AGAIN – AT 10:18 A.M. ET:  Once again the imperialist American authorities, reflecting the evil legacy of BUSH (!!) have put upon some sweet innocents merely trying to explore their culture:

NEWARK — Two New Jersey men intent on killing American troops were arrested Saturday as they boarded flights to link up with a virulent jihadist group in Somalia, authorities said.

The men, both North Jersey residents, were charged with conspiring to commit an act of international terrorism through a group tied to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network, according to officials familiar with the details of the arrests.

Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo "Omar" Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park were apprehended at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens before they could board separate flights to Egypt, where they were to start journeys to Somalia. The men were arrested by teams of state and federal law-enforcement agents who have been investigating the pair since October 2006, according to the officials, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the operation publicly.

Late Saturday night, the state homeland security agency confirmed a police action at the airport but gave few details.

And...

...investigators believe Alessa and Almonte were recruited by others, who are also now coming under scrutiny. "We hope this will lead to a spider web of arrests," said one official briefed on the case.

COMMENT:   An excellent, superbly reported piece from NJ.com, which actually did some historical research.  I can barely find the story in the more "established" news organs. 

How many incidents can we now count since Barack Hussein Obama Jr. took office?  I can't recall, but there seems to be one a month.  But at least, as the philosopher and deep thinker Paul McCartney says, Obama knows what a library is.

We have been lucky so far, at least in most terrorist cases.  Our luck will run out.

June 6, 2010