Alleged Terrorist Arrest in Springfield

He converted while in prison. No relationship to the NY alleged Al Qaeda cell arrests, or the Dallas attempted bombings. How reassuring.

Good Lord, I just take a break to watch Leno and come back to this. Drudge headers:

FBI arrests Jordanian for downtown Dallas bomb plot...
Illinois man charged in plot to bomb federal offices...
Terror suspects accused of targeting Marine base in Quantico...
Men vanish after taking photos of Philly subway system...
Police use piercing noise, pepper spray as G20 protest slides out of control...

Video...

Too much news.

More. Tribune ( I know it's sick that I isolate this quote--the neighbors always crack me up.):

Landlord Douglas Gross said he had been in Finton's apartment recently to check for cockroaches and had noticed nothing unusual.

"I come from Los Angeles and you expect something like this there, but here, in the middle of Illinois?" he said. "I never had any problems with him -- he always paid the rent."

Sun Times:

Last February, Finton began meeting with an undercover FBI agent posing as a “low level al-Queda operative” and over a period of months discussed bombing locations in the U.S., including the Paul Findley Federal Building and Courthouse in downtown Springfield, prosecutors said.

Finton allegedly conducted surveillance on the courthouse and advocated detonating a car bomb. He is alleged to have discussed making the nearby office of U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) a secondary target.

ABC7.

P.S. Hey Barack? ...don't close Gitmo.

..OK, good....Greg Craig gets the boot. Good...but no, he'll probably get a dipomatic post. (Liberals reward failure once again.)

Three administration officials said they expect Craig to leave his current post in the near future, and one said he is on the short list for a seat on the bench or a diplomatic position. Craig has long made clear his desire to be involved in foreign policy, but he declined to comment on his plans.

Better that than the bench.