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Early reports on the arrest of two Chicagoans yesterday on charges of conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas seem to indicate that unbenownst to them they'd been working with a Gulf War veteran and paid FBI informer known as The Trainer. It's not clear, though, what if any credible steps they'd taken toward this goal. More on the question of whether or not intent alone is enough in the war on terror in this absorbing dispatch from the Atlantic.
Also yesterday and also on the topic of whether intent can be criminal, terror charges were leveled in court against Daniel Maldonado, an American convert to Islam who the government says took his family on jihad to Somalia where he was trained in weapons and bomb making by Al Qaeda, and who was arrested in Kenya last month. Maldonado's public defender claims he trained not with Al Qaeda, but with “a hodgepodge of mujahadeen groups,” and that Maldonado “watched some old man [make bombs], but merely watching someone do something is not conspiring with someone to do it.”
In New York, a catalog of the 15 major terror plots targeting the city since 1993—more than one a year.
I have a more personal than policy oriented essay to do with 9/11 symbolism and substance and my experience as a first responder over in the New York Observer.
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