Drifting through the living room Saturday morning, I caught the first MSNBC reports of the plot to blow up gas lines and gas tanks at JFK Airport. First thoughts? "Nasty plan." "Potential for disaster". The more I thought about it, the more it seemed that the news conferences were rushed. Perhaps, I thought, because NBC and other news organizations had gotten the tips and broken the story. The more I heard, the more it seemed that this was much like the other recent revelation of a "plot" - lots of talk by people who really weren't equipped to follow through with the threats.
The plot at JFK Airport — redux
Following up on an item from the weekend, the terrorist plot at JFK Airport in New York certainly sounds like the kind of attack that could, in theory, do very serious damage. And to echo a point I raised on Saturday, the officials who were involved with uncovering the plot and arresting the suspects deserve [...]
To further confuse things...
Above is a screen shot from this morning’s Memeorandum front page. Classic, huh? In brief, the New York Times story says the JFK bomb plot was over-hyped. The plotters wanted to carry out a terrible terrorist act, but they had little capability of doing so. The Telegraph story says that Americans have reason to fear “the [...]
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