Don't worry, it's still in the "reconnaissance in force" phase - unless you're a police officer:
A Massachusetts man is in custody in connection with Tuesday's shooting of a man police say was radicalized by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) propaganda, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues.
Imagine. To peer across the world and know the enemy's secrets. To place our thoughts into the minds of your leaders. Make your teachers teach the true version of history, your soldiers attack on our command. We'll be everywhere at once, more powerful than a whisper, invading your dreams, thinking your thoughts for you while you sleep. We will change you, Dr. Jones, all of you, from the inside. We will turn you into us. And the best part? You won't even know it's happening.
Police led the man, David Wright, out of an Everett home late Tuesday, linking his arrest to the terror investigation of Usaama Rahim.
Just fourteen miles away, investigators say, Rahim had pulled out a knife and waved it at officers in Boston. Moments later, police fired, shooting and killing him. He was under 24-hour surveillance at the time he was killed.
"We believed he was a threat," Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said.
What was your first clue, Commish?
But I guess that's not fair, because the rest of the account has kowtowing to the Islamic Society of Boston (and the Black Klan) written all over it.
Evans says the shooting was caught on nearby surveillance cameras, and the video shows police guns weren't drawn at first.
"And they kept retreating, verbally giving commands to 'drop the weapon, drop the weapon,"' Evans said. "At some point the individual -- proximity came [so] close that the officers were in danger." [emphasis added]
There's something awfully symbolic about that account. Other than the cops shooting Rahim, of course.
And if it had been a throwing knife? Or Rahim had had the foresight to steal a gun or an automatic weapon and, with Mr. Wright, ambush the cops? I guess he "shoulda planned ahead" during the frequent huddles the two homegrown jihadists held laying out their plans to go on a beheading spree across the country:
Sources tell CBS News Rahim and Wright were communicating with each other about attacks in the U.S., which is why Wright was arrested. Authorities continue to search for other people both Rahim and Wright were communicating with, the sources say.
That was the other purpose for the knife, by the way.
Good hunting, "authorities," retreating your way to the apprehension of Rahim and Wright's accomplices. Something tells me you're going to be very busy over the next few months.
Exit note: Rahim's brother is imam of an Oakland mosque, you'll be unsurprised to learn.
UPDATE: Why does this not surprise me? Helps explain why Miss Geller hasn't been able to appear on our radio program:
A man shot and killed by police in Boston on Tuesday was allegedly conspiring with another man to behead police officers and kill the Jewish-American activist Pamela Geller, who had recently organized a Mohammed cartoon competition that was attacked in Texas, CNN reported Wednesday night.
Communications between twenty-six-year-old Usaamah Abdullah Rahim and David Wright indicated they had originally intended to travel to New York to kill Geller, but Rahim on Tuesday changed the plan and decided to go after police officers, according to court documents....
"They targeted me for violating sharia blasphemy laws," Geller said Wednesday on CNN's Out Front. "They mean to kill everyone who doesn't do their bidding and abide by their law voluntarily. This is a showdown for American freedom."
The attacks won't end with her or police officers, Geller said. "This is just the beginning. … Islamic terrorism is here. Now, will the media realize what's at stake and that their heads are next? Or will they continue to target me because they hate my message of freedom?"
That question is as depressingly rhetorical as it sounds.
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