In 2002, the Bush administration boasted that it prosecuted some 62 cases of international terrorism. The reality? 60 of the 62 "international terrorists" turned out to be Middle Eastern students who had cheated on an English proficiency exam. The only other case considered "terrorism" in the traditional sense was that of Daniel Pearle's killer.
Last year, in the summer of 2005, the Bush administration claimed it had prosecuted "over 400" terrorists. But a Washinton Post investigation revealed that was an outright lie: only some 36 individuals were actually prosecuted under the terrorism law. The vast majority of convictions cited by the government as successes in the war on terrorism were actually "relatively minor crimes such as making false statements and violating immigration law -- and had nothing to do with terrorism, the analysis shows. For the entire list, the median sentence was just 11 months." (For a chart breaking down Bush's "400" convictions by crime, click here).
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/21/165738/106_________________________________________________________________________________________
compare with France
Only in Montpellier, so far have 8 "foreign fighters", on their way to Iraq, been arrested, one in possession of explosives. This only one of severeral similar cases in other towns.
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/20012006/5/filiere-irakienne-deux-nouvelles-interpellations-montpellier.html(in French)
this is hardly mentioned in the National news, only local. I can't imagine how the US media would go ballistic if a similar arrest had been made in the US, in let say, a middlesized city of 300 000...
Not to talk about the WH spin...
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