The Miami Seven

I thought we were fighting over there so we didn't have to fight them here.

Seven people arrested in Miami discussed attacks on the landmark Sears Tower in Chicago, the FBI building in Miami and other government buildings in a mission "just as good or greater" than September 11, U.S. officials said on Friday.

Actually, despite the fever pitch of the early coverage of this story, even the U.S. attorney general acknowledges the plot, such as it was, never advanced past the planning stage. The headline of the Reuters story spells it out:

Miami men accused of discussing attacks

And the CBS affiliate in Chicago advances the fact that the "Miami Seven" were never a real threat to anyone.

”The plan developed in Florida was never an actual plan, and therefore, nobody was in danger,” said Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communication Executive Director Andrew Velasquez.