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NBC's Mark Potter followed up on the narcotraffickers' turf wars in Mexico by riding the streets of Juarez with an outgunned police force. Disappointingly, he did little to move the story forward, however, contenting himself with the obvious observation that Juarez-El Paso is a "lucrative smuggling route" because of its network of highways and railroads. He warned that Laredo, McAllen and Brownsville were heating up, too.
CBS' Jan Crawford concentrated on a much smaller threat: the handful of American Moslems who are suspected of signing up for jihadist terrorism. She ticked off the plots--and alleged plots--in which US citizens have been implicated: a plan to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist, the attack on luxury hotels in Mumbai, a bungled bid to bomb New York City subways, the shooting spree at Fort Hood by an army psychiatrist. She added a New Jersey man under arrest in Yemen and five DC-area students held in Pakistan--but did not tell us what plots they are accused of.
Unidentified "national security experts" told Crawford, vaguely, that "the Internet is emerging as a key recruiting tool." Of course, one could start any sentence with the phrase The Internet is emerging as… and complete it with innumerable examples, positive, negative and unimaginable. On ABC, Pierre Thomas did not try to make a trend of just a couple of cases. Colleen LaRose, whose nom d'Internet is Jihad Jane, pled not guilty to charges that she conspired to assassinate the Swedish cartoonist, who lampooned the Prophet Mohammed. David Headley of Chicago admitted a role in planning the Mumbai attacks and pled guilty to an unexecuted conspiracy to assassinate a pair of cartoon publishers in Copenhagen.
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