Federal officials have arrested terror suspect,Hosan Maher Husein Smadi, in Dallas, Texas. In the country illegally, Smadi had been living in the Dallas area for some time. They say he was planning to bomb a local skyscraper and that he had previously tried to set off a vehicle-based explosive at the base of the 60-story Fountain Place tower.
Authorities claim that they have been watching Smadi for some time, following his violent posts on the extremist chat sites. Articles we've been watching claim that officials did have court affidavits to spy on Smadi, but no information have been released on what information they presented to court in order to get the affidavits.
What we are curious about is if this has happened at all, or if the government is hoping to continue ramping up fears so that we all walk a little more closely in line. After all, remember Tom Ridge, previous Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge, admits that he raised the terror alert for political reasons. He claims that George W. Bush pressured him to raise the "terror alert" level to influence the November 2004 US election.
Now that we know this, the powers-that-be know that it will take more than them just changing the national alert level to get us to sign away more rights and ignore what is happening on the world scene.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/25/texas.terror.arrest/index.html
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