“7 Boobs”
Updated on June 24, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Don’t get me wrong: Their expressed desire to kill American citizens made the Miami wackos a threat. The feds deserve nothing but praise for their successful infiltration and apprehension of the group.
On the other hand, because the usual suspects will inevitably forget their proclamations of “fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here” (remember that?) and cite this gang as another example of why we must surrender our civil liberties in the name of the war on terror, it’s important to bear in mind what we were really dealing with in the “Miami 7″:
7 boobs - hardly bombers
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU* * *
[Attorney General Alberto] Gonzales admitted the malevolent seven posed no threat.
“They didn’t have the materials they requested,” he said. “They didn’t receive the weapons.”
FBI Deputy Director John Pistole put it more bluntly: “In terms of the plans, it was more aspirational than operational.”
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Besides talking about bombings, the group’s only move toward its goal was to use a camera provided by an FBI informant to photograph the bureau’s Miami office and a National Guard armory, the indictment said.
“[The suspects] wanted to destroy the Sears Tower, but they had no capability to do it. They never got to that point - or could have,” a top counterterrorism official told the Daily News.
The right’s claim of an intractable conflict between freedom and safety is a classic false dichotomy; but even if our only options were a tattered but intact copy of the Bill of Rights or idiots like these running around wishing Allah would answer their prayers and give them the capability to take down a few mailboxes, I’ll take the former every time.
UPDATE: The Carpetbagger Report has more and notes a trend in exaggerated reports of foiled terror plots. (Via C&L).
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