Some newspapers and media outlets just don't understand the value of fear and sorry attempts at changing the subject after a failed propaganda campaign. Within days of killing the over-hyped al-Zarqawi, we had a flurry of spin and propaganda that quickly met with the realities of Iraq. In a predictable manner, Gonzalez tried his best to terrify America with this breaking fear story that every day sounds more and more like a bunch of loonies who had no actual al-Qaeda ties and who posed little, if any actual terror threat. Is anyone besides the most extreme wingnuts actually believing the administration on this?
When the dust had settled barely 24 hours later, a rather more modest version of events had emerged. The seven young black men arrested at a warehouse in Miami and Atlanta had never been in touch with al-Qa'ida, and had no explosives. Their "plan" to destroy America's tallest building was little more than wishful thinking, expressed by one of them to an FBI informant purporting to be a member of Osama bin Laden's terrorist organisation.
