By Chuck Hustmyre
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Scant Media Attention
If Zorkot was working alone, the only plan he needed may have been in his head. None of the other lone jihadists already mentioned in this story had any kind of written agenda. Their only plans were to kill as many innocent people as possible.
If the police officers working the streets of Dearborn that night had not responded to the call so quickly and had they not reacted to Zorkot with such decisiveness, Hemlock Park may have been strewn with bodies minutes later.
Police officers arrested Zorkot on Sept. 8, but city officials didn't announce the arrest until Sept. 11. Their excuse for picking that day, of all days, to release information about the fortunate interruption of a potential terrorist attack was that they didn't want to upset the public and risk setting off an anti-Muslim backlash.
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| Mayor John O'Reilly |
"We didn't want this to become more than it is," Mayor O'Reilly was quoted as saying. "There are certain things that the media latches onto, and this would have turned into a story about terrorism. That's not the kind of tone we want to set."
More troubling than the local government's hedging on Zorkot's fairly obvious plan to go on a killing rampage was the media response to his arrest.
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