Oh Commander, I mean, Oh Brother, I mean, D'oh

In the age of "preemptive investigations" wherein the FBI targets people who might cause "trouble" at the GOP Convention this August before they actually do anything, doesn't it comfort you to know that we are busy screwing up terrorist investigations?

An entry in the notebook, prosecutors said, contains the name of one of the suspects, Yassin Muhiddin Aref, 34, and lists his address and phone number in Albany. The entry, in Arabic, refers to him as "commander," according to a Defense Department translation.

However, FBI translators now have a copy of the original entry and disagree with the Defense Department, saying the Kurdish phrase actually means "brother."

It is a wonder that satire mags like The Onion stay in business.