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Dallas:

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Lots of terror in the news all of a sudden...This is the one that everyone is talking about. A 24 year old Aghan-born man named Najibullah Zazi , in an apparent attempt to make bombs, purchased a suspiciously large amount of acetone and a product containing hydrogen peroxide. Also see here and here . He appears to have co-conspirators.In an unrelated case, 21 year old Betim Kaziu has been charged with being an al Qaeda militant.A 19 year old Jordanian named Hosam Maher Husein Smadi "who entered the United States illegally" discussed in an online forum a plot to blow up the Fountain Place skyscraper in Dallas. He bought what he thought was a bomb from an undercover agent and tried to set it off with a cell phone detonator. Questions: How does a young Jordanian get into this country illegallydays? And how did he get the money for the bomb?29 year old Michael Finton , who uses the name Talib Islam, came to the attention of authorities when he contacted John Walker Lindh. After meeting an undercover FBI agent posing as an al Qaeda operative, he was supplied with a ton of explosives, which he tried to detonate in front of the Federal Building in Springfield. The explosives were inactive; he was arrested. Daniel Patrick Boyd , his son and one Hysen Sherifi are charged with conspiracy to blow up the Marine Corps base in Quantico.A man named Belal Khazal has been jailed for writing a terrorist how-to-do-it manual.The State Department warns that al Qaeda plans to attack Germany on or around September 27, the date of the new elections.Homeland Security officials have sent out a special advisory to all local police to look out for any suspicious activity around hotels, transportation centers, and self-storage facilities.I have given brief rundowns of events that are surely more complex than would appear at first glance. Right now, I simply want to take note of the overall pattern.Something seems to be up, eh wot?I must confess that Obama deserves congratulations: He has not tried to make political use of these incidents.