Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon

garymortimer writes "A 26-year-old Massachusetts man with a physics degree was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting an attack on the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with remote-controlled model aircraft, authorities said. Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen from Ashland, Massachusetts, planned to use model aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives. As a result of an undercover FBI investigation, Ferdaus, who has a physics degree from Northeastern University in Boston, was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda for attacks on U.S. soldiers overseas. His federal public defender couldn't be reached immediately for comment."

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[PopeRatzo]

A clear triumph for America's powers of cultural assimilation! While our barbaric foreign enemies carry out suicide attacks

You may not have noticed, but suicide attacks have not been occurring the US in the last decade. Either Al Qaeda has changed their minds or something the government is doing is working.

I remember hearing big-name Republican candidates and pundits telling us that there would be a 9/11 ever few months if Obama got elected. Strange how it has seemed to work out.

I don't know, I travel a lot and the scanner and occasional patdown (I've had one pat-down in more than 20 flights) don't bother me as much as the fat-ass sitting in the seat next to me eating pork rinds and passing wind. Sure, it's all theater, but I have a high opinion of theater. Shakespeare is theater. Ibsen. Beckett. F-35s, green berets and stealth bombers are theater too, but I don't hear the same criticism leveled against them.

Fuck if airport security doesn't seem to become onerous when there's a black guy in the White House. Who wants to bet that if Mitt Romney becomes president, the horrors of airport security will cease to become a meme?