Authorities have arrested a man suspected of attempting to bring weapons into the U.S. capable of bringing down an airplane.
Aug. 12 — A British national was arrested this morning on suspicion of being involved in a plot to smuggle a surface-to-air missile into the United States, ABCNEWS has learned.The man was arrested in Newark, N.J., as part of an international sting conducted by the FBI, British and Russian authorities. The sting began five months ago in Moscow, law enforcement sources said.
The man arrested allegedly sought to smuggle a Russian-made surface-to-air missile into the country, and he believed he was selling the missile to would-be terrorists, sources said. The terrorists were really undercover agents. The name of the person has not been disclosed.
The man, of Indian descent, thought he was dealing with terrorists in the United States who wanted to shoot down a passenger jet, sources said.
While the arrest of this man is a good thing, it is a reminder to me that we can not treat terrorists as isolated criminals. Our government should actively pursue to foil terrorist plots and arrest terrorist cells operating in our country, but their primary means of eliminating terrorism should be the elimination of the primary means of support for these terrorists. The terrorist groups which threaten our country receive a lot of their money, weapons, supplies, and safe-havens from other governments. Our government must investigate and identify these governments for the terrorist-supporters that they are and eliminate them. By eliminating the primary base of support for terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda, we will greatly reduce the terrorists’ ability to engage in attacks against our country.
But as of now it seems that the current policy of our government is to merely treat these terrorist groups as isolated criminals, which will greatly help their ability to continue to attack our country. Also, our government has even begun to negotiate with terrorist groups, which will only embolden our enemies (see my posts, “Israel is Comitting Suicide” and “The Consequences of Advocating Israel’s Suicide").
What we need to eliminate the terrorist threat against our country is not the arrest of a few isolated individuals but rather ruthlessly eliminating all of the terrorist organizations which threaten us and the governments that support them.
