15th Major NYC Attack Since 9/11 Thwarted

[Asher]

Wow. Just wow. It was a rhetorical comment directed at the guys who stopped him, not the Poly posters.

A reasonable thing to do, as Poly posters do not read your comments but the FBI does.

[Asher]

dp

[The Mad Monk]

Rhetorical.

Rhetorical.

[DaShi]

Mitt Romney is upset that no one was killed. Though he'll never say this publicly, right HC?

[Kidlicious]

...lemme try and follow you on this. This guy, and the umpteen other "terrorists" we've seen foiled in the exact same manner in the decade since 9/11, are ready and willing to blow us all to hell, but lack the equipment. So we get in touch with them in some manner I'll assume doesn't constitute entrapment, and give them fake bombs before setting them up on Candid Killer Camera. The end. Is that the shape of it?

Why do all the people who want to blow stuff up get in touch with law enforcement agencies? If there aren't any actual criminal organizations waiting around to provide these nutters with genuine munitions, they're basically harmless unless they get really frustrated and just shoot some place up because they can't get any explosives. If there are such people, that raises a whole bunch of stumper questions: why are they so incapable of finding people to use their fine High Explosive products? If they are of the Islamic persuasion as well, why don't they use their own damned bombs? And why aren't our law enforcement officials going after them?

There's a bunch of terrorists in sleeper cells. They are waiting to be contacted to comit a terrorist act. The authorities must have found out who they are and pretended to be those who would give them orders.

[DinoDoc]

Rhetorical.

Rhetorical.

Do you seriously care about Asher's harping on that point?

[DaShi]

Irony

[Dinner]

The Fort Hood shooter tried to get in contact with jihad organizations but they thought he was too much of a loser or something, that or a plant.

Ahhh, even the jihadis wouldn't take him. Oh, well... At least the FBI isn't so choosy.

[giblets]

Yes Asher. A terrorist attack is deftly thwarted, and so they've won. I wish we could go back to the days before 9/11 when this could have actually succeeded and killed people.

I would rather not return to the Bush administration.

[Hauldren Collider]

Ahhh, even the jihadis wouldn't take him. Oh, well... At least the FBI isn't so choosy.

Well, actually, it seems they were since he actually shot a bunch of people.

[Aeson]

Well done FBI/NYPD

There might be better uses of these prospective terrorists though. We could take all these contestants and set up an obstacle course like "Wipeout", only without padding and with sharks. The prize is a van full of "fertilizer" and "diesel". (When they get in the van, Vin Diesel is there to kick their ass. Then once Vin Diesel is finished and exits the vehicle, it's pumped full of cow manure.)

Make it pay per view.

[regexcellent]

Solve the deficit

...Then again, government television programming

Solution: do it with private contractors!

[Uncle Sparky]

I agree with Elok on this one.

Give me a credit card, a DIY centre, and a rental van and I could take out a bridge/subway/medium sized building. WTF is wrong with these 'terrorists'? Don't they have "internet"? Are they too proud to use tried and true American methods? Do they even know who Timothy McVeigh is?
I suspect the FBI simply troll for angry young muslims, offer them the means, and then arrest them as terrorists. Freakin' brilliant! Look at all the terrorists we're stopping! Increase our funding!

[regexcellent]

Anyone who passed a college chemistry course could probably build a satisfactory explosive device. Isn't nitroglycerin an intermediate for crystal meth?

[Hauldren Collider]

The problem is that these people aren't loners. They're seeking validation for what they do. It's rare for someone to act on this alone. In order to do this you need to see it as heroic, and that's not a conclusion people often come to without guidance.