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On the one hand, it doesn't really prove that there *are* terrorists who would blow up a plane in the US. It merely shows that the FBI was able to get someone to sell them a missile.
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Right, that's my point. If this is true (and there certainly isn't convincing proof yet) then the FBI has just shown that desparate people will do anything, not that they have captured a dangerous arms dealer. The way it was being played out on the news was that the government has captured a dangerous, experienced arms dealer bent on destroying the USA.
A radio story on NPR said that there is a global problem with the available of cheap Russian missiles and also, more dangerously, USA Stinger missiles. Ironically, the supplies of Stinger missiles to terrorists are coming from Afghanistan, because we gave them Stingers back when Afghanistan was our friend.