Tall Tales

Visually, this story had everything.

It had America’s tallest

skyscraper…

(…the photos

of which

are still choking

the newswire.)

It had

dark-skinned

perpetrators.

It had the bad guys

on surveillance video.

It had views

of the hideout

through a real

“peephole!”

It had the local media…

and the nation media

on the scene.

It had the Attorney General

assuring us that the day

had been saved.

It had

ABSOLUTELY

everything.

Except a credible threat.

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(image 1:  Jeff Haynes/AFP/File.  April 2005.  Chicago.  Via YahooNews.  image 2: image: AFP/DOJ.  June 23, 2006.  Via YahooNews.  image 3 and 4:  Department of Justice/Handout/Reuters.  Miami.  23, 2006.  Via YahooNews.  image 5: Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty.  Miami.  June 23, 2006.  Via YahooNews.  image 6 and 7: Mitchell Zachs/AP.  Miami. June 22, 2006. Via YahooNews.  image 8: Yuri Gripas/Reuters. Washington June 23, 2006. Via YahooNews.)