The manager of Denny's Restaurant in Avon, Colorado (on I-70, past Vail, just before Eagle) is certain that two of the seven most wanted terrorists stopped in for salads Wednesday night. He says they were acting rude and obnoxious. They told him they were Iranian and driving from New York to the West coast. The manager says he had difficulty getting the FBI interested in his sighting.

We're not suprised. After Timothy McVeigh's photo and perp walk were published following the OKC bombing, there were hundreds of reports of sightings of him around Oklahoma City on the days leading up to the bombing. All of them were subsequently discredited.

Also, the al-Qaeda terrorists from 9/11 who came to this country in the months prior to the attacks reportedly were polite and obviously trained to avoid calling attention to themselves. These guys don't seem to fit the terrorist profile--only a Middle Eastern one. Cross-racial identification is a particular problem in eyewitness identifications.

How wise is it to tie up FBI agents with phone calls from anxious citizens instead of having them coordinate with Homeland Security and intelligence agencies to track the terrorists down and find them on their own? America's Most Wanted really is just a tv show, even if they occasionally get their suspect.