New news today on the remarkable global reach of international terrorism. The FDA has announced the real reason why they want to ban import of drugs from Canada: terrorists might taint the drug supply. And in the New York Times, Bob Herbert notes that Ashcroft has personally intervened to keep a Haitian refugee in detention from being freed on bond, to foil al-Qaeda's dastardly plan to smuggle agents into the United States by teaching them Haitian Creole, and putting them on unseaworthy boats to brave a cordon from the Coast Guard.

So we see the reach of global terrorism: terrorists have managed to involve themselves in everything that Dubya's crew dislikes. Oh, the bastards.

The terrorists, I mean.

(drugs link via Kevin Drum).