[JennysCool]

Karim Koubriti, Ahmed Hannan, Youssef Hmimssa, Farouk Ali-Haimoud and a man only known by the first name Abdella

That's just not right!!! There needs to be a Jones or a Wilson in there somewhere ... This smacks of PROFILING!

[OldFriend]

Didn't Detroit refuse to offer assistance to the Justice Department with regard to tracking down suspicious persons?

[Dialup Llama]

And they are using powerful supercomputers to analyze global trade in gold, diamonds, tanzanite and honey for evidence of terrorist financing scheme. Already three Yemeni honey businesses have been identified by U.S. officials as possible fronts for terrorist money, and several other investigations are under way, officials said.

Seems like they are using some powerful analytical tools. I like this alot. They are searching for patterns which will reveal the network.

[Dialup Llama]

Federal agents believe they have uncovered a broad effort by American citizens, many of them immigrants, to use credit card thefts, illegal cigarette sales, diverted charitable funds and cash smuggled in airline luggage to enrich anti-American and anti-Israeli terror groups with money that originated in the United States, officials said.

As has been pointed out here in FR, there is a broad subculture in the US which has believes that the 9-11 attacks were great. These people either, knew about terrorism but failed to notify or actually provided assistance knowing what the end would be.

[Isle of sanity in CA]

They didn't indict Daschle yet? What's the holdup? Maybe conspiring to support terrorism for political game is Ok.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Sure looks like Bush's War on Terrorism is failing, too. < /sarcasm >

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The indictment alleges the men "operated as a covert underground support unit for terrorist attacks within and outside the United States, as well as a "sleeper" operational combat cell.

"The object of the conspiracy was, among other things, to cause economic harm to U.S. businesses, to provide personnel, indoctrination, recruitment and training, safe houses, mail drops, intelligence target data collection, weapons, false documentation and identification, and assistance and other covert support for the purpose of engaging in violent attacks against persons and buildings within the territory of Jordan, Turkey, and the United States," the court document said.

And pray tell, exactly what is the penalty for this? If conspiracy like this is being prosecuted under pre 9-11 liberalized (I never met a criminal that I didn't want to set free) federal laws, then these laws must be overhauled immediately to reflect the gravity of the offense. Conviction should result in a death sentence (by hanging), to be carried out immediately afcter the sentence having been upheld by a single (and rapid) appeal.

The indictment is expected to the first of a string accusing Americans of providing support from within the United States to foreign terrorists groups...Federal agents believe they have uncovered a broad effort by American citizens, many of them immigrants, to use credit card thefts, illegal cigarette sales, diverted charitable funds and cash smuggled in airline luggage to enrich anti-American and anti-Israeli terror groups with money that originated in the United States, officials said.

The liberal press here is the "fifth column", so I guess this makes the al-queda network the "sixth column". The entire labor force of the INS should be tried for treason.