So, S and i are driving somewhere (don't really remember) and i notice a guy taking a video of a barber shop a couple blocks down from our flat. It didn't really hit me as strange, until i saw the same guy still there a few hours later when we were driving back. Near him was a van, what looked to be from a TV station...but still nothing connected...until we heard the news.

For the news story, go to: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/200337_raid19.html?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=25
For our story, read on...

There's not much to tell really...about a dozen men were arrested for bank and immigration fraud. They were under FBI surveillance for a number of months under suspicions of terrorist activity...and the barber shop (a couple blocks from us) was used as a training center for Anti-American propaganda. They were teaching 11-17 year old boys how to fight Americans, using videos and other media by Al-Queda and other such groups.

Ironically, S. has dialogued with a few of them about Christianity vs. Islam. They tried to convert him...it didn't work. Every time we drive by the barber shop we talk about going to eating at the Somalian restaurant below...

For me, it's been exciting...my street has never been on the news this much...