Excellent rant!
Only a very small percentage of muslims would ever turn muslim terrorists in, IMO. The most likely scenario, IMO, is that Lindh gave them up, which is why they aren't charged with treason. Because we need 2 witnesses, these 8 will stick together. I believe Lindh dealt on the treason charge (we certainly could have found more than 2 soldiers who saw him there); but these 8 won't, because there's only Lindh's testimony against them. I don't believe for a moment that "the community" was much, if any, help at all.
the five men had received training at the camp in the use of "Russian assault rifles, handguns and long-range rifles."
While they may have trained in other things too, it sounds like these guys planned to do public massacres, assassinations, and kidnappings as documented in that al-Qaeda training video
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/744321/posts?page=1#34.
My son teaches guitar at a music store in the local mall. That worries me a bit because a lot of his students are adults. It seems to me that a guitar case would provide excellent cover for something like an uzi. People at the mall, including security, are used to seeing guitar students carry their guitar cases in.
Once they are back in the small studio at the rear of the store, my son wouldn't have a chance if a terrorist whipped out a gun instead of a guitar. He could be out in the main mall reeking havoc in a matter of seconds.
If atrocities like that start happening, then the muslim community is going to find out what real harrassment is.
I don't think Al-Qaeda will be carrying Uzis.