Our good pal Skippy the Bush Kangeroo takes us to the Buffalo News report that it was President Bush who ordered the arrests of the five alleged members of the Lackawanna purported "sleeper cell" with suspected ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Skippy also has this to say in response to our "Buffalo Eight" post yesterday:

"it looks more and more to me like another dirty bomb case: the govt. needed some good publicity in their 'war on terror,' so they found somebody who talked to somebody who knew somebody who said something that made somebody think somehthing about somebody who might want to blow something up...if they got all the explosives and and the motivation and knew how to do it and nothing was on tv that day..."

"in other words, children, we have entered winston smith's world of thought crimes."

"when the buffalo 5 (as they were when first arrested) were taken into custody, and the next day, the press release said no guns were found, they weren't actually planning anything, i said to myself, it's just another attempt to distract us from the fact that we don't have jobs and there's a huge deficit and both osama bin laden and ken lay are still free men."