Terrorists Who Suck in New Jersey

I just had a friend come back from training at Ft. Dix, NJ so the story that Drudge linked to about the plot to infiltrate the base and blow things up caught my eye. The blog comments complained that there were a number of omissions in the ABC story so I decided to see what other coverage was out there. Here are some of the omitted facts and who decided that you didn’t need to know them.

NBC – NBC broke the story and the original story is still linked through the updated version. It looks like they tried to be the first to get it out there so much can be excused. They did identify the sucky terrorists as Islamic radicals but missed that three of them were illegal. Updated story now leads with this.

ABCNews – No mention that the men were all Islamic radicals. The story’s last sentence quoted one arrested as saying that he was, “…doing this in the name of Allah.” There was no also mention that three of the terrorist wannabes were living here illegally. [I guess only Mexican illegals matter to ABC]

CBSNews – Seems to have gotten it right. Although the boilerplate story now ends with a call not to associate Islam with militancy from a muslim source. Where there is smoke there is fire…

FOXNews – It looks like everyone is rewording the wire reports and the articles all say basically the same thing. Fox does something a little different in that it doesn’t identify the men as militants, just as Muslims. Oversight?

I didn’t bother with CNN’s reporting because they were two hours later than everyone else. It’s easy to get things right (maybe not at CNN or ABC) with the perspective of time.