It made for good TV In Miami

World Peace Herald — Here’s an excellent rundown of the situation with the 7 alleged terrorists in Flroida who were going to wage a “ground war” against the USA. Quite pathetic in a lot of ways.

The leader of the Liberty City gang, Narseal “Prince Marina” Batiste, 32, is the man who established contact with the FBI informant who convinced him he was the real McCoy from al-Qaida. After that, it does not take an overwhelming effort of imagination to see how the others were mightily impressed and swore “bayat,” or an oath of loyalty to the al-Qaida operative, and then hatched plans to form an Islamic army in Liberty City that would unleash a full ground war against American targets, including Chicago’s 110-story Sears Tower, America’s tallest building, and the world’s third tallest, and Miami’s federal building (where the FBI is located).

The wannabe bush league terrorists — five U.S. citizens, one legal Haitian and one Haitian illegal — told their new al-Qaida leader they needed boots, uniforms, guns, radios, vehicles and $50,000.

To prove his al-Qaida bona fides, the FBI informant supplied the seven with five pairs of army boots, a small digital camera, a cell phone, $3,500 sans explosives or weapons. That should have raised the alarm among the seven that their al-Qaida guru didn’t swing much weight among his superiors. But they soldiered on for “Allah” until their arrest last week.

Mercifully, the FBI’s Deputy Director John Pistole conceded the pseudo-al-Qaida gang’s plans were “more inspirational than operational.” Without the FBI informant, it would have been more fantasy than inspiration. If counter-terrorism operations are to include all those fantasizing about doing harm to America, several new prisons will have to be built.