This story was obviously a successful attempt by the US Govt. to create a major propaganda news item in order to blow away a major embarassment for the US Govt, namely, the fact that while the USG wastes its citizens' and visitors' time by making them remove their shoes at major airports, the runways themselves remain totally unguarded, as proven by the fishermen stranded at NY airport the very day of this fake "breakthrough" by FBI.

You will notice that on days when the US Govt has been seriously embarassed by some scandal or other, suddenly, miraculously, they come up with a new "revelation" of a terrorist threat or something that knocks the embarassing story off the front pages. The bourgeois press is all too willing to take the bait. This is called "gray propaganda" and is described quite well by Philip Agee in his very interesting book, "Inside the Company: CIA Diary". Check it out.

Varlet

the year long investigation that resulted in 5 arrest and led to 7 other independant investigations was a total hoax.

So I woke up yesterday morning to hear WCBS-AM, a radio station here in New York, touting an ABC story--that's right, a story by a rival network--that purports to debunk the government's case against Hemant Lakhani, the British national who stands accused of agreeing to sell a surface-to-air missile to an FBI agent posing as an al Qaeda terrorist. The ABC story quotes unnamed "law enforcement officials" as saying, in the network's words, that "much of the alleged missile plot was a government setup from start to finish."

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/World/missile030813_sting.html

Well, yeah, it was a sting operation. ABC's dumb journalism seems to be intended to "correct" other news outlets' dumb journalism in initially reporting the story. As blogger Josh Marshall points out, an MSNBC report (since edited) actually contained this sentence: "It was not immediately clear whether the plot was connected to al-Qaida or some other terrorist network." Since the purported al Qaeda operative in the "plot" was actually an FBI agent, it should have been immediately clear to anyone with a brain in his head.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/aug0302.html#0813031250am

Honey, you left out the bottom portion of the article (convienently).

that stated....

-------But in Washington, senior Justice Department officials were “not happy,” said one law-enforcement official. “We didn’t want this to get out before we could determine whether this guy would cooperate or not.” For all the hoopla over the case, the official confirmed, it was essentially a government-arranged “sting” that never involved any contact with actual terrorists.

I know you love to read "NEWSPEAK" while going potty, but you need to be responsible for the information you post.

Now take your Viagra and come to bed...

DO you ever respond to an argument honey?

All yo do is throw insults when your pea sized brain cant think of anything to say.

You really make your self look stupid.

nOw come over here so i can put your DEPENDS on you

Puddin'Head: "I left out inconvenient facts?"

No....just factual ones....

Gee, Puddin'Head, looks like da missus has got your panties in a bunch....

oh, fuck off ya pantywaiste...as if "Mr. Wilson" has more integrity as a handle than "Mrs. Wilson"...

...fuckin' eunuch....

...sorry to offend your delicate sensibilities...

..."feces"...HAHAHAHAHAHA! What, "shit" is too plebian for you?

...I was right...fuckin' pantywaiste.....