Sometimes you just need to move on. During the silly summer of 2006, one moment of comic relief came when the feds did a major bust of an alleged terror cell, which turned out to be a group of guys camping out in a warehouse wearing ninja gear and gathering around a charismatic or schizophrenic leader who, as Paul Kiel put it at the time, they looked to for “religious leadership, karate instruction and contracting work.” As I put it at the time, the FBI rolled up the group “in such preliminary stages of launching their jihad that they hadn’t yet set aside time to become Muslims.”
Now it seems the DOJ has flubbed their second attempt to convict the guys. A second mistrial.
