to the extent I find myself able to take amusement in anything of late, I took cheer in an item in today's newspaper. It seems the FBI now has in custody a famed terrorist holding dual French/Algerian citizenship, a known comrade of bin Laden. How did they find this guy who'd eluded the French for years? He was going to flight school in Minnesota, where last month the instructors grew suspicious and tipped the feds because he wasn't an accomplished pilot but insisted he wanted to learn only how to steer passenger jets. He had no interest at all in takeoffs and landings.
For some reason this struck me as funny. It's like the Coneheads trying to fit into American life in the old Dan Ackroyd movie. I hope this guy is representative of the other sleeper agents in the U.S. I hope they're all equally convinced that we're stupid and they're invisible because God is on their side, and that they keep paying their way here with big wads of cash. It will make them easier to find. I'm told some of them have chemical/biologic weapons and probably surface-to-air missiles. While that's very scary, I take some comfort in my suspicion that many of those willing to commit suicide in a jihad are so fundamentally deranged as to stick out in our culture in ways they simply can't imagine.
For some reason this struck me as funny. It's like the Coneheads trying to fit into American life in the old Dan Ackroyd movie. I hope this guy is representative of the other sleeper agents in the U.S. I hope they're all equally convinced that we're stupid and they're invisible because God is on their side, and that they keep paying their way here with big wads of cash. It will make them easier to find. I'm told some of them have chemical/biologic weapons and probably surface-to-air missiles. While that's very scary, I take some comfort in my suspicion that many of those willing to commit suicide in a jihad are so fundamentally deranged as to stick out in our culture in ways they simply can't imagine.
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