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Friday, September 20, 2002
 
Prior Knowledge

If you didn't see this article a week and a half ago about the New York City Muslims who had advanced knowledge of the terrorist attacks, you really should take a second and read it. This is apparently a story that most if not all of the major media outlets heard about but none chose to pursue. Only this one reporter did any serious investigating. What he found is scary. There were Muslim children who knew there was an attack coming. They knew what the targets were. And they knew when it would occur.

There is at least a kernel of good news in the report. If the kids knew, then someone must be talking. If these terror cells are talking terror with their children then perhaps infiltration by our agents is possible. We seem to have good network infiltration in Singapore and Southeast Asia where we have arrested a number of would-be terrorists on a few different occasions (here in January, here this week, here an in-depth look at the problem area (.pdf file) ) since the last round of attacks. Shouldn't we be able to infiltrate the Muslim communities in and around the boroughs of NYC?

The scariest thing of all in the article was the one child's admonition to avoid city buses. This is an avenue of terror that has been immensely popular by the Palestinians in their efforts to kill Jews. Even the hint that the idea is being considered in the United States is terrifying.