"Man" Accused of Plotting an Attack on U.S. Capitol

The Washington Post's current online homepage headline:

"Man accused of plotting to attack U.S. Capitol

An illegal immigrant from Northern Virginia was arrested blocks from the Capitol while carrying an inoperable MAC-10 automatic weapon and a fake suicide vest provided to him by undercover FBI agents posing as al-Qaeda associates, U.S. officials said."

An illegal immigrant was behind this sordid business? Perhaps a frustrated farm worker from Mexico? Of course not. Clicking on the headline, you then read the story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/federal-agents-arrest-man-who-allegedly-planned-suicide-bombing-on-us-capitol/2012/02/17/gIQAtYZ7JR_story.html?hpid=z1) and learn:

"Federal authorities on Friday arrested a 29-year-old Moroccan man in an alleged plot to carry out a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol, the latest in a series of terrorism-related arrests resulting from undercover sting operations.

For more than a year, Amine El Khalifi, of Alexandria, considered attacking targets including a synagogue, an Alexandria building with military offices and a Washington restaurant frequented by military officials, authorities said. When arrested a few blocks from the Capitol around lunchtime on Friday, he was carrying what he believed to be a loaded automatic weapon and a suicide vest ready for detonation."

Oh, so he was not from Mexico, but rather from Morocco. Do a word search of the story using "radical," "Islam" and "Muslim." As might be expected, your search will come up blank.

Now go to the New York Time's online home page. Buried half way down the page under "More News," you will find a link to the story entitled "F.B.I. Arrests Man in Suspected Capitol Bomb Plot". Interesting to note that The New York Times determined that a bomb plot against the US Capitol was barely newsworthy. Also, in their description of the story is a meager reference to a "man."

Both these newspapers are unwilling to contend with the threat posed to the US by radical Islam. Moreover, although this particular occurrence involved an alleged unsophisticated would-be perpetrator, there is nothing unsophisticated about Iranian and Hezbollah terror operations, which will not rely upon planted weapons and explosives rendered inoperable by the FBI.