Allah points out that New Jersey has two things going for it as a magnet for jihadists: A) Easy access to New York, B) It’s the second-highest Muslim populated state by percentage, so it’s easy to blend in. But this goes far, far beyond al Qaeda: The FBI believes every major terror network in the world has at least one contact there.

This is the first time since the 9/11 attacks that FBI counterterror officials have revealed an al-Qaida presence in North Jersey…

“There are people in your county who are affiliated with known al-Qaida members overseas,” said Jack Jupin, the FBI agent who heads the counterterror squad for Bergen County…

Sometimes, [FBI agent Kevin Cruise] said, counterterror agents “disrupt” these North Jersey residents with al-Qaida ties.

Cruise declined to describe any case in detail. But in general, such disruption methods ranged from outright deportations to quiet visits by FBI agents in which suspected terrorists are told their activities are being monitored…

Task force investigators have discovered that every major terrorist group in the world, including Hamas and Hezbollah, has at least one North Jersey contact. The lone exception is Afghanistan’s ultra-fundamentalist sect, the Taliban.

One has to question why the FBI is so, er, vocal about this. This wasn’t an investigative report, it was compiled with quotes from top FBI agents themselves. All of a sudden, for the first time since 9/11, the FBI is going public that there are al Qaeda operatives in NJ? Why? And the CIA apparently knows about it too. What is there to gain by letting operatives know they’re being monitored?