So far, the only American Muslims who have plotted to attack their country have been converts. Although this guy also was a convert, the London and Madrid train bombings were from native Muslims (Muslim by birth).
No worries, we'll all be much safer once the dems take over! /s
BBC: Prosecution case against al-Qaeda Briton
Video at website....
Do you remember when the threat level was raised to high in August 2004 right after the Dem Convention? Do you remember hearing this kind of stuff then?
First from WRONG AGAIN Larry Johnson stalwart defender of the kingdom of Wilson-Plame and VIPS leader:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3809463
Expert: Terror Threat Warning 'Irresponsible'
by Steve Inskeep
Morning Edition, August 2, 2004 • Larry Johnson, a former counter-terrorism official at the CIA and State Department, calls the Bush administration "irresponsible" for raising the terror threat level. Johnson says intelligence suggests attacks on U.S. financial institutions have been considered -- not that they are in the works. He speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep.
And this other piece of slime from The Nation:
http://www.davidsirota.com/index.php/vote-for-bush-or-die/
A few days later–during the period when attention to nominee Kerry would traditionally lead to a bounce in popularity–Ridge announced that he was raising the threat level in New York City, Northern New Jersey and the District of Columbia to “Code Orange.” He claimed the threat level was being raised because of “new and unusually specific information about where Al Qaeda would like to attack.” Undermining his claim that “we don’t do politics in the Department of Homeland Security,” he wove a campaign-style endorsement of the President into his warning: “We must understand that the kind of information available to us today is the result of the President’s leadership in the war against terror,” Ridge declared just a few breaths after invoking frightening images of “explosives,” “weapons of mass destruction” and “biological pathogens.”
But Ridge neglected to mention that most of the information was at least three years old, much of it surveillance data that had been collected before 9/11. Ridge also conceded that New York City–which was already at “Code Orange” before his announcement–would not raise its level of alert.
A week later the right-wing media did its best to deflect the embarrassment by once again dredging up the myth that a vote against Bush is a vote for terrorists.
There's lots more of this kind of foolishness out there. These people think we're playing some kind of a game.