The Independent Bitch Slaps US Terrorist Arrests

On Thursday America breathed a sigh of relief as our government informed us that a terrorist organization related to Al-Qaeda had been taken down in Florida. My God were we lucky! These vile terrorists wanted to blow up our beloved Sear Tower that is probably in Chicago most of us think. US Attorney General, Alberto “The Torturer” Gonzales held a press conference to let the well-protected citizens know that we were now safe. He denounced an attempt to "wage war against America". Shudder.

Twenty-four hours later, reality started to emerge and it painted an entirely different picture. The seven young black men arrested in Miami and Atlanta had never been in touch with Al-Qaeda, and had no explosives. Their "plan" to destroy America's tallest building was actually more like “hope.” All they had really done was to tell an FBI informant that they wanted to blow some stuff up. The informant was posing as a member of Al-Qaeda. None of the seven arrested had ever been on a terrorist watch list. John Pistole, the bureau's deputy director, described the plan on Friday as "aspirational rather than operational.”

In Mid-December the ringleader, Narseal Baptiste, met with the informant as asked for equipment including uniforms, machine guns, explosives, cars and $50,000 in cash for an “Islamic Army” that would carry out a mission similar to 9/11. We can be thankful it was an FBI informant because Al-Qaeda would most certainly have given money to an unemployed dude who has some friends with absolutely no training or know-how. Those words are pretty much the extent of this “terrorist organization.”

In truth, the “terrorists” were merely a few semi-unemployed men, most of them petty criminals, from Liberty City, a poor black Miami neighborhood. I did far more damage to that neighborhood in Grand Theft Auto than they could ever dream of. Even their religious leanings are in dispute. Neighbors say they were part of a group, called Seas of David that mixes Christian and Islamic elements.

Arresting people then exaggerating their capabilities and abilities is something at which the Bush administration excels. 401 people have been charged with "terrorism-related offences" since 9/11, of those 212 have been convicted and only a tiny number of these were true terrorists.

In 2002 John Ashcroft, called a press conference to announce the arrest of Jose Padilla, the so-called "dirty bomber" who was supposedly preparing an attack on Washington with a radioactive bomb. Padilla was stuck in a Navy brig without charge for over three years, and then transferred to a civilian prison just before a federal court judge was to rule that charges must be brought. He faces trial in Miami later this year on different, vague, terrorist charges. Members of a “sleeper cell” in Detroit had their convictions quashed in 2004 because prosecutors had manipulated evidence. In December 2005, the trial of Sami al-Arian, accused of links with Islamic Jihad terrorists, ended in embarrassment for the government when the Florida university professor was acquitted.

The biggest successes have nothing to do US law enforcement. Richard Reid, “The shoe bomber was stopped by alert flight attendants in December 2001, while Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the Virginia student serving a 30-year sentence for threatening to kill President George Bush, was caught by police in Saudi Arabia.

Thank you for “saving” us from the “terrorists” Mr. Bush.

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