Back to your regular programming: Dude accused of planned attack at Ft. Hood is a Muslim
"According to a law enforcement official, among the items found in Private Abdo’s room at the time of his arrest were a military uniform with Fort Hood patches, a pistol, shotgun shells and an article on 'how to make a bomb in your kitchen' from the English-language Qaeda magazine Inspire. He also had more than one wall clock, a cellphone, duct tape and a shopping list for what appeared to be explosive components, the official said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/us/29awol.html
How many of us have some of the above items at home right now?
"How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom" issue of al Quesadilla English language mag in the big hard drive pile with all the other internet ephemera: check.
More than one wall clock: check.
Cellphone: check.
Duct tape: check.
Shopping list in semi-decipherable handwriting: check.
The other stuff (minus the pistol and shotgun shells, which I believe many red-blooded Amurikuns possess -- I don't) is a little sketchy, to be sure. The child porn which he was previously charged with possessing is very bad, obviously.
It is not outside of the realm of possibility that a crazy/disgruntled/otherwise motivated person might actually put together the materials for a mass shooting. To do so is clearly a more realistic goal than piloting a jetliner at high speed into a relatively small target. It *could* be for real. It probably isn't.
In terms of our constant project of swimming against the mainstream historical narratives, however, isn't it interesting that within a week of the Great Norwegian Mind Fuck of 2011, someone has tried to switch our collective channel back to the Islamoterrorism Show?
Reading Pamela Geller...
the anti-Ground Zero-mosque lady is a bad habit I started last week when she and other Islamophobic bloggers had to slam on their rhetorical brakes and put it into reverse after a frenzy of certainty that the Norway events were Muslim-authored. She appears mighty relieved at this time, if you will but read between her lines:
"I anxiously await the same intense and extensive mainstream media coverage and obsession that we witnessed immediately after and in the ensuing days of the Norway massacre to determine the motivation behind this explosive plot at Fort Hood. I expect extremists Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper, the NY Times, LA Times, IHT, CNN, BBC, et al, to be just as rabidly obsessed and consumed with investigating what ideology incited this Muslim to recruit for jihad."
I don't know... could it have something to do with the apparent fact that the Norway events (the exact nature of which remains to be parsed) actually happened and were not, uhhh, prevented by someone who "saw something and said something"? While I think it very likely that Whitey Hatesson (a.k.a. Anders Breivik) is not what he appears -- and probably not a lone nut, either -- people were actually killed last week, may they rest in peace. That's different from finding duct tape and a shopping list.
any relation to Uri Geller?
Just wondering...