Mmm. Josh has been pointing out some salient differences between the recently busted-up terror “cell” in Miami and, er, a real terrorist group.
Now, Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball says some are wondering if the feds can get charges to stick on these boys. “Some civil-liberties activists complained that the informant’s prodding may have helped create a plot that otherwise wouldn’t have existed,” he writes. In other words, the band warn’t even creative enough to think of blowing up the Sears Tower on their own?
They certainly had a flair for the dramatic. Outside the warehouse HQ the seven would-be terrorists called “The Temple,” the men “took turns standing guard outside the door, dressed up in makeshift military uniforms and combat boots. Sometimes they covered their faces with ski masks,” reports Hosenball.
Because nothing hides a sleeper cell better than a uniformed guard wearing a ski mask and combat boots in sweltering Florida heat.