I don't see any report on the reason behind the Fort Dix plot. Perhaps it was just convenient, since five of the men lived 20 miles from there.
And also, this was a sting operation. The men were lured into buying weapons from a dealer working with the FBI. It makes me wonder who brought this group together and where the plot originated.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Update 1:00pm: Josh Marshall has some concerns about the arrests along other lines. He could be on to something, but it wasn't my first thought. Or second. In fact, it hadn't actually occurred to me at all and might never have done. It also strikes me as an unusual way of thinking for Josh (would be more like me to think that way than him). He must be getting more skeptical/paranoid after some years of covering the Bush administration's creating stories out of whole cloth.
I haven't been paying much attention, but when I saw the story, I thought pretty much the same thing Josh said. And, if there's any truth to it--are "they" fighting us here so "they" don't have to fight us there? Do they prefer leading our troops home to waiting forever to follow them?
ReplyDeletePlus, scour the news closely--the arrests, which apparently could have been made any time in the past 16 months, must have been announced now to cover up something.
when i was doing research in the IPM business, we made use of insect pheromones to interrupt mating cycles. one of the methods was to saturate the air with the particular insect's mating pheromone. in order to mate, males find their way to females by following a scent trail. if all the air is saturated, the trails are obscured. my guess is that this could be the republican plan. saturate the airWAVES with news of and leads to scandals until we can no longer find any one track leading anywhere.
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