From today’s NY Times:
Four men were arrested Wednesday night in what the authorities said was a plot to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military planes at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y.
The men, all of whom live in Newburgh, about 60 miles north of New York City, were arrested around 9 p.m. after planting what they believed to be bombs in cars outside the Riverdale Temple and the nearby Riverdale Jewish Center, officials said. But the men did not know the bombs, obtained with the help of an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were fake.
The arrests capped what officials described as a “painstaking investigation” that began in June 2008 involving an F.B.I. agent who had been told by a federal informant of the men’s desire to attack targets in America. As part of the plot, the men intended to fire Stinger missiles at military aircraft at the base, which is at Stewart International Airport, officials said.
I don’t know what the plans are for these vicious jihadi terrorists, but I stand with Harry Reid in proclaiming from the rooftops that it is UNACCEPTABLE to house them in the US prison system. Who knows what kind of catalyst for heinous evil they will become in the swirling cauldron of darkness that is our penal system. No good and decent American should have to live within sight of these pieces of human refuse. If the authorities insist on incarcerating these satanic maniacs, the only reasonable thing for us to do is to eliminate all funding for state and federal prison systems and force other nation’s to take these prisoners off our hands. After all, we’re Americans. We’ve already done so much for the world; the least they could do is take away our burden of criminal masterminds.