Saturday, June 24, 2006

Deja vu all over again.


"OMFG, we're all gonna die and ... hang on (emphasis added):

Indictment of suspected terrorists contains little evidence of plot

Even as Justice Department officials trumpeted the arrests of seven Florida men accused of planning to wage a "full ground war against the United States," they acknowledged the group did not have the means to carry out the plan.

The Justice Department unveiled the arrests with an orchestrated series of press conferences in two cities, but the severity of the charges compared with the seemingly amateurish-nature of the group raised concerns among civil libertarians.

"We're as puzzled as everyone else," said Howard Simon, the director of the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. "There's no weapons, no explosives, but this major announcement."

The seven men are charged with conspiring to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and FBI buildings in five cities. Prosecutors said they swore allegiance to al-Qaida after meeting with a confidential government informant who was posing as a representative of the terrorist group.

But after sweeps of various locations in Miami, government agents found no explosives or weapons. Investigators also did not document any direct links to al-Qaida.

No explosives? No problem. Dial 1-800-THE-RCMP. Thirty minutes or it's free.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Their leader occasonally wore a bath robe and cape to their martial arts practices. No fair, they're way cooler.

Anonymous said...

i think you are stuck on auto-repeat. try giving yourself a sound smack upside the head and maybe you can shake a few original ideas loose.