On a (slightly) positive note, Suicide bomber was held down and prevented from boarding bus:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/inter...l-mideast.html
This was the first new bomber in 3 weeks.
On a not-so-positive note, Ashcroft has indicted the head of a charity group based here in Chicago for funding Al-Queda. It really rankles (and scares) me how smart the terrorists are. Anyone see 20/20 last night? Frightful. Mohammad Atta was recruited in Hamburg by the group subsequent to the failed WTC bombing in 1993. He was recruited after he had got a degree in city planning and failed to obtain gainful employment in his home - Cairo.
It's sad what lack of jobs and economic means does to a society - especially with the first-world folks as a mirror-image to create envy. Seriously, how many fewer suicide bombers there would be if these guys were busy trying to work at a job. Idle minds and hands - the devil's plaything.
This is not the first such problem with the funding of terrorist groups by charities in the U.S. In 1997, after a decade of appeals, members of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - terrorist support-groups were more brazen with their names before 9/11) appealed (and lost) their deportation ruling with the Supreme Court. Deport -whoah, big deal. Anyway, the text of the indictment is:
http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs...ut10902ind.pdf