DOMESTIC TERRORISM PLOT

Read David Neiwert's posts on an unfolding domestic terrorism investigation involving cyanide bombs and white supremacists, here and here.

This is scary, scary stuff. Other lessons:

• Racial profiling won't do a lot to fight terrorism So far, the only real weapons of mass destruction we've found since 9 - 11 - 2001 have been in the hands of white supremacists (not in Iraq, as David Neiwert observes).


• The media have dropped the ball on domestic terrorism, big time. We're talking about a real WMD plot with real weapons found in the hands of real terrorists, not medical students on a highway trip or folks with minor visa violations who look muslim.


• The federal government doesn't look too good here, either. Note this quote from the article Neiwert links to:
  

  Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, counter-terrorism agencies have been consumed by national efforts to ferret out U.S.-based foreign terrorist cells whose members hail from the Middle East. Federal investigators were not looking for white supremacist groups when they stumbled across Krar by accident.

  
  Priorities are important. There are few, if any, reported foreign terrorist cell cases that even come close to the level of scariness that we're talking about with respect to these white supremacists.

I'm not saying that al-Qaeda isn't a threat. Of course it is. So are white supremacist crazies with cyanide bombs and an ideology that justifies their use.