NY Post - May 22, 2009
It's scant comfort that the four men ar rested Wednesday night as they car ried out what they thought was their own private jihad -- attempting to car-bomb two Riverdale synagogues and shoot down military planes in upstate Newburgh -- were not trained terrorists.
Don't be misled by the amateurish nature of their misadventure. What the four lacked in brains, they more than made up for in malign intent.
And the fact that their plot went as far as it did -- the men actually had planted what they thought were deadly bombs before the feds moved in -- dramatically underscores, as Police Commissioner Ray Kelly noted, the very real threat of homegrown terror cells.
The imitators, in other words, are potentially as dangerous as those sent from abroad by the likes of al Qaeda.
New York is lucky that these four were nabbed as part of an elaborate sting in which an informant supplied them with inert explosives and an inoperable Stinger surface-to-air missile.
Who's to say their dreams of unleashing death and destruction couldn't have been realized -- had they approached someone who was tied to Islamist terrorists instead of working with the feds? (read more...)
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