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To: Sully- who wrote (61854)	8/8/2007 10:48:26 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Why Hasn’t This Made Headlines? Edward Morrissey HeadingRight Imagine, if you will, that two young Muslim men got arrested for carrying explosives in their car. Imagine that they got arrested within a few miles of a military base where terrorism detainees are being held. Imagine that their neighbors told reporters about deliveries of oxygen bottles with an unusual level of comings and goings for a couple of single men on their own. Now imagine why this hasn’t made more headlines: <<< When 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed and 21-year-old Yousef Megahed appeared in court, there was no question in the prosecutor’s mind what this was all about. She says Mohamed was in possession of pipe bombs and materials that could have been made to make more bombs. Sherri Jackson who was Megahed’s neighbor until March says FBI agents told her they were terrorists. … She says she saw lot of traffic, a lot of people going back and forth, oxygen tanks being delivered UPS and Fed Ex deliveries and a lot going on. Former FBI agent and terrorist expert Oscar Westerfield if they are terrorist the FBI must find out who is involved in this thing and how far does it go. Westerfield says much investigation has to be done, but he is concerned that the car was stopped with explosives 7 miles from a naval base that housed detainees, adding it doesn’t look good. >>> At a point in time where everyone knows that terrorist chatter has risen significantly, one might believe this should be a big story. These men had pipe bombs in the back of their car. The descriptions from the neighbors sound as though these two had used their residence in a similar manner as the 9/11 hijackers did — as a safe house. So where is the news coverage? Why haven’t the media given us the same breathless coverage they gave less-developed terror plots, such as in Miami last year? Two things have kept this more quiet than other stories. First, the clear involvement of Muslim foreigners has the media nervous. They do not want to be accused of fostering bigotry, and therefore they want to handle this with more detachment than they did with the Fort Dix Six. Second, they have treated the Bush administration’s warnings about terrorism with a great deal of skepticism — and this would tend to reinforce the White House’s perception (at least) that terrorism remains a real danger here, and not just provides a dodge for power grabs. We’ll need to keep a closer eye on this case as it develops. Don’t expect major coverage with theme music and fancy logos from the networks. headingright.com tampabays10.com