[Dallas59]

But it’s still racism to profile and regardless, if they blow us up first...we can’t blow them up. That would be wrong and immoral. Do we want Europeans to dislike us again????/s

[ncfool]

Obummer is blind to what America needs.

[ASA Vet]

USSID 18 is getting harder and harder to interpret. Is Comrade Obama to be considered a U.S. Person or a foreign agent?

[gdani]

But for the much-maligned Patriot Act provisions that equip authorities with warrants to wiretap and seize records of terror suspects, the unthinkable would have happened.

Law enforcement could do such things before the PATRIOT Act.

What I - as well as the author - have no idea of is if the investigative techniques used here were via the PATRIOT Act or any of the other numerous powers available to law enforcement before 9/11.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

I'm afraid of searching for what he was trying to make, but I am curious. On the other hand, he could just as well have been setting up a meth lab.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Wildcat bomber, and kind of stupid.

According to documents filed in New York federal court, Zazi and others had taken a Qatar Airlines flight to Pakistan in August 2008. While there, he allegedly e-mailed himself notes on how to make and handle bombs.

Whether the stuff he was messing around with was in sufficient quantity to bring down a building, or just wreak havoc on mass transit, they don't say. With the peroxide and acetone it sounds like he was trying to make the so called "mother of Satan" explosive TATP. He could easily have blown himself up.

[MagnusMaximus1]

WRONG!

Local, state and federal law enforcement had all the tools they needed to catch this guy BEFORE 9/11 and the so-called “Patriot Act”.

The neo-cons, closet Bush/Cheney “big government conservatives” and the liberals, still controlling the federal bureaucracy, now have even better tools and official (but lame) excuses to harass ordinary law-abiding gunowners under the guise of fighting the so-called “war on terror”.

This arrest is NOT a validation of the so-called “Patriot Act.”

[Freddd]

This can’t be right....I remember all the outrage, accusations against conspiracy boooosh, and Obama deriding the patriot act........

Oh wait, that was before Obama was ‘selected’...

[null and void]

How’s your fruit vendor doing these days?

[PLMerite]

“He was accused last week of conspiring to launch a bombing attack in America with the help of some common beauty supplies and insidious training...”

I’ve often thought some of what happens in a beauty parlor was terrorism.