Jihadis torched the most valuable library in the history of mankind when they first took control of Alexandria in Egypt. It contained translations of ancient artifacts, stuff from ancient aliens, original holy manuscripts, most of what we have been able to piece together since then had to be put together from fragments and memories of people who had been educated there and survived the mass executions. It was the main archive repository of the Roman Empire, but they had managed to salvage rather than destroy the main archive libraries of previous empires.

It would be the equivalent to torching the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Museum, both of which the Jihadis would happily do.

Some of the Babylonian libraries and museums looted during the war, but at least the stuff is still around somewhere. Most people think it has ended up in private collections of wealthy individuals and will eventually resurface elsewhere relatively locally. At least the stuff was not being outright destroyed.

As for the three "Terrorists" in NY, I have been brushing up on the education about the IS and the current threat level. It is not quite what we thought it was, but in the case of those three, they fit the bill, just the FBI got to them in time. Problem is you can't afford to run elaborate entrapment or death squad stuff on every single one who fits that bill.

Around there the feds are all over a couple mosques which gained credibility among the more "authentic" Muslims. Apparently the main Imam at one of them had kind of a standard talk he does with the Jihadi minded, that they ought to bet getting plane tickets and going somewhere else if that's what they want to do.

On the authentic side, which I strongly suspect is at the hands of some CIA operatives, if they wanna go, then it gets facilitated that they get the fuck out of dodge, make a declaration once overseas which will authenticate their jihad status, and once that's done, its game on, but they are allowed to go.

The Justice Department mainly just wants to fill prison space. Sure, they will indulge individual agents here and there with a kill or two as a rite of passage, but every five criminals killed costs the Justice Department one well paid career level job to hand out to cronies. They really don't want to get too strong into the bodycount business, that's the military job.

By the time anything gets down to the Militia job, its because all hell broke loose and there was a defacto capitulation of the government (like in parts of the Middle East).

The FBI, I don't know what their point is supposed to be, but I can understand that once they have become aware of someone having the desire to pull off a terrorist plot, it's not like it's their duty to let it happen either.

Hence, I stand by the policy on this of holding off, holding the safe zones, let those fuckers have at it for a while and sort out what the sides are without jumping in with automatic blame going one way or the other.

For a lot of obvious reasons, the Jihadis have become an enemy. The feds, claiming to be our rulers and demanding unilateral disarmament from a lot of us, plus frequently lying to us, that's kind of into abdication of the legitimacy of authority turf, but while it plays footsie with enemy turf, it's not quite there in the face of this Jihadi thing.

The other thing about trying to keep a lid on anyone going pogrom happy is dipshits like that guy who shot up a Sikh temple. What recon I have managed to do on supposed "jihad training camps in the US" sifted out as bullshit right at the satellite recon level. Some of the properties listed are simply not large enough to be training facilities.