The Washington Times reported on December 6:

Report: Hamas talks with U.S. Democrats
Dec. 6, 2006 at 5:38PM
Hamas officials have smuggled more than $66 million into Gaza and have met with U.S. Democrats at a secret location, it was reported Wednesday….

A few commentators have suggested over the years that the only solution to the problems of the Mideast is for Islam to undergo a Reformation, much like the Christians in the early 16th century. Christianity before the Protestant Reformation was rife w…

And it seems that the jihadist who was arrested planned the attack using hand grenades that he could detonate in garbage cans. From CBS2 Chicago (via Hot Air):

Investor’s Business Daily raises the question whether America is really the same nation it used to be when it comes to its own self-defense in Go Right Ahead — Tread on Us. Here’s an excerpt:When a secretary of defense gets confirmed 95-2 apparently b…

Score another one for the feds. Whew.
Plenty more links and reporting via Michelle Malkin.
I’m skimming the blogs for more reactions on this, and I feel confident that I’ll come across a few liberal ones who will say this foiled plot is &#…

Andrew Cochran of the Counterterrorism Blog weighs in on the Chicago mall grenade bomber who was nabbed, includes details and notes that Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, another blog contributor, has written on and predicted this sort of behavior. Michelle Mal…

And folks are going out of their way not to note a tiny little detail about the so-called “lone-wolf terrorist”. A man was arrested Friday by federal agents on charges of planning to set off hand grenades in garbage cans…

Six months ago, the FBI took down a ring of wannabe jihadis with large aspirations for terrorism and small mental capacities to conduct it. Apparently, they discovered another benighted aspirant to radical Islam in the person of Derrick Shareef, whose…

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…and just in time for Christmas. This time, a wannabe jihadist had plans to use a gun and grenades at the CherryVale mall in Rockford, Illinois. Michelle Malkin has full details. I wonder when CAIR will register their outrage of…

If you had any doubt that the forces of reason will have their hands full when they take control of Congress next year, please listen to the voices of the right wing blogosphere. It is really scary to look into

In a not-so-predictable prognostication, I made note earlier this week of the southern white Christian farmer who was sentenced for trying to blow up Congress. Nary a mention in the nation’s major papers, much less the rightosphere’s bloviating pages. …

An Illinois man has been arrested and charged for planning a terrorist attack on a Rockford, IL shopping mall:
A 22-year-old Rockford man appeared in federal court in Chicago today, charged with plotting to set off hand grenades in a terror attack at …

It was only a matter of time….
“A Muslim convert who talked about his desire to wage jihad against civilians was charged Friday in a plot to set off hand grenades at a shopping mall during the Christmas rush, authorities said.
Investigators…

I was holding off on this, but I just saw this story on Drudge. And while it doesn’t appear that the alleged plot was a serious and imminent threat, it seems that the attack was ideologically motivated. A suspect has…