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@1) Indeed. Fixed.

Dom, you're news on CNN's front page for this area: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/54262890/ns/lo…

@3, that is sweet!

Any chance that the police were sitting on the wide release of the suspect's identity in order to watch him and see if he had accomplices?

@5 Of course they were. Billions of dollars of surveillance programs were aimed at dissecting every phone call, text, tweet, post, and email of every known associate out to the third degree of separation. There are terabytes of data about this guy. This will be hailed in years to come as a success for our anti-terrorism efforts. Unfortunately he's probably just a dick and not part of Al Qaeda on Capital Hill.

@7
Is "Al Qaeda on Capital Hill" considered to be "Core Al Qaeda" or just an "Al Qaeda Franchise?"

@8: Fucking hipsters do like the keffiyeh.

Get over it, already. The piece of shit is in custody with probably enough evidence to put him away for a long time.

Where's the source document? When did investigators learn of his ticket to travel on February 1, and how did they learn of it? If they were investigating him on suspicion that he committed the arson, it seems reasonable for them to have received a warrant to snoop around in his business. Let's see the search warrant.

Realistically, I figure they just called up their Constitution-hating buddies at the NSA and had them pull up anything they had collected on him--all of it unlawfully, just like NSA are unlawfully collecting everything they can about everyone--and have been working on parallel construction to hide the source.

Turkey? Libya? I hear those are terrorist portions of the world.

This just in, his father once fixed a toilet for the 3rd wife of bin Laden's cousin.

@6: Just so you know, Turkey is probably the most secular state in the Middle East. They actually ban civil servants from wearing religious garb or headgear of any kind, so as to keep fundamentalists out of government!
Of course, people trying to pin this arson on Islam shouldn't be expected to know what they're talking about...