The SC ‘Splodeydopes: Jihad has reached small-town America

Update: Despite FBI foot-dragging, SC “Pipe Bomb Boys” indicted for terrorism in Tampa

‘Splodeydopes (i.e., homicide bombers) – in South Carolina, of all places? Just after I had finished installing the Breitbart news feed on this blog, I noticed that the feed had served up a news item about two ‘splodeydopes of Middle Eastern extraction having been apprehended in South Carolina with explosive devices. Too little information was available at that time to write a full-fledged blog post, so I posted Explosives found in South Carolina – connection with enemy combatants with the information I had. I hoped that posting even this sketchy information would help to keep everyone focused on this topic, and everyone’s eyes and ears observing their surroundings – especially those in South Carolina who might be in a position to notice something.

As it so often does, the FBI seems to be putting everybody back to sleep rather than on alert. It’s amazing that they were unwilling to acknowledge the obvious signs of terrorist activity, despite the fact that the two men were caught near the closely-guarded Naval Weapons Station Charleston, where nuclear weapons are handled and where enemy combatants have been held.

Plenty of updates have come in since the arrest:

Don’t assume that the South is immune to enemy infiltrators. Last year, I spoke with a gentleman who said that one of the reasons he chose to live in northern Mississippi was that his locale was “not on al Qaeda’s list of top ten thousand targets for attack.” He’s right, of course, and even though I love the American South for its own sake, I also have every reason to believe that the small-town and rural South does offer a better chance of avoiding instant destruction in a terror attack. That said, I caution everyone not to indulge in a false sense of security just because you happen to be living in the American South or in any thinly-populated, small-town or rural area.

Here’s the problem: The bad guys are taking root everywhere, not just in major metropolitan areas. Fact is, an out-of-the-way location can afford them concealment for terrorist training or other evil activities, where John or Jane Doe might not be around to spot anything suspicious. And of course, spotting things that are suspicious or abnormal is exactly where you come in.

But what if this was just an isolated incident? No chance of that. There have already been reports of jihadist recruitment, training, and other activity in small-town America for quite some time now. For example:

The take-home lesson? Always be sure to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity, even if you think you’re in middle of nowhere, because the fact is that there’s no such place as the middle of nowhere!

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