Miss Kelly has an astute post on the way M. Bilal Kaleem, Executive Director of the Boston branch of the Muslim American Society (MAS), has shifted tack when discussing the arrest of local terror suspect Tarek Mehanna. First he took the usual victim line, that this has nothing to do with his own community, nothing to see here, no fault on our part...you know the drill. But Bilal didn't realize the ground had shifted beneath his feet on this one. These guys are too entwined in the local Muslim community at too high a level for too long to pretend that there wasn't something with that very community that at the very least allowed them to fester.

Someone must have noted that that line wasn't going to play this time, so a day later the message changed to "...Bay State Muslims should help 'root out' any radicals in their midst..."

Read Kelly's post here: What Made Bilal Kaleem Change His Mind?

Also, see the story of escaped co-conspirator Ahmad Abou Samra. Very important: "Masood Played a Key Role in Shaping Abou Samra's turn..."