Looks fishy, this one. No doubt there are disaffected Muslims in the US. But the involvement of the agent provocateur will only stir up genuine trouble. Very clumsy, he's not supposed to be exposed, or the one giving evidence in court. So if a stranger tells you a Bush joke, don't smile, ring the cops. It could be a test of your loyalty.
I'm not sure how these people are more worrisome than the White supremacists/survivalists who have been polishing their guns in barracks in the woods of Washington, or in their compounds on the plains of the Bible Belt... Those guys have the means and training too. Arguably, there is a lot of copy-catting going on. People copy suicides and murders they see/hear of in soaps and real life. Why would some socially disenchanted subgroup with an inferiority complex not re-enact what they see/hear on the news? I wonder how much some of these groups of "terrorist wannabe's" are really any different from some students going postal in Columbine, or the Bath School bombing.
i am going to blow up the empire state building in the name of.....mickey mouse, now lets see if they come here and call me terrorist and demand my extradition. if terrorists were to create tons of terror that would be very easy, just spreed them out and give a date and na hour, at that date and hour hundreds of explosions would go of around the world, instant terrorism.