Miami Haitian Ninja Terrorists
Mustang Bobby notes the Miami raid that netted a half dozen unemployed Haitians living in a warehouse in Liberty City that they guarded while dressed like ninjas.
CNN and the BBC carry straight reporting, but the claims that these guys were “planning” to attack the Sears Tower in Chicago is over the top. Even the FBI admits that it was an “aspiration” rather than as serious threat. [Jose Padilla, who was going to build a “dirty bomb”, is charged with something like loitering and disturbing the peace.]
The “al Qaeda connection” is a Federal informant who told the MHNT that he was with al Qaeda.
Pretty much nothing was found in their “secret hideout”, cleverly disguised as a warehouse with a couple of guys in ninja uniforms outside to make it inconspicuous.
We have mental health laws to deal with these kinds of people. Anyone who can’t buy machine guns and plastic explosives in Miami isn’t really dedicated to their revolution. There would be a huge mark-up because they are Haitians rather than Cubans, but a deal could be made.
If they had started when Aristide was still in Haiti, the US would have just supplied the stuff. All they had to say was they were going to help push the socialists out of Haiti.
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Cue the theme music from Hal Roach’s “Our Gang”…..
Hmmm… So, what’s happening at the White House these days that they have to pull this sort of a PR stunt?
Well, they definitely needed to be in somebody’s custody, because Liberty City is not the place to set up a “cult” unless you are several bricks short of a load, but they were more of a danger to themselves. If they didn’t have weapons it was only because everyone knew they were too crazy to sell guns to, which is pretty far gone in Miami.
The White House was really reaching to try to spin this as a terrorist cell. The lack of terrorists is really making the “GWOT” look rather silly, especially with the Canadians arresting terrorists.