Fear Factor

[theknife]

among the Bushie's repertoire of scary stories to tell the population, in order to sell the "war on terror", was the myth of "sleeper cells" - groups of terrorists burrowed deep into American society, ready to rise up at a momen'ts notice and commit attrocities against unsuspecting population centers here in the US. as it turns out, like so much else we have been told in the last four years, this is bullshit:

for all the worry about Osama bin Laden's sleeper cells or agents in the United States, a secret FBI assessment concludes it knows of none.

The 32-page assessment says flatly, "To date, we have not identified any true 'sleeper' agents in the US," seemingly contradicting the "sleeper cell" description prosecutors assigned to seven men in Lackawanna, N.Y., in 2002.

Ashcroft, in particular, used this one to sell the Patriot Act to Congress and the public.

It also differs from testimony given by FBI Director Robert Mueller, who warned in the past that several sleeper cells were probably in place.

"Our greatest threat is from al Qaeda cells in the United States that we have not yet been able to identify," Mueller said at a Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing in February 2003. "Finding and rooting out al Qaeda members once they have entered the United States and have had time to establish themselves is our most serious intelligence and law enforcement challenge."

yet another bogeyman that isn't there. let's bring out the next one:

And the report suggests that instead of actual sleeper agents, lying in wait, al Qaeda may rely on disaffected Americans or other sympathizers, who might pick easier, softer targets such as shopping malls.

and the moon might be a wheel of Camembert.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigat...=566425&page=3