| Here in California I watched some of the local news reports on TV and apparently this one person when to Pakistan (spelling?) and spent some time at a terrorist training camp (which was located next to a military base). At first he denied the charge but failed a lie detector test - at which time he confessed to being involved in the training and that he was instructed to return to the USA and to blow up large supermarkets and/or hospitals. It seems after his return he did not (or was not able) to carry out those objectives. He was one individual and not a "cell" (more then one) as far as arrest records indicate but they are investigating to see if he attempted to inlist others here or if he did in fact find others to join such a operation.
The interesting fact is he was not trained nor knew of any training that would involve weapons of mass distruction or some big scale plan to out-do the 9-11 incident. Just the smaller car bombs which is in fact bad enough but not as scary as we are led to expect. Seems the terrorist network is back to doing the smaller stuff like they did in the basement of the World Trade Center before the airplane attacks - not much more of a threat then oil refineries accidently blowing up in Texas.
That is my opinion based loosely on local TV coverage.
Technosoul. |