Prosecutors said at the pretrial hearing that the nine suspects bought unrestricted chemicals that can be used in making explosives, and downloaded instructions from the Internet that included how to mix the cocktail of agents used to make the bombs used in the deadly 2005 London subway attacks.

Prosecutors allege the nine were devotees of a radical Muslim cleric sympathetic to Osama bin Laden, and struck a pact to launch a terrorist attack because they felt their religion was under attack.

There is a brand new book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything: by Christopher Hitchens. It is a good read on this subject. Even if your a believer in supernatural bronze age sky god tales, you can't really argue that more atrocity is committed in the names of gods of one variety or another, than anything else.

This is a prime example of what happens when you get your information from one source by segregating yourself from society. There are groups like this around the world waiting to make their "statements".

Wow! And just think - the Australian government stopped them without the "USA PATRIOT Act" (or anything similar, as far as I am aware), without a "Department of Homeland Security" and without any Gitmos or Abu Ghraibs. Go figure.