No Love Letters

An ominous threat was just delivered by some nefarious characters in some dark recess of the Middle East. People who are decent of any faith are conducting their daily lives mundanely just trying to make it into another day in many instances or even nobly in some cases trying to cure cancer or end hunger in this beleaguered world. Then there is a different mindset- a mentality that goes beyond the simply criminal and becomes as troubling as it is astonishing. Who spends their days and nights conceiving of a printer bomb, and then actually goes out to craft a couple? Who looks on the Internet or finds an old Chicago telephone directory to locate the addresses of two Jewish institutions it stands to reason have no connection whatsoever to Yemen (and probably have no members who have visited Yemen and few who could tell a listener anything about Yemen)? This is a very special case through a gift (the package bombs) from the frequently war-torn ancestral home of Osama bin Laden and now home to an American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki who has evidently become the source for ceaseless terror threats against the American homeland. Parcel bombs, printers rigged to explode, theses are gifts that keep on costing, from the enormous expense of flight and travel disruptions to the newly engendered need for enhanced security the new threat has caused, even without a single bomb actually exploding, the jihadists can claim a sense of victory. But thank God anyway that in this instance the plot seems to have been ferreted out and extinguished regardless of the cost.