Terrorists Arrested in the U.S.
“By a four-to-one margin (48 percent to 12 percent), Americans think the war in Iraq has made the threat of terrorism against the United States worse rather than better,” says a CBS News Poll.
Why? Maybe because terrorists are still trying to kill Americans on US soil. Here are just a few terrorists that have been arrested since 9/11:
Dirty Bomb
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In October, 2004, the FBI arrested Demetrius Crocker in Tennessee. He was caught on tape fantasizing about detonating a dirty bomb at the U.S. Capitol.
The 40-year-old white supremacist tried to purchase Sarin nerve gas ingredients and C-4 exposives from undercover agents. On November 28, Crocker got thirty years in prison. |
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Sodium Cyanide Gas
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William Krar was arrested in 2002 in east Texas. Krar, also a white supremacist, sent a package full of fake DOD and United Nation IDs to a militia member in New Jersey.
Fortunately, the package was misdelivered to a New York family who opened it and said, WTF? They called the FBI, who found enough sodium cyanide in Krar’s posession to gas a packed high-school gymnasium. |
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Krar also had nine machine guns, 67 sticks of explosives, and 100K rounds of ammo. He got 11 years in prison.
Arab on Family Vacation
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In 2002, software engineer Maher Arar was returning from a family vacation in Tunisia. Although he was a Canadian citizen, Arar was detained by US authorities in New York’s JFK airport, then deported to Syria.
In Syria, he was regularly tortured until his release over a year later. |
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Unlike the first two terrorists, it was later confirmed that Maher had no link to any terrorist activity whatsoever. He was finally allowed to return to his wife and children in Canada.
Racial Profiling
In the argument to use racial profiling in the war against terrorism, it must be noted that when the real evidence is tallied, it may be white male bigots—not Arabic Muslims—who have to get strip searched and questioned at the airport.
Invasion?
It’s yet unknown whether President Bush will give the nod to bomb and invade Texas and Tennessee. Both states have failed to crack down on the training of extremists and, as this article points out, both have produced their fair share of terrorists.
And in the War on Terror, if you’re not with us, you’re against us.
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