercial aircraft with missiles? It's definately atypical behavior, and therefore I belive worthy of some skepticism.

[mr.pink]

...but when's the last time you heard of a Jewish suicide bomber, or Jews trying to shoot down commercial aircraft with missiles?

Well, it was only about three months ago when the florida dentist and his accomplices were prevented from a perpetrating massive quasi-military attack terrorist attack on Americans.

Is it "atypical behaviour"?...why yes....but it's certainly not unheard of.

[Alouette]

Not just that, an Orthodox Jew who allagedly participates in the secretive hawala system

OK, I'll bite. I've heard of pulsa denira and there is nothing secretive about havdalah but what in the heck is hawala?????