Granted, we haven't heard much about the home front in (cue theme music) The War on TerrorTM . I've assumed that was because there wasn't much, if anything, to hear -- and if someone had made a "good collar", as they say on the television crime dramas, it would be publicized in this manner anyway. "See, we told you curtailing your civil liberties was for your own good," never mind that the bust seems to result from good old-fashioned undercover police work.

The significant fact, i.m.o., is that it's taken almost 5 years to come up with something solid enough to take to the press, let alone to a grand jury.

What I suspect we have here is, at worst, a handful of Timothy McVeigh-types: not quite right in the head, and wicked dangerous because of it. More likely, a pathetic bunch of wannabes.

Remember the Symbionese Liberation Army?