One law enforcement officer quoted anonymously by CNN said that the supposed terrorists (six "suspected Islamic radicals) arrested in the Fort Dix, New Jersey, plot were "hardly hard-core terrorists." Another told CNN that they are "not the type that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up." The bunglers took their video plan for an attack on the base to a local electronics store to burn DVD's and one of them asked a Philadelphia police officer about how to get maps of Fort Dix. They were, said the Washington Post, "bungling."

Yet -- of course -- with zero evidence at all, Jody P. Weis of the FBI's local office said that the men arrested "may or may not be affiliated with al-Qaeda." In the coming days, like so many of these alleged terrorist plots, there will be lots of headlines at first, then nothing as it becomes clear that the plotters were just run of the mill criminal wanna-bes.