From New American Media, an Expose on the Would-Be Chicago Bomber

New American Media reports:

CHICAGO—A Lebanese citizen with U.S. residency was arrested by federal authorities Monday in what is being described as a bizarre attempt to influence the city’s politics through violence and terrorism.

The suspect, Sami Samir Hassoun, 22, who lives in Little Arabia on Chicago’s Northwest side, alleged placed what he believed to be a remote-controlled detonation bomb in a backpack in a garbage can at a busy intersection of nightclubs near Wrigley Field (Cubs Park), one of the city’s two baseball stadiums.

Hassoun had also considered other bombing targets including the Sears (Willis) Tower, poisoning the city’s water system and trying to assassinate Chicago’s mayor, Richard M. Daley, according to information released by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office.

 This paper fails to mention that he was trying to wage Jihad. Taken from Atlasshrugs.com:

"HASSOUN,  according to a law enforcement source close to this author, is a “devout Muslim and permanent legal resident from Lebanon.” He appeared on the radar screen of federal authorities in early June, when he solicited assistance and advice from associates to “wage jihad on the streets of America.”

 Let's continue in the NAM article:

But Hassoun’s downfall apparently was also the result of his friendship with an American Arab who was secretly working as an undercover source for the FBI. The unnamed individual contacted the FBI last year after Hassoun told him of his intentions. FBI involvement helped insure that instead of placing a real bomb in the backpack, a non-explosive device was used instead.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Grant and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said Hassoun told the FBI informant he was upset with Mayor Daley and Chicago politics. He said he felt the city did not have enough security and he wanted to teach Daley a lesson.

Daley, who is on a business mission to China, and the city have come under criticism in recent months by activists angry over Chicago’s relationship with Israel.

Hassoun told the source in Arabic that he wanted to “make a statement” without hurting anyone. But his intentions allegedly changed. The source contacted the FBI, and Hassoun was then introduced to two Arabic-speaking professionals, also believed to be undercover FBI agents of American-Arab heritage, who told him they, too, wanted to commit an act of violence in the United States.

 See how the paper is trying to make this seem racial? Religion isn't mentioned once in this article. Not only that, was Hassoun part of a security firm. This whole piece is trash. Let's pick it apart.
1) The article only mentions Lebanese citizen who made contact with an American Arab.
2) Where does the idea of security come in line with killing Mayor Daley? If you are trying to send a message, do you kill the recipient?
3) And the paper somehow sticks Israel into the mess. Don't ask me how. It doesn't make sense to me either.
4) "He wanted to make a statement without hurting anyone"...it doesn't say "originally", it says "he wanted to make a statement without hurting anyone". Can we have his original ideas please?
5) "Hassoun told the source in Arabic that he wanted to “make a statement” without hurting anyone. But his intentions allegedly changed." What! Allegedly???!!! He tried to blow up a busy intersection by Wrigley Field!
I cannot continue. Read it yourself here. but I would like to add that the article ends with a disclaimer:

Community leaders said that in the event that the terrorist act had occurred, victims would likely have included American Arabs and Muslims.

So they want you to know that Muslims would have been part of those victims, so it couldn't have been done in the name of Islam.

Telegraph of UK Writes Twisted Logic

I was getting ready to log off when this headline caught my eye:

In the Middle East, murder is sometimes a reason for hope

Wow! That one is new! One of the lowest acts that a human could do is a reason for hope! Let's see what the author, Mr. Richard Spencer, has to say:

I have never been much of an optimist over the Middle East peace talks. Apart from the transient appearance of an accord in 1993, most rounds of negotiation seem to have been mere shows, undertaken for short-term political gains by one or other of the parties (including the Americans).

The Camp David discussions in the dying days of the Clinton presidency are the exception that proves the rule. Ehud Barak was unable to come up with concessions that the Palestinians could accept, for various reasons, some valid, some less so. And it is hard to see how any of Barak’s successors, least of all Benjamin Netanyahu, was ever, or is now, going to go even as far as he did. A negotiation that – so Mr Netanyahu says – cannot address the fate of East Jerusalem and must accept Israel as an entity solely defined by an ethnicity not shared by all its citizens is limited in its prospects.

 Alright, so a lot of fluff and gander, that meant absolutely nothing, takes up the first two paragraphs. But it's the third that shows how deluded this man, who is hailed as one of the Telegraph's correspondent to the Middle East, is.

Events of this week have, however, made me strangely more optimistic. There was something so brutal, even for Hamas, about its assassination of four civilian settlers, and more particularly the glee with which it claimed responsibility, that I wondered if it wasn’t seriously rattled.

 Really, so brutal about killing 4 civilians tha hamas is rattled? He obviously never saw the result of a suicide bombing, which attacks more than just 4 unarmed civilians, or for that matter, an earlier shooting of civilians or axing of civilians by those Arabs living in Israel. Not to mention, the lynching of, lost, off duty. reserve soldiers by the PA in 2000, where the soldiers' entrails were dragged through the streets; and the PA is the moderate government.

Also, when does glee ever go with seriously rattled?

He then continues to blah and blah. You can read it all here if you wish (I recommend you sit when you do.)

Thankfully the comments weren't as moronic (at least not at this time.):

Utter nonsense. Hamas is not "seriously rattled" at all. It is its standard operating practice to kill Israeli civilians at all times, and especially when peace talks are taking place. When Israel began its withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas committed several acts of vicious murder, the most heinous being the slaughter of Tali Hatuel - 9 months pregnant like this week's victim - and her 4 children by shooting them all dead at point blank range in their car. Hamas were not "serious rattled" then - indeed they were trying to promote a portrait of their victory, that it was their actions that had driven Israel out - and they are not "seriously rattled" now. 

The only thing that will seriously rattle Hamas is Israeli housing construction, especially in Judea and Samaria, which is why the construction freeze must end.

 Kudos, my dear sir, kudos.