And Quite A Catch, He Is

CNN:

An Afghan-born Colorado man charged with plotting to make bombs from household chemicals made several recent purchases from beauty supply stores in suburban Denver, telling workers he had “a lot of girlfriends,” employees said Thursday.

Najibullah Zazi, now charged with plotting to set off “weapons of mass destruction” in the United States was “a regular” at the Beauty Supply Warehouse in Aurora, Colorado, one store worker said…

With his and others’ arrests, and another’s in another planned attack, it seems decidedly likely that many who otherwise would have been murdered in the near future, won’t be; and none of them, or their families, will, of course, ever know that.  A building that might have been bombed and become infamous won’t have been.  And perhaps a subway line that would have become etched in memories as a grave and a terror attack site, won’t be.

And we won’t have to endure another crop of sitcom actors intellectuals sharing with us irrefutable evidence as to how Joe Biden was behind it all.  Also, we may now watch another alternate reality unfold: what would have ensued beginning September 11, 2001, had the FBI managed to crack the 9/11 plot and raided the planes and arrested those Islamic extremists* just before the take-offs.

We will hear of the big misunderstandings, or how they just meant to “scare.”  Islamic extremists* murder untold numbers  (most of them other Muslims) globally, but somehow never caught beforehand are any engaged in the planning stages.  Only scooped up are wedding planners/ computer students/ bookstore owners/ water supply charity workers/ young men seeking to find themselves while visiting Taliban Afghanistan in 2001 . . .

[*NOTE: If the phrase "Islamic terrorists" is not considered acceptable, in the minefield of terminology we must inhabit the above is evidently increasingly deemed an acceptable one.  At least according to the BBC.  That despite the fact that it may seem a bit unfair, for one may be an "extremist" without looking to engage in mass murder.]

[Posted 9 AM NY time.]