A quick memo for the benefit of the Dean Democrats: two of the top three Yahoo/AP headlines today are pretty gruesome reminders of the enemy we still face, domestically and abroad:
Yahoo! News - Alleged Missile Plot Uncovered in N.Y.
WASHINGTON - Two leaders of a mosque in Albany, N.Y., were arrested on charges stemming from an alleged plot to help a man they thought was a terrorist purchase a shoulder-fired missile, federal authorities said Thursday.The men have ties to a group called Ansar al-Islam, which has been linked to the al-Qaida terror network, according to two federal law enforcement authorities speaking on condition of anonymity.
The other story (attn Gov. Dean) is:
Yahoo! News - Suspect Confirmed Terror Threat, U.S. Says
The information from the third person was "another new stream of intelligence" that supported the White House decision to issue a terror warning on Sunday, the officials said.The information arrived days before the public alert, as officials were reviewing reams of recently obtained documents and photographs that showed surveillance of five buildings in New York City, New Jersey and Washington carried out years earlier by al-Qaida.
"Old information isn't irrelevant information --particularly with this kind of enemy," Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.