Here we go. The FBI blow-torch raid and arrests of the Karate Seven down here in South "Flaw-duh" has launched the right wing crazy boat online.
Powerline -- surprise, surprise -- buys the story hook, line and sinker, including a totally made-up Qaida connection (even the official story says they had no ties to Bin Laden...)
Michelle Malkin says Black Muslims are muy scary... and she's got the spooky Black men pictures to prove it!
Allah Pundit can't believe Fox News is getting beaten on the story! Yeah, maybe having to break it to Santorum that the WMD story was a crocker broke the Bush-Cheney official network's spirit.
Blogs of War puts up a pic that makes the Miami raid look just the way the Bushies like it -- like it actually has something to do with the global war on terror!!! And BOW has this kid in a candy store comment:
LOL oh my god, these wingers are freaking NUTS!!! BOW has links to all the outlandish conspiracy theories circulating on the right.
Oh, I can't resist, here's some more crazy for ya:
They’re calling it homegrown terror but apparently these guys were lead to believe that they were helping a radical Islamic terrorist. That’s frightening.
Who could these people possibly be? What could conceivably motivate them? Here’s a couple of wild-assed guesses: the “citizens” are either naturalized immigrants from the middle east, or part of the immediate families of same, and they share a particular set of religious beliefs that are Islamic in nature.
It’s just too early to tell but early reports seem to support that hunch. We’ll know soon.
CNN broadcast is reporting that one suspect took an “Al Qaeda Oath.” Bill’s hunch is sounding pretty solid. MSNBC has more info on the suspects:
The 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.
Friday is going to be…interesting.
HA!!! then, this nutcase says that he's looking for the ... wait for it ... "tin foil beanies" on the left to begin questioning the story.
Boy do I love the right wing blogosphere. They are freaking hilarious!
I'm almost afraid to see what AJ has to say about this ...
Guys. Take a deep breath. Liberty City is not Peshwar. It's the hood, man. These are probably some militant brothas working out and doing marshal arts and fancying themseelves revolutionaries. The idea that they had a serious plot going, or that they had any conceivable ties -- familial or otherwise -- to actual terrorists, is laughable. Prediction: this will go the way of the dirty bomber and the two yokels who were supposed to blow up electrical transformers in South Florida but wound up trying to buy a couple of AK-47s with a bad credit card. They're doing 5 years apiece for some low-level violation today, after getting the Ashcroft treatment not long before the 2002 midterms.
And of course, no post on this subject would be complete without a quote from the Queen of Crazy: Debbie Schlussel. Go Debbie:
Does life imitate art in the antics of terrorists? Definitely. And details of the Miami Al-Qaeda terror cell, busted today, bolster that.
And were they busted today to avoid them bombing a building at Friday's Miami Heat victory parade (for winning the NBA Championship) in downtown Miami? The team is owned by Israeli Jews . . . er, "evil Zionists." And the Heat had a moment of silence for American victim of Palestinian terror, Daniel Wultz (more here), during the NBA Play-offs.
The Miami terrorists, Black Muslims, behaved just like the terror cell in HBO's "Sleeper Cell" (more here). (Lots of videos of arrests of the Miami terror cell members, interviews with relatives of the terrorists, and neighbors from various Miami TV stations here.)
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