I don't know if these guys are guilty or not, and it's kind of beside the point.

What has been proven is that a real terrorist cell in America will be able to act with impunity. If caught, they will be able to play our legal system and the natural anti-American bias of the media like a fiddle.

Short of actually photographing one of these guys pushing a TNT plunger down, I'm not sure what would be required to prove anything.

Face it. We're just going to have to take the hits--the bombings, the gas attacks, the sabotage--and hope we can catch the guys afterward.

After the Florida fiasco that wound up with the tipster in the hospital, and the way the Lackawanna case is turning out, who the heck is going to bother to tip the FBI anymore? And what does the FBI have to gain by following up on the tip? The authorities have been getting nothing but crap for trying to connect the dots. After being pummelled for failing to connect them before 9-11. A no-win situation.