WTF Is It Now?!?

" Farcical" terror plan
Or, How your government is trying to scare the bejesus out of you right in time for the midterm elections. Well, thank God some papers are reporting how completely fucked up this story is.

The plot sounded menacing: a group of home-grown terrorists with sinister code names seek help from al-Qaida to attack the tallest US building, the 103-story Sears Tower in Chicago. But as more details emerged of a supposed terror plot interrupted by US authorities, the plotters and their half-baked plan seem less than deadly and more than a little ridiculous.

The seven alleged plotters were mostly unemployed men from a poor suburb of Miami who had no weapons, explosives or money, and were so disorganised they asked their "al-Qaida" contact for uniforms and boots for their "Islamic army," and a camera to take pictures of their target.

Indictment of suspected "terrorists" contains little evidence of plot, brains
While Justice Department officials crowed and Dick Cheney sneered that the group was a "very real threat," others weren't buying it.

A close family friend and cousin of one of the defendants described the leader of the group, Narseal Batiste, as a "Moses-like figure" who would roam the streets in a cape or bathrobe, toting a crooked wooden cane and looking for young men to join his group.

"We're as puzzled as everyone else," said Howard Simon, the director of the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. "There's no weapons, no explosives, nothing but this major announcement."

Yeah. What - a - surprise. It's got Karl Rove stank all over it.