While I'm glad NYC is safe, I have to wonder about this "plot." From the stories I've read, this plot involved a bunch of guys who hadn't done anything to advance their plot other than talking about it in an Internet chat room and going online to find a publicly available map of New York. That's it. And just like the supposed plot to bomb the Sears Tower, there are no apparent Al Qaeda ties either (they aspired to be tied to Al Qaeda - uh huh).
And oh yeah, get this:
"We believe we have what I'll call eight principal players and that we have them largely identified," [Mark] Mershon [assistant director-in-charge of the FBI New York Field Office] said, adding that the suspects were on three continents. He declined to disclose the nationalities of the suspects.Really? The big bag terror cell is planning to flood lower Manhattan by blowing up the Holland Tunnel and killing God knows how many people, and the US is bringing no charges against those people. How interesting is that? Why, because thought crimes aren't yet against the law in America? I'm serious, I wonder if they could even get these guys on charges here in the US - what would the charge be? They hate our country and really would like us all to die, even though they've done nothing to actually further that goal?
"We don't have charges pending in the U.S. so there certainly will be no extradition," he said.
I'm not saying these are "good people," but I'm having a very difficult time seeing a real terror plot here akin to what Osama did (speaking of which, where is Osama?). If it's a crime to be Muslim and chat online about how great it would be if Americans died, well, then we'd need some pretty big jails to fit a billion people.
