Israel uncovers al Qaeda linked plot to kill President Bush

CNN:

Israeli authorities have arrested six Arabs suspected of trying to build an al Qaeda-linked cell -- including one person who allegedly asked about targeting President Bush's helicopter.

Shin Bet, Israel's security service, said in a news release that a 24-year-old student of Hebrew University in Jerusalem decided in January to try to attack a helicopter of a senior official landing on a helipad, and took video of the helipad with a cell phone. Bush used that helipad -- near the dormitories at the university's Givat Ram campus -- during a visit in January, it said.

The student, identified as Muhammad Najam, allegedly turned to an Internet forum identified with al Qaeda and asked about the possibility of targeting an aircraft carrying Bush, Shin Bet said.

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Do you think Israel uncovered the plot because it was intercepting communications on an enemy web site? Will Democrats suggest that Najam's privacy rights have been breached? The fact is that the Democrat position on terrorist privacy rights was untenable and enough of them abandoned the Pelosi position to pass the new FISA bill which still goes too far in protecting terrorist rights. Since these guys plans were thwarted they may wind up in a lawfare case that might free them. That would be a mistake.