OK, this really puts the nail in the coffin of any claims that those four guys arrested last night in connection with a plot to bomb two New York synagogues were some kind of highly dangerous terror cell.
Calling the men “amateurs every step of the way,” the AP reports:
Relatives said the defendants were down-on-their-luck men who worked at places like Wal-Mart, a landscaping company and a warehouse when they weren’t behind bars. Payen’s lawyer said he was “intellectually challenged” and on medication for schizophrenia. Marilyn Reader said he has “a very low borderline” IQ.
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Payen, 27, did time for attempted assault — in 2002, he and others fired a BB gun out an SUV window, hitting two people in the head. He snatched purses from two women later the same day, said state Division of Parole spokeswoman Heather Groll.
So: An intellectually-challenged schizophrenic BB-gun-shooting purse-snatcher, and a stoner ringleader.
“It’s hard to envision a more chilling plot,” said assistant U.S. attorney Eric Snyder.
It is? We’d sure hate to see what Snyder would say about al Qeada.
