Wednesday May 23, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

Finally, a court has begun to convict terrorists for plotting to attack the US and joining forces with our enemies.

Earlier this week a US District Court in NY convicted Rafiq Sabir, a 52 year old American doctor, of pledging allegiance to al Qaeda.

Sabir, originally recruited by an FBI agent, was convicted not because he went to Afghanistan, but because authorities have him on tape taking an oath to Sheik Osama and al Qaeda.
The other parties in the bundle, the taxi driver and the martial arts expert, plead guilty in a deal.
This case is a big feather in the cap of the US Justice Department.

All three terrorists will do time, but anyone looking at the cases carefully will see how woefully and poorly our legal system is on this level.
None of the players was trained or stepped foot in a terrorist training camp.
None of the players met with any al Qaeda personalities, they met only the FBI. The players were checking out sites for a camp in the US.
The players were checking out possible target sites in the US.

The reality is that this group was not really capable of putting a plan together.
The reality is that this group was definitely the enemy.
The reality is that this time the government got lucky.
The reality is that we cannot rely on luck.