be very afraid!

Homegrown Errorists
You know the Bush Administration has lost its mojo when they can’t even fake a terror alert well.

The seven men arrested in an alleged terrorist plot believed they were conspiring with al Qaeda ‘’to levy war against the United States'’ in attacks that would ‘’be just as good or greater than 9/11,'’ according to a federal indictment unsealed this morning.

The campaign, which never advanced beyond the discussion stage, would begin with the bombing of the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago, according to the indictment.. . .They apparently never had any contact with authentic representatives of al Qaeda. They were not able to obtain explosives, federal officials said.

‘’It was more aspirational than operational,'’ John Pistole, the FBI’s deputy director, said during the Washington news conference.

But the group asked the supposed al Qaeda representative to provide machine guns, boots, uniforms and vehicles, the indictment said.

So these guys had no money, no weapons, no contact with actual terrorists…hell, they didn’t even have uniforms. They’re nutcases who belong in jail, but they’re hardly the “homegrown terrorists” we’re hearing about.

(This Modern World)