Friday, December 08, 2006

Attack Thwarted

Check this bit out from DRUDGE:
CHRISTMAS MALL TERROR ATTACK THWARTED: A 22-year-old Chicago man, Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef, has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a Rockford, Ill. mall during the holiday season. The suspect is accused of planning to set off 4 hand grenades at the CherryVale shopping mall. The suspect is described as an unaffiliated 'lone wolf-style terrorist' who wanted to commit 'violent jihad'.
I saw the AP News Alert for this about an hour ago...needless to say, all it said was somebody was arrested for wanting to throw grenades...as if that was the whole story. Anybody care to hazard a guess how it would have been portrayed if the perp was one of Axis Sully's Christianists? Can't we just get the story without all the PC nonsense? I thought the idea behind journalism was to objectively report the news...

Get the story from the locals here...

Rockford, IL, by the way, is the home of my beloved Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps...