Posted on 06/22/2006 6:13:02 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., a federal law enforcement official said.
The official told The Associated Press the alleged plotters were mainly Americans with no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations. He spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt news conferences planned for Friday in Washington and Miami.
Miami U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said in a statement that the investigation was an ongoing operation and that more details would be released Friday. Local media reported that agents were raiding a warehouse in Miami's Liberty City section.
"There is no imminent threat to Miami or any other area because of these operations," said Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman in Washington. He declined further comment.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was scheduled to hold a news conference Friday to discuss the raid. A simultaneous news conference was to be held in Miami.
Cedric Thomas, an owner of Thomas Produce Market, told The Miami Herald the area around his store was teeming with federal agents.
"There is a ton of guys in uniforms moving around, blocking the streets," Thomas said.
Several terrorism investigations have had south Florida links. Several of the Sept. 11 hijackers lived and trained in the area, including ringleader Mohamed Atta, and several plots by Cuban-Americans against Fidel Castro's government have been based in Miami.
Jose Padilla, a former resident once accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive bomb in the U.S., is charged in Miami with being part of a North American terror cell.
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Associated Press Writer Mark Sherman in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
If they are muslims, somebody ought to take to task the news organizations that denied muslims were involved early on. This politically correct "it's a white guy in a white van reporting needs to end". It's as bad as Rather's "fake but accurate". This is "fake but religiously sensitive"
If a terrorist plot is announced on MS-NBC, would anyone see it?
AP suspected Cuban ex-pats.
There are now SOME black supremacist groups (I think including Nation of Islam) on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate groups list.
Ok, my pure speculation... prison trained radical Islamic transformed idiots. Just my guess, shoot me if you want? Fastest growing religion in our prisons, fueled on hate towards the white establishment according to one author on the subject.
radical black muslims? Isn't that racist? ;) /s
Johnny Walker was an American. He put on the uniform of a foreign army and went to war AFTER 9-11.
FBI agents swarmed over a warehouse in Miami's Liberty City area, using a blowtorch to take off its metal door. Neighbors said the suspects said they were Muslim and had tried to recruit young people to join their group, which seemed militaristic.I would think that al Q would try to link up with Black Muslims, who could blend into major city populations with less notice than a bunch of Middle EasternersThe men — part of a radical Black Muslim group — were planning terror acts in Miami and Chicago, officials say. The planned targets were the Sears Tower in Chicago and a federal building in Miami.
Radical African-American muslims.
Just watch, Al and Jesse and the NAACP will jump to their defense and say its racism.
"Black Muslims" confirmed by MSNBC, see my post 30
They were black muslime prison converts to the religion of pieces, apparently.
Democrat Underground talking point BROADCAST. Begin:
Only whites can commit hate crimes. In fact, white males (except for progressives, and especially homosexuals), are incapable of any action EXCEPT a hate crime.
This has been a Democrat Underground talking points BROADCAST. End.
I'm an Aussie. If it's radical it's radical, if it's black it's black and if it's muslim it's muslim! PC hasn't entered our vocabulary YET! Rather refreshing to see that combination up front and in the open in the US.
You need more of it, IMO.
Fox Chicago reports that one of the koranimals is also an ILLEGAL ALIEN from Haiti.
>>>koranimals<<<<
Funny and original!
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