The St. Paul Terrorist -

The St. Paul Terrorist - A bad week for St.Paul terrorists.

Kathleen Soliah just copped a plea for the 1975 murder of Myrna Opsahl during a Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery. Note that the Strib's story doesn't actually name the victim until the seventh paragraph -

And the alleged drugs-for-missiles deal which the FBI recently uncovered apparently centers around a St. Paul resident.

Here's the question: I've read my LeCarre and Ludlum. I've read how intelligence and underground organizations work, when they're serious about both accomplishing their missions and staying alive.

And in no case do the operators involved act like this:

Neighbors said they felt sorry for Zahida Ali, but not for her husband. Coleman and her aunt, 27-year-old Beth Jones, frequently butted heads with Ali over Coleman's barking dogs. The women said Ali called police on them several times, but the problems continued until they came home one day in July to find their puppy, Wobbles, hanged in the garage.

Jones and Coleman said they instantly suspected Ali because of words he reportedly said during an earlier argument over the dogs with a man Coleman was dating.

"(Ali) said, 'You don't know who I am, you don't know who you're messing with,' " Coleman recalled. "He was never friendly. He was ice cold."

One of the rules of being a successful alleged spy, agent, guerrilla or anyone who tries, as Mao said, to be a fish in the hostile sea, is to keep a low profile.

If this is the best Al-Quaeda can do, the President might have an easier time delivering a victory than we thought.

I doubt this is the best they can do, though.

Posted by Mitch at November 8, 2002 04:16 PM