OMG WTF OBL

Yesterday, a grand jury charged a Wilkes-Barre man with offering to help al-Qaeda to blow up oil piplines, refineries and the stadium of the Phillies former AAA affiliate, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons. (He’s really angry about the decision the Phils made to drop the club.)

Michael Reynolds, 48, did not have any bombs, biological weapons or al-Qaeda uniforms, but he did post to a Yahoo! messageboard titled OBLcrew.

Of course, after posting on the board asking for someone to help him follow through with his plot, he was contacted by an al-Qaeda operative. The operative was — surprise! — a municipal judge who was attempting to find terrorists online.

Basically, our government has done a bang-up job capturing a man who thought al-Qaeda hung out in Yahoo! chat rooms. But, hey, at least he had some sort of a plan for terrorism, unlike those dudes in Miami.

I’m sure that once we convict the notorious cell leader Michael Reynolds of OBLcrew, the rest of the cells will fall like dominos.

Wilkes-Barre man indicted in terror plot [Inquirer]
OBLCrew [Yahoo! Groups]