[Cicero]

I wonder how much of this is actually true? Or is it a feel-good press release?

The FBI hasn't had an awful lot of luck in the past working with Muslim informers.

[RodgerD]

OK, I know these sorts of graphics don't really move the conversation along, but what else is there to say? We've basically - for no compelling reasons whatsoever - immigrated our very own Gaza Strip and West Bank into our midst. What the heck are we doing??

[F16Fighter]

MEMO TO FBI: HELLO -- Every Mosque is a "sleeper-cell"!!

[piasa]

It sounds like something some reporter cobbled together because he was too lazy to get a real story... or cobbled together to tell his extremist friends to stay unified.

The (supposedly) phony information, that the Black Panthers were anti-Semitic, was leaked to the newspapers, damaging their appeal and reputation, the FBI official said.

The above excerpt is just plain silly- no one needs the FBI to plant a story about the Black Panthers being antisemitic- everyone already knows the group is antisemitic and so forth - there are plenty of articles already out there and so such an article wouldn't be 'phony.'

Of course, there is some truth in the whole story - it is useful to use one group member against another and one group against another- this works extremely well with paranoid people. It's tried on Freerepublic all the time by different 'interest groups,' and works marvelously well on single-issue individuals, people who can't see the big picture.

[toddst]

This makes me wonder how much is intended to simply cause discomfort in the al-Qaeda cells which could lead to mistakes and/or defection. At the least, Muslim communities will become nervous and suspicious of behavior by individuals or small groups that would attract the attention of our law enforcement agencies.

[lonevoice]

I wonder how much of this is actually true?

I'd guess not very much or they wouldn't be talking to NewsMax and UPI about it.