n this case, the alleged perps -- Onta Williams, James Cromitie, David Williams, and Laguerre Payen -- were losers, ex-cons, drug addicts. Al Qaeda they're not. Without the assistance of the agent who entrapped them, they would never have dreamed of committing political violence, nor would they have had the slightest idea about where to acquire plastic explosives or a Stinger missile. That didn't stop prosecutors from acting as if they'd captured Osama bin Laden himself.
The media, including the L.A. TImes has been breathlessly reporting it as a "home grown terror plot" thwarted by the vigilant FBI. Turns out it was an FBI agent-provocateur who supplied them with an inoperable Stinger missile supposedly to shoot down military aircraft. According to the Alternet story, the four losers involved would have had no idea how to go about an attack or where to get explosives or weapons without the FBI agent's help.
And the politicians were all celebrating the bust as if another 9 / 11 had been stopped before it happened along with reminders about how close we all are to Annihilation by "Islamofaschists".
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